Making It Easier Since Early This Morning

I realize that Google's multi-member blog can be confusing simply because they put the names of the authors at the very bottom of the articles. And since I'm always trying to make things easier, I've decided to make everything a bit easier. From now on anything written by me will be in its traditional color. However all posts by Dave or Terr, under the name TheDiscountedMonkeys will be highlighted in blue. Hopefully that clears up any undue difficulties.

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A Thought

Simple people see things in simple ways with simple solutions. Complex people see things in complex ways and with complex solutions. Neither are inherently wrong or right. They just are.

My Last

My previous post was found as a blank page in draft form this evening. I found the existence of it to be rather poetic. So I published it blank as is over a year later. Seems fitting to be honest.

Reagan, Deregulation, and the Fruit It Now Bears

President Reagan had an idea about how the world should run. He deregulated Big Business. That is, he removed the restrictions put in place that kept companies from cheating. He removed, primarily economic oversight. He said that it was unAmerican that in this capitalist society that such oversight, such restrictions should exist. To him, these concepts flew in the face of that illusive, figmentary idea we like to call freedom. He wanted Big Business to have the freedom to do what it will and believed that in doing so, said companies would check themselves. They would check themselves because it was in their best economic interest to do so. Yet, what he didn't realize is that what was in the best interest of Corporate America could be unknown to Corporate America itself! That Big Business could be akin to a compulsive gambler who as they fall further and further into the hole panic and begin making riskier and riskier bets, thus then subjecting themselves to even more debt ...

Suspension of Disbelief

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