John S. Howard

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[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

To me, this is the argument against minimum wage and for knowing one's value. Love it!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed my lawn mowed. I asked an American for the name of a company.

He said, "Get a kid."

A kid. Not a service. A child.

I asked which kid.

"Any of 'em."

I asked where one obtains a kid. There is no directory. There is no listing.

He said, "Ask around."

I asked around. Two days later a fourteen year old named Cody was standing on my porch.

He did not bring a mower. Nobody told me this part. The kid uses your mower and your gas. He brings arms.

I asked his rate.

He said, "Whatever."

Whatever. A negotiation had opened and the other party declined to attend.

A blade drawn against no opponent must be returned to the sheath in silence.

I put my wallet away.

So I conducted research. I asked four adults what the correct amount was.

Four numbers. Twenty. Forty. Twenty five. One man said he gave a kid fifty once and could not remember why.

There is no rate. There has never been a rate. An entire national labor market runs with no published price and every participant is somehow satisfied.

I looked up the state minimum wage. I timed the work. I arrived at a defensible figure and I paid it.

My neighbor watched this from his driveway.

Later he came over and told me, kindly, that I had underpaid.

I said the amount exceeded the legal minimum.

He said, "Yeah, but he's a kid."

THE PRICE IS NOT THE PRICE. THE PRICE IS THE PRICE PLUS SOMETHING NO MAN ON THIS STREET WILL SAY OUT LOUD.

So I corrected. I overcorrected. Sixty dollars for forty minutes.

The same neighbor came back over.

"Alright. Don't ruin him."

There is a floor and there is a ceiling. Neither is written anywhere. Both are enforced by men standing in driveways with their arms folded.

The samurai who cannot read the room dies in the room.

I have been dying in this room since June.

Cody was thirsty. I did not offer him water, because he had not asked, and a warrior does not name another warrior's weakness.

My wife told me he is fourteen and it is ninety one degrees. I now leave a bottle on the step where he can take it without being seen taking it.

I asked my neighbor why the whole street does this. Why grown men pay a boy more than the work is worth and then pretend not to have noticed.

He said, "You're not buying a lawn."

Then he went inside, because apparently that was a complete explanation.

Cody has cut my grass eleven times. He is saving for a truck. I know the exact figure because he told me, unprompted, in August, sweating, holding my own mower.

Last week a family moved in three houses down. The man came over and asked if I knew anybody who cuts grass.

I said, "I got a kid."

I heard what that sounded like. I did not correct it.

He is nine hundred dollars from the truck.

A mountain is not asked to be smaller. A mountain is walked around, at night, quietly, by a man with a truck payment he intends to make on someone else's behalf.

I have started mentioning him to people.

[Jeremy A. Boyer 🎹 @JABsMusic]

The funniest skit SNL has done in over a decade and it’s not even close!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Robin Williams’ emotional tribute to the American Flag leaves an entire stadium speechless — then in tears.

Is there a single Hollywood star who would give this performance today?

Total Patriot.

RIP Legend 🇺🇸

[Bruno Souza @brunosouzasc]

Elon Musk criou, em um único dia, 4.400 novos milionários.

Quase 400 deles ultrapassaram os US$ 100 milhões.

Não são banqueiros nem investidores de risco. São funcionários da SpaceX: soldadores, técnicos, mecânicos e até funcionários da cantina. Durante vinte anos, a empresa pagou gente de todos os níveis com ações, não só com salário alto. Quem produziu colheu.

Juan Hernandez, imigrante mexicano, aceitou um emprego de soldador por US$ 28 a hora em 2015, sem nem saber direito o que era a SpaceX. Recebeu uma pequena participação de US$ 10 mil e pôde comprar mais por desconto em folha. Hoje sua fatia vale US$ 880 mil.

Trevor Hise ignorou os conselhos dos pais para pegar um emprego “seguro” na General Electric. Escolheu a SpaceX, ficou 12 anos e acumulou mais de 100 mil ações. Ao preço da listagem, são US$ 13,5 milhões. Aos 37 anos, ele já pode se aposentar. Palavras dele: “A magnitude disso é ridícula.”

