“This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.” YearsMeanStatesLastsUnitedMillionsUnited StatesBuildingCreatingCapableBillionsAdministrationOppositionLast YearSheerScenariosIdentifyingTrackingOrwellianAlarmists Author:William Safire
“A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.” MenArtPoliticianCreatingIllusionMen And WomenAdvantageDollarsRewardsBillionsWinnerManipulationTaxpayersCampaigningComparative Advantage Author:John Stossel
“There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.” EnoughFactsShowsMovingEnergyPayStudyCostCreatingDollarsCleanBillionsSavedSavingDietsSavingsRenewable EnergyClean Energy Author:Jill Stein
“The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world; the prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States; we do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada; an increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesJobsThreeEnergyUnitedNumbersHalfCompanySituationUnited StatesInvolvedCreatingDirectIndependenceTradeDollarsInvestmentPopulationEnvyBillionsEnormousPeacefulBordersCanadaFriendlyMexicoMexicanWithin ReachGeopoliticalCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceCanada And The United States Author:Alan Bersin
“The stock market has gone up and if you are stock picking, that's fine, you may do a bit better than the market. But if you want to play in another game where you can get rapid increases of value and so on and so forth, this apparently has become the new parlour game, to invest in these companies and many their cases, the private equity that has been piling in onto of the venture capital is creating the unicorn, in other words the company with the $1 billion valuation.” IfsWantMayHas BeensPlayValuesGamesBitsCompanyCasesGoneFineCreatingIncreaseBillionsVentureEquityRapidsUnicornValuationVenture CapitalPrivate Equity Author:Kevin Kinsella
“SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.” YearsMeanGovernmentCreatingBillionsSavingRealisticMonopoly Author:Elon Musk