Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c...
by ProjectArcturis on Sunday April 21, 2024 @01:29PM
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Yup. When a VC-backed company goes bankrupt, no one bats an eye. When Solyndra's loans go bad, even though it was a tiny fraction of the government's green energy portfolio, you get headlines and congressional hearings.
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Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c...
by 486sx33 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @01:43PM
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How many middle class workers were robbed through income tax to pay for the $524million dollars lost on solindra? Government money totally ruins any private business, to the tune of a huge party where everyone takes as much as possible with no accountability
Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c...
by acdha on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:32PM
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How many orders of magnitude more money is “robbed” by Comcast/Verizon/Charter, the medical industry, manufacturers who hiked prices up during the pandemic, etc.? Large organizations of all persuasion need oversight but that doesn’t mean we should give up on the concept any more than Enron meant we should give up on the stock market or private energy companies.
Re:Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House c...
by acdha on Sunday April 21, 2024 @01:39PM
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And when a big contractor has an 8+ figure write-off, they have a PR team working to prevent accountability and none of the people who were talking about private-sector innovation and efficiency will be asked whether they had a more realistic position now.