O detalhe mais eloquente veio antes mesmo da abertura de capital: mais de 100 funcionários se uniram discretamente para contratar uma gestora de fortunas capaz de cuidar de até US$ 5 bilhões. Muitos nunca tinham precisado de wealth manager na vida.

Há décadas os IPOs de empresas de tecnologia enriquecem programadores. Desta vez, o dinheiro chegou ao chão de fábrica. Isso é capitalismo de verdade: quem arrisca, quem trabalha e quem entrega valor colhe frutos proporcionais.

A esquerda odeia esse tipo de história. Porque ela prova que a verdadeira ascensão social não vem de dividir a miséria alheia, mas de criar riqueza que eleva quem tem coragem de construir.

[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

@RepJasmine So...how many choices do you have? Yes? No? HELL NO!?

[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

@sippy_eleven @zach_moore27 @Mister_Root Not an alum; not sure he ever made it to class. Helluva basketball player!

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

🏌️🏆 PGA Championship winner, Aaron Rai on why he uses iron covers: “I grew up in very much a working-class family, and golf has always been a very expensive game. I started from the age of 4 years old, and my dad used to pay for the equipment, pay for my memberships, my entry fees. And it wasn't money that we really had, to be honest, but he'd always buy me the best clubs.

When I was about seven or eight years old, (my dad) bought me a set of Titleist 690 MBs, and they were like 800-1,000 pounds back then, just for a set of clubs for a kid. I cherished them. When we used to go out and practice, he used to clean every single groove afterward with a pin and with baby oil.

Although on the PGA Tour, we get given equipment, and we get given everything that we need, it's more out of principle. The value of not losing perspective of what I have and where I am. The covers are going to stay, I'm sorry."

[Patricia 🇺🇸 @1109Patricia]

These kids came up with a unique performance for their school Talent Show doing Synchronized “Air Swimming!”

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Joe Rogan reveals President Trump IMMEDIATELY offered him FDA approval for a psychedelic treatment in a text chain

Because the data was SO CONVINCING and STUNNING

"I wanna tell everybody how this happened. I send President Trump some information."

"With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction. With two doses, it's more than 90%. I sent him that information."

"The text message came back, sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let's do it. It was literally that quick!"

"For 56 years, we've lived under those terrible conditions. We're free of that now."

"We're free of that now, thanks to all these people that you see next to me, and thanks to President Trump!" — @joerogan

[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

RILEY McCUSKER!!! GO GATORS!!

[Amanda Brooks @BrooksAD]

Leading the way on bars after the first @NCAA_Gymnastics semifinal is @GatorsGym's @mccusker_riley scoring a 9.9875

Here's a look at her dismount from @4DReplay

📺: ESPN2 | #NCAAWGym

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

🏆 “The greatest golfers in the world don’t want a jacket. They want another one.

— Nike releases their winning Rory McIlroy ad campaign ✔️

[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

@MeetThePress He is terrible! Instead of, "End" the war, let's "WIN" the conflict.

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

Matt Fitzpatrick congratulates the Young family despite coming up one shot short ❤️

[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

While Congress has authorized military force four times in the last eighty years, the last time Congress declared war was 1942.

[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

Iran funded Hamas. Iran funded Hezbollah. Iran funded the attacks on American soldiers. Iran was 90 days away from a nuclear weapon.

Check out THEN and NOW

https://t.co/urO1nZdWhT

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

In one of the most iconic moments in State of the Union history, Trump checkmated every Democrat by asking Congress to stand if they agree: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

The Democrats stayed seated.

[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

@just_mindy Come on! You can be an American! Let's kick some ass!

[John S. Howard @JohnSHoward1]

@Yonasmom @jackunheard @AmericanwomanU1 He did!

[Jack @jackunheard]

Holy smokes. This might be the most American thing I've ever seen.

Congrats to these guys 🇺🇸

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

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