First Principle Insight #11
When you go to a political rally and you hear the person that you are supporting, they happen to talk and persuade people to them by telling us the things we want to hear. But then when you watch them go into office you wonder why or how they can grow their portfolio so high in a short amount of time. It is easy really when they have bills written then have their staff and donors help them write the bills where they know every work around cause they designed it like that.
A lot of the times what they will do is make the bill so radical on both sides where the bill will have certain things taken out but when those things are taken out they are have in that part the key things that went along with other parts of the bill to where it then makes loopholes that they will go through to shield themselves and it will hurt the American people. Should it not be demanded that the way they talk to their voters be the same way the bills are written. Or that you can’t introduce a 2,000 page bill then make it rushed through Congress.
You have a lot of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) or James Lankford(R) who can state that they do not have a high cash value based on their age and what they did before getting into the House. But then you have to look at what they are able to go to, private jet between rallies, high priced dinners or lavish parties. Look at the private jets which are around $9,000-$15,000 per hour in the air and that is not even all the cost. Then on average for their rallies and back and forth to Washington D.C. for campaigning season are around 150–300 hours in the air for each election. See the real trade off for these politicians is they are able to enter an ultra-wealthy lifestyle and then sell book deals that are backed by loopholes they add in for their donors. When was this all part of public service that they state all the time that they are just public servants.
Then we have Project Meridian which is a joke in itself, you have two CEO’s who get to come in and tell our military what they need to do when these two also own companies that have contracts with the military. When you have Elon Musk talking down at our military saying they hide things when any nation’s military will have classified information that they keep hidden especially from profit seeking CEO’s. I mean if you want to be the one to audit the military then why do your companies hide their source code from the military. Should Elon Musk not lead by example first?
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I mean if they are true builders then they should be able to make the system and when sold hand it off completely off to the military then have to hold onto it like they need their hand held and if they can’t then they should not be advising our military when they have never risked their life for this nation and only taken risks for themselves.
As much as I might disagree with the legacy defense companies’ ways of doing business with the military, at least they can build what is needed on a large scale while Anduril is still just starting out which 9 years is not that long. And how they undercut the prices to get in, how do we know that once they embed themselves in that they will not do the same trick Elon Musk did with demanding his pay went from $5,000 to $25,000 but with his own products while he also hides his source code from the military.
So if Elon Musk and Lucky Palmer really want to prove that they have what it takes to tell our military what they need then should they not suggest that all new companies outside of the legacy defense companies need to hand over the source code when they make a contract. Cause if you are not doing that then you should have no business dealing with the US military. And for if you want to replace the legacy defense companies then be able to build on their scale. For the Legacy defense companies with handing their source code over which I believe they should but until they have equal competition with building at their scale they are safe.
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