Ricketts's War on the Iranians: He Expects US to Pay the Mullahs $300 Billion Reparations While HE Cashes In
Senator Cosplay's War on the Iranians enriches him and his Wall Street cronies. We pay their freight.
Senator Pete Ricketts's counsel to Donald Trump led to yet another move unique in USA history. For the first time, USA will pay reparations to a country USA's military went to war with. It's $300 Billion. That's $3,480 per USA family to the Mullahs to advance their Sharia ambitions and build up their Sharia country.
Think about that...the first $3,480 your family pays in Federal income taxes this year will be going to rebuild all the Iranian schools and rural hospitals and roads and water treatment plants targeted by the missiles and bombs we already paid for (and will be paying to replace). And whatever chicanery The Mullahs whip up put it to.
That's $2.8 Billion as Nebraska's. If Ricketts and Trump just gave Nebraska its share of the Iranian Reparations instead of the Mullahs, the state could retire the state's deficit AND THEN use the rest to give every adult Nebraska citizen property tax relief of $1,487 Or instead, Pillen and his henchtheys could have a one year moratorium on non-vehicle sales taxes -- that'd be a big boost to Nebraska's small businesses and citizen taxpayers. And if you believe cutting taxes stimulates businesses, you could see that as a serious win for the our state.
On the face of it, looks so foolish. Initially, he side-slipped open support of the $300 Billion Mullah funding he had shaped for Trump, saying he might chime in later. He hasn't. His support is essential to keep this not-quick War on the Iranians going, with Ricketts's Senate support keeping Congress from obeying the legal requirements for a war.
Why the heck would he want the War on the Iranians and the inflating inflation it's ballooning to continue? Is it that, like his protege Trump, he 'loves the inflation'? I think it's different.
Unrivaled Insider Information. Unrivaled Speculation in Day-Trades
Whether Senator Cosplay coached Trump in war and peace negotiations or not, the way this is going is a dream scenario for stock speculators. From the Pearl Harbor attack USA launched on the Iranians in February (another first for USA) to the failed/re-booted/failed/re-booted/paused/failed/re-booted/failed state of negotiations we've had the last few months, Ricketts has profited in stock trading at every turn. Privy to coming events before the Market as a whole, he's been able to dip in before anyone else. In the last reported month, he netted $5 million in trading his speculative buys and sells.
As you know, the surprise attack boosted many regional-dependent energy stocks. Selected USA and foreign weapons producers's stocks pumped up, too. Then peace threatened to break out, and in a position to know that in advance one sells (or even better sells AND sells short, profiting on the stock price going down). The more changes occur, the more chances to speculate on an up or down change (?is is really speculation if you know what the Market doesn't yet?). Every twist in this twisty back-and-forth is another cash-in. Senator Cosplay knows the market inside and out. It's where the family made its big beautiful wealth and where as an executive he learned his business practices. Technically illegal, but in the last couple of years, such standard practice in all three branches of federal government, combined with recent defunding of the Federal auditors who examine officeholders's trades and portfolios, pretty much a do-it-at-little-risk hobby.
Three out of five of my Ricketts-supporting friends who I asked about this felt "So what if he makes money? That's just smart". Two weren't sure. One was offended that Ricketts would put his family's financial interests ahead of his constituents's life-and-death issues. So we're guessing his avid support of and speculation on the War on the Iranians probably won't affect that many of his voters.
The $300 Billion reparations to the Mullahs may be a different pitcher of Kool-Aid. They already know The Big Budget Bill defunded a lot of Nebraska's rural health care. The most definitive study described Richie Rich's Carnage on us:
Projected Coverage Losses (excluding cuts to Veterans's Medical care)
110,000+ Nebraskans lose coverage under the cuts.
o 53,000 children
o 38,000 rural residents
o 1 in 5 seniors lose nursing home care
Plus $500,000,000 loss to Nebraska Gross Domestic Product. Plus 21–25% of Nebraska’s rural hospitals put at risk of closing.
Just 19 hours's funding of Ricketts's War on the Iranians would cover all that rural health care. But Richie Rich is not backing off, not voting to allow the U.S. Senate to debate and consider this 4-1/2 months-so-far, $858 Million/Day War. And to keep it going, he's willing to have every Nebraska family pay $3,480 in taxes to pass to the Mullahs for their Sharia agenda.
Even if you still love him, you got to admit Senator Cosplay is an expensive date.