A $300M yacht isn't money set on fire. It's a vast act of production. Those vessels take 3 to 4 years to build and employ hundreds: naval architects, marine engineers, welders, electricians, carpenters, interior craftsmen, plus the shipyard and the entire supply chain feeding it. Then a permanent crew of dozens, dockworkers, mechanics, and provisioners for the life of the ship. The "obscene" yacht is a payroll for hundreds of skilled workers who chose that trade freely.
But notice the con you're really running. You don't want those workers employed. You want the Meta workers envious. The yacht and the layoffs have nothing to do with each other, except in the resentment you're trying to manufacture.
Now the layoffs themselves. A company cuts staff when it must reduce costs or correct over-hiring, which is exactly how a business stays alive to employ anyone at all. And what drives costs up? The taxes, mandates, and regulations you demand every single day. You spend your career making it more expensive to employ Americans, then feign shock when employing Americans gets more expensive.
You don't grasp that wealth is produced, not seized from a pile. So you treat one man's success as another's loss. It isn't. The yacht builder, the Meta engineer, and Zuckerberg can all prosper at once, in a system you'd dismantle for the pleasure of watching the rich brought low.
Envy is not an economic policy but it is apparently all @SenWarren and her socialist allies know.
Loren J. Sciurba, the Treasury Inspector General who authored this report, donated to Kamala Harris and has a history of Democrat campaign contributions.
He has worked in the IG’s office for the last 17 years.
If he admits that @elonmusk and @DOGE were correct—which they are—it means he has failed in his job for the last 17 years.
Are you aware Social Security is supposed to be a pay in/get paid out when you retire system?
You’re describing wealth redistribution which is not the law. You should talk to the politicians who blew the Social Security trust fund giving people free stuff.
As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.
A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.
This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.
In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.
But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”
British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?
We genuinely do not understand this.
Trump needs to bomb the IRGC into UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
Not bomb them into accepting a deal which they will 100% break after he leaves office.
Take the silk gloves off, Mr President.
It is absolutely wrong to refer to the AMA as America’s physicians. There are hardly any active practicing physicians who belong to the AMA. They say they have 350,00 members because they consider all 300,000+ students and residents as members of the AMA.
I can tell you from having a worked there that they don’t even tell their own employees how many actual members they have it’s embarrassingly small. I also know because I used to manage the CME portfolio that they provide very few CME credits for their members – another indicator of how small their membership is. When I was there they would issue about 20 to 30,000 CME credits per year which almost all came from JAMA. Less than 10% of their CME came from AMA activities. This is in contrast hundreds of thousands or millions of credits given by other by other organizations that actually do have very large memberships
When I first went to work there I was shown a poll that showed 70% of physicians have a unfavorable view of the AMA.
2/3 of their income comes from their ownership of CPT and HHS mandates that CPT be used for billing. Without CPT there would be no AMA.
I had an awful experience working there as some of you might know.
The physician community should absolutely not let the AMA present themselves as representing American medicine