William J Corley @ManagementBill

Governor DeSantis and Governor Pritzker each just signed their 8th state budgets. The contrast couldn't be starker. And the lesson is that who you elect matters. Change out the politicians and you get different policies. For reference, Florida is 1.8x more populous than IL, 23.37m people compared to 12.71m people. Now consider these points: 1. FL general revenue budget is $52B, IL is $56B. Because state's have different ways of budgeting, lookimg at the total FY27 budgets, FL =$117B, IL=$130B. This doesn't make sense. 2. Pritzker advocated for and signed the largest budget in state history this year and in previous years. DeSantis has lowered the amount spent every year for the last four years and vetoed over $10B in spending during his time in office. Pritzker's budget is up $16B since he took office. 3. Pritzker brags about his credit upgrades, but IL has the worst state credit rating, FL has the best credit rating. 4. FL has a rainy day fund of $18B. IL rainy day fund is $2B. 5. FL is pushing $78B in road programs and moving planned projects ahead 5-15 years. IL can't even get projects planned, permitted and built in a timely manner, so many projects are left undone and money sits in an account collecting interest. And now that surplus interest is being sent to the CTA to bail them out. 6. DeSantis has given back over $9B in taxes. Pritzker has raised taxes every year for a total of over $77B according to IPI. 9. FL is giving $5,000 signing bonuses for police officers. IL politicians want to defund the police. 10. FL is on the cusp of eliminating property taxes for 60% of home owners and they have no state income tax. IL has the highest property taxes, plus individial income and estate taxes, high corporate taxes, and there's been no attempt to meaningfully lower property taxes. Yes, elections have consequences. But, it can all ve reversed. DeSantis barely got elected 8 years ago. Your vote matters.

@ChicagosMayor Really, you are way off. Our education system in particular your funding mechanism of CTU , can’t remedially educate. Add to that your policies drive out small medium and big businesses reducing jobs further.

@MaristHSalumni Great people all the Rendermans are.

“One of the miracles of faith is the liberals’ belief that criminals will stop being armed if we ban guns. We have already banned crime and that doesn’t stop them from committing it.” — Thomas Sowell

The socialist often wants the benefits of ownership without actually owning anything. They want the returns from investment without making the investment, the rewards without risking losses, and the gains without tying up their own capital. A shareholder puts money at risk with no guarantee of success. If the company fails, the shareholder loses. If it succeeds, the shareholder gains. The socialist looks at the gain and calls it exploitation while ignoring the risk that made the gain possible in the first place. They want the upside of owning stock without buying stock, the profits without the risk, and the rewards without the responsibility.

“In the academic world, diversity means black leftists, white leftists, female leftists, and Hispanic leftists. Demographic diversity conceals ideological conformity.” - Thomas Sowell Peter Thiel made the same diagnosis in 1996. He watched universities celebrate racial and gender diversity while systematically stamping out diversity of thought. His point was simple. A campus full of people who look different but think alike is not diverse, it’s just ideological monopoly wearing a costume. Sowell and Thiel were describing the same phenomenon from different angles. Multiculturalism and “diversity” were never the end goal. They were the instrument. The real objective has always been the capture of institutions, universities, corporations, government, culture, and the enforcement of one narrow worldview. Demographic checkboxes were the most effective tool available to achieve that. Once the institutions were staffed and policed by people who already agreed on the fundamentals, dissent became “hate,” disagreement became “harm,” and the old liberal commitment to open inquiry quietly died. The diversity bureaucracy eventually succeeded at what it was actually designed to do. So “the next time some academics tell you how important ‘diversity’ is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.” - Thomas Sowell

Pritzker claims Trump tore down the ballroom to build a “gold-laden one in his image” costing taxpayers $300 million. Reality: The White House never had a proper ballroom. Trump is building a new one, privately funded. Not one dime of taxpayer money. Meanwhile in Illinois under Pritzker: $2.5+ BILLION on migrants and the highest property taxes in America. Sit this one out, Pritzker.🔥🇺🇸 Clip from @GovPritzker

It is not balanced. You are counting on a $200 million social media tax that will be challenged in court. You slighted pensions by over $5 billion. Your digital media tax will also be challenged in court. And even if it were considered balanced, it only happened with $800 million in tax increases.

Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker

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Today, I am proud to sign Illinois' eighth consecutive balanced budget — one that lowers costs for everyday Illinoisans, protects our state's fiscal health, and continues our economic progress. Responsible budgeting is no longer the exception in our state; it's the rule.

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@SenWarren So says you , who creates no jobs, only obstacles to growth, and who lives off the dole of taxpayers,

Yes , yes yes , too much government

Taya Bass @travelingflying

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Elon Musk:”You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own. And what does it get spent on? A bunch of stuff you don’t even agree with. That’s why we need to reduce the size of government, spend less money and let the people keep

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Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW

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“The government is too big. It’s too intrusive. It restricts what we can do. It’s becoming our master instead of our servant.” — Milton Friedman

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Elon Musk is the modern day John D. Rockerfeller. Thomas Sowell: "When Rockerfeller became a multi-billionaire, progressives were livid. They did not see the value he was providing to people by reducing the cost of oil to a fraction of what it is used to be by shipping it in tank cars making it cheaper to sell at a lower price, benefitting millions of Americans. That's how he became a multi-billionaire." You can make the same correlation with PayPal, Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX etc. and becoming a trillionaire.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

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This is manufacturing leadership.

Radosław Poszwiński @bogdan607

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Elon Musk o tym, dlaczego spał na podłodze fabryki Tesli przez 3 lata . W Polsce tego nie rozumieją „Mieszkałem w fabryce w Fremont i tej w Nevadzie przez trzy lata z rzędu. To było moje główne miejsce zamieszkania. Nie żartuję. Serio. Spałem na kanapie, a w pewnym momencie w

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The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀

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This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽 My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes. “Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.” “And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.” “The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.” “The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.” “How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?” “Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

Out of 16.4 million Americans who served in WWII, only about 40,000 are still alive. They’re dying at a rate of ~100 per day. These are the heroes who saved the world from tyranny. Find one. Thank one. Listen to their stories. While you still can.

“Anything government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost. If government spends $6,000 per child, then I have every confidence that a private competitive enterprise can provide better schooling for $3,000 per child.” — Milton Friedman

@factcheckdotorg How do you know, unless you know how much fraud is ??