“You know, I can’t stand all these ideas people have. Some fool or madman or some villain in a frenzy slaps your face and you’re dishonoured for the rest of your life and can’t wipe it out except in blood, or unless he goes down on his knees and begs for pardon. It’s absurd I think, a sort of slavery.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
@WallStreetApes No, we don’t! Unless businesses are putting mercury, or arsenic in your food, let people buy want they want. How come the conversion is always, “we need to regulate sugary foods,” and not “we need to encourage people to choose healthier alternatives.”
@uncover_ai Maybe the problem isn’t that Government doesn’t have Ai to read your building permit application, but that government rules are so numerous and convoluted you need an Ai just to understand what it is your government wants.
XI–XX. Flout petitions with contempt. Burden provinces with trade restraints for your merchants’ gain while ignoring their economic contributions. Restrict their manufacturing, harass them with regulations, and, when they resist, employ military force. Thus, a great empire may be reduced to a small one.
V. Appoint governors and judges who are corrupt, rapacious, ignorant, or insolent. Such officers will alienate the people and impress upon them the true nature of your government.
VI–X. When the injured petition for redress, delay justice, impose enormous costs, and rule in favor of oppressors. Reward corrupt officials with pensions. Reject voluntary colonial contributions in wartime; impose novel taxes instead, declaring your power unlimited.
🚨 Asante Health CEO Tom Gessel blames Oregon Policies for Business Decline:
Southern Oregon’s largest employer and community safety-net hospital system is in crisis.
$12 million loss in March alone. $16 million operating loss in first half of FY. Projected $50 million shortfall in 2027.
Commercial insurance now covers only 14% of patients; over 75% rely on government payers that reimburse below cost.
More than 300 non-clinical positions to be eliminated. Inpatient and OB services consolidating from Ashland to Medford.
Full CEO letter here: https://t.co/E0EP50ZGIb
Oregon is experiencing a wave of dying or moving businesses due to leftist policies. It comes at the worst possible time as Oregon is one of the most indebted states in the country. Unless radical change occurs, Oregon can expect to see large businesses continue to leave, and Oregon will go bankrupt!
Lex Luther:
Happens to find a piece of Superman’s dna, spends billions to make himself a clone of Superman to kill Superman, Manages to make a perfect clone of Superman, down to his powers and facial features.
Somehow, also Lex Luther:
Can’t figure out Superman’s secret identity. 🤷♂️