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Position Pay Incentives Can Backfire

I was nosey and decided to read this article and see if I agree with it. I look to the throughput of people and machinery to gauge if the plan and people can satisfy the requirements. Plans are not ironclad and may need to be changed to meet what people can do in a setting. […]

President Donald Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible

U.S. President Donald Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning: Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds . […]

International Travel with Trump as the President

At this particular point in time, I would forestall any travel to Europe for work or vacation. My German cohorts were always somewhat cautious around myself and others. Herr Trump and his band of sycophants have caused serious damage to the US imagine and relationship. The same as Trump, they would be suspicious. They will […]

Memorial Day 2025: “that these dead shall not have died in vain”

by New Deal democrat From Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “… [O]ur fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can […]

Who Pays for Postal Privatization?

Who Would Pay the Biggest Price for Postal Privatization? – by Sarah Anderson Institute for Policy Studies as featured at Save the Post Office (Steve Hutkins) During his first term, President Trump appointed a task force on the future of the Postal Service that included the Treasury Secretary and the Directors of the Office of Management and […]

“tiny inventions that make our world work”

“Nuts & Bolts” David Zetland The one-handed economist Book Review: I bought this 2023 book by Roma Agrawal after hearing her interviewed on a podcast. I was really excited to read about “tiny inventions that make our world work,” but I was ultimately disappointed. My main complaint is with Agrawal’s theme of (a) telling stories about how […]