3/14/2023

My dear Friend & POTUS, JRB,

            Sorry to miss our letter yesterday. I was busy preparing for our faculty meeting by reading an article about Land Acknowledgements at land-grab universities. Sharing the essence of the research led to a substantive discussion in which a couple of Assistant Professors shared their thoughts publicly for the first time. I felt the higher power at work, so I am grateful.

            Please reconsider selling submarines to Australia.  It has been fine without them up to this point. The executives at General Dynamics must be thrilled. At $2.8 billion a pop, they can make some nice profits from that sale. Did they thank you for shilling their product?

            Speaking of people making money, according to Robert Reich, the SVC situation is evidence that “Wall Street has become a gigantic betting parlor.” I know it’s a tricky situation, but it feels to me that the 1% are being protected by the SVC decisions. Others agree. Ryan McKaken says, “the banks are essentially getting free money…The FDIC was never intended to insure rich people with deposits well in excess of FDIC insurance maximums…Current bailout efforts are inflationary and are thoroughly opposed to the Federal Reserve’s recent attempts at “quantitative tightening.” Vivek Ramaswamy says, “anytime you’re rewriting the rules after the fact to help someone who suffers the downside from taking a calculated risk, that’s a bailout.” Elizabeth Warren explains the situation better than anyone. Please give her the bully pulpit on this one.

            Our monetary concerns are trivial compared to the situation in Burma which continues to deteriorate. 3 monks and 19 villagers were found dead in a village near the capital in an incident that has the “classic hallmarks of military atrocities.” No witnesses have come forward so we may never know whether the PDF or the junta is responsible. Bullet holes in a monastery break my heart. WINTA!!!

            BYBS,