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Make fun of him all you want but once I saw no bid contract I knew what that meant, Krasnov is getting a cut out of ruining the reflecting pool. To make matters worse he will be getting a cut from trying to fix the mess he created.
Krasnov is making money, taxpayers not so much.
Saw an article about our deficit, the government spent 628 billion dollars and took in 335 billion in taxes. To balance the budget Krasnov will have to double our taxes, or...... he has stated he plans to balance the budget by simply printing more money, no way are Republicans going to cut back on spending unless it's something like abolishing Medicaid.
usonian
(27,082 posts)He's falling apart mentally and physically, and you can't take it with you.
Pharaohs who owned everything are having their graves robbed.
I guess the point is really the Silicon Valley saying "He who dies with the most toys wins"
Money serves no useful purpose for him. It's just a symbol, and as always, someone can and will always have more symbols in their psychic wallet than you. Interesting discussion by David Loy in "Money, Sex, War, Karma"
Wealth is (almost) all in the mind, healthy or unhealthy. What's wealth? A bunch of numbers on a spreadsheet and yachts that are, as they say "Holes in the water that you pour money into" OR "Treasures of the Heart" as Buddhist scholar Nichiren observed?

Money is the God of these heartless, empty shells.
Famous story
Kurt Vonnegut and his friend and fellow author, Joseph Heller, went to a party at a billionaires mansion in Shelter Island, New York.
They walked in and found themselves in a room filled with artwork by the likes of Monet and Picasso, like an art gallery.
Vonnegut turned to Heller and asked, How does it make you feel that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel, Catch-22, earned in its entire history?
Heller replied, Yeah, but I have something he doesnt have. I have enough.
orthoclad
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Looking over my shoulder for what Thiel and Mucks are up to next.