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Creating a graft pipeline: Trump distracts as Musk carves up the pie.

Suffice it to say the agenda is not stewardship. The agenda is rape of the U.S. Treasury.

How would he do that? Think Big. Money. Pits. Simply create big-ticket items where nothing else existed. Privatize the Post Office. That is new. That is big. That is $1 trillion over 10 years. Big money pits are needed for him to get a good slice of the pie. You thought he was doing this for you? Not. So what are the big money pits over which he drools?

Schools.

That is why schools are on his dessert menu. Schools are $857 billion per year. That is a brand new $1 trillion/year pie.

He wants just wants a fair slice of that, say 5% a year. That is what all the “school hoopla” is about. He has his billionaires lusting. Do you really think he cares about education? Ha ha ha. Sure Donald always has been an education zealot, he even had his own university. Let us take a deeper look on divvying up what we do see in the:

School Pie. If we privatize schools we create a new business. Think of it: 115,000 schools. There are 96,000 public schools and 19,000 private schools. There are 80 million students, kindergarten through high school. This is a big business: $857 billion per year of federal and state funding.

Think of the possible graft in letting those contracts. I think $1 trillion per year is really good new graft material where nothing before existed as a business opportunity. That Donald sure knows how to drain the U.S. Treasury. His only problem is they are state schools. He is struggling with that part, but don’t worry. Donald’s sees the $857 billion/year prize and he is working on it. Standing in the way is the U.S. Department of Education. Take away Federal money and states will be clamoring for a solution like privatization. I see greed as the root of evil.

Detention Camps.

Another big new pie, a really big show for you tonight, is the deportation camps. There are models for these. Few understand the complexity. These are not prisons they are detention camps where families live. Let us take a deeper look on divvying up what we do see in the:

The Detention Camp in Crystal City, Texas, 1944. This camp held 3,374 detainees. We will need camps 20 times larger than this.

Deportation Camp Pie. “Get’em Up. Move’em Out.” Rowdy Yates on Rawhide knew how to do this with cattle. The round up has to have a transport mechanism like the cattle drive, and it has to have a drop off point with stockyards to fatten’em up. That will be the closest detention camp. I contemplate 20 such camps. Let me explain. The backlog is 10 million immigrants. That will grow annually 10%.

Single camp size: 15,000 people, think of Bainbridge, Georgia, or any city near you of 15,000 people.) Shipment of 40,000 to El Salvador’s prison system? Rubio’s plan isn’t in sync and is a drop in the old bucket. Guantanamo, likewise is not going to work well. A camp needs to have 15,000 acres = 25 square miles (5 miles by 5 miles)

Land use. On the nearly 15,000 acres of land, the camp will have vegetable gardens, hogs, cattle, and chickens to fulfill the needs of the population. The typical camp will be 1200 buildings, a 65-bed hospital, 10 dining facilities and restaurants.

Operate/Maintain a camp. At each camp there will be really BIG new business:

• Schools (6)

• Hospital (1)

• Health Clinics (3)

• Camp Administration, Burser, and Management (1)

• Communications and Internet department

• Dining facilities and restaurants (10)

• Bulk Fuel Storage (1) and gas stations (3)

• Warehousing and cold storage facility contractor

• Food services contractor

• Central Issue Facility and Operations

• Camp convenience stores (4)

• Laundry services contractor

• Emergency medical services contractor

• Facilities O&M contractor

• Construction Department

• Fire Department

• Water Department

• Sewage Department

• Security Department

• Parks and Recreation Department

• Morgue Department

• Roads and Grounds maintenance contractor

• Waste management contractor

• Transportation and motor pool contractor.

Cost to feed 1 person is $12 per day. This will be a $70,000,000/year food service contract per camp. Think $1.4 billion a year to feed 20 camps. Since I cook and I did BD work for food service stalwarts Aramark, Sodexo, and Gulf Coast Catering (GCC), I can take on this contract. Where do I sign? (What? That is not the criteria? I’m not a billionaire? I am disqualilified? What?)

Cost for laundry for 1 person, $2 per day. This is a $10,000,000/year laundry contract.

A camp for 15,000 will cost $300 million per year to run, not including $200 million each for building the camp. Then 20 camps will be needed, minimum. $4 billion for design/construction, $6 billion per year operations and maintenance, and a 10-year gig = $70 billion.

Number of Camps Needed: 20 for 300,000 people (incarcerated for 6 months). At this rate, the 10 million backlog will clear in 10-15 years depending on the influx.

I think $4 billion in construction and $6 billion per year O&M per camp is really good graft material where nothing before existed as a business opportunity.

What is Going On?

That Donald knows how to drain the U.S. Treasury. I look at two distinct things. Distractions. Big Money Pits. It is either one or the other.

Distractions

Greenland, Gaza, Panama, Mexico, China are distractions. Those are not going to happen, they just fill the media to rile you and keep you occupied. You need this “babysitter”. The babysitter is distracting you from watching Musk’s attack on the Treasury.

Big Money Pits

The distractions by Musk and Trump are to set up those Big Money Pit contracts. Ah yes, that tax cut for the rich and corporations, that already has added $10 trillion to the national debt forecast. We need another one because trickle up has slowed. Congress always approves the Republican tax cuts. One has to reward one’s donors.

And the new procurements for those first-of-a-kind contracts. Those require funding appropriations from Congress too, and of course there must be room in the budget for such contracts to be let. The programs we discuss are not $1 billion. Each is hundreds of $ billions. Graft is Donald Trump’s agenda and intention. Legal graft via quid pro quo is best, but not the BIG buck$ in the Big Money Pits.

• How about privatizing schools? $857 billion/year. An illegal graft pipeline.

• How about Medicare privatization? $839 billion/year. An illegal graft pipeline.

• How about the Sovereign Trust Fund? Let’s put up $1 Trillion in Trust. An illegal graft pipeline.

• How about privatizing the post office? $90 billion/year now, so look for the $1 trillion, 10-year contract coming up for bid. My wife’s mother had a mail route in Gordon, AL. We can take that contract, an illegal graft pipeline.

• How about talking Federal employees into just quitting? Musk’s political action committee had estimated the federal government could save $100 billion by getting at least 5% (of 2 million) to voluntarily quit. So how do you do that? Send them fake-promise letters. Only 2% (40,000) have responded, but with no authority, I don’t see this coming through. If you buy Trump sneakers, this may sound like a good deal to you.

• How about building and operating detention centers? $70 billion over 10 years, An illegal graft pipeline. But it may be too small potatoes for them to pursue. They may go to El Salvador or Cuba.

Let’s Talk Kickbacks

Kickbacks that you will never see: happen on the bitcoin exchange, the Kushner-Saudi lashup is perfect, etc. Make a quiet deal in Saudi.

Conflict of Interest

Recognize this. Elon Musk has ruined any right to bid on any of these upcoming contracts because he has been inside of the Government computer systems. Hence he has insider information that no other bidder has. He has neither thought about this in depth, nor very far ahead. Greed is blinding, but his knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations is limited, beyond sole sourcing.

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spot-light
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough.

Losing My Religion R.E.M. (1991)

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