GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

AMAZON PULLS THE PLUG: DEMOCRATS A PARTY OF JOB KILLERS.

ICHEOKU says Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again demonstrated that she has a very shallow understanding of Economics and does not in fact know how taxation works. She naively thought that the City of New York would write Jeff Bezos a check for $3 billion, not knowing that the said tax incentive will only protect Amazon from paying taxes to New York to the tune of $3 billion over the coming years while the incentive lasts, before eventually lapsing and then taxation will kick back in. 

Meanwhile as the incentive lasts just for the company, its employees and other attracted companies, including mom and dad pop-up stores, cafes, restaurants, hotels, taxis and Uber Lyft transportation services, general contractors and suppliers alike, will all still be paying taxes to the city, which aggregated in the long run, will far exceed the $3 billion tax incentive granted to the company. So overall, it would have been a win win for the City and State of New York, except that there is a new leader for the Democratic Party and her name is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and she thinks otherwise. 

The funniest thing about the whole thing is that this crazed out, wild-eyed feminist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thought that the $3 billion would be paid to Amazon by the City of New York, not understanding how incentive really works. She said that the $3 billion should rather be spent on teachers, the subway and other local needs; only that she forgot that the $3 billion is not sitting anywhere in any bank vault or account belonging to the City and/or State of New York; but was the long term prospective but deferred taxes which Amazon would otherwise have paid to New York. Now, the people of New York have been left holding the plate with no Amazon and no $3 billion, thanks to an ill-informed but overtly easily excitable freshie Congresswoman named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Her low information and youthful exuberance have cost New York an opportunity at 25000 jobs, including ancillary benefits of having 25,000 residents or commuters working at the now evaporated Amazon sub headquarters. Many of these employees would have come from the neighborhood and surrounding cities or boroughs of New York, but have now   missed a great chance at having a great jobs, paying rents and mortgages as well as property taxes, providing for their families, having a company provided health insurance and enjoying other benefits associated with working for the world's richest man and his company, spending on restaurants and cafes, as well as on laundry and dry cleaning services; and other businesses in the neighborhood. Locating the headquarters would have also help gentrify the neighborhood and turned into a huge commercial hub with a lot of thriving small businesses, supporting the headquarters.  

ICHEOKU says if only Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez had done her homework researching the issue very well, rather than making it a let-me-shine event. It is thoughtless and it is brainless to chase away Amazon as New York will lose more than Amazon which will readily find another City to build its other headquarters, outside the City of New York. ICHEOKU is emphatic that so many American Cities will give an arm to have Amazon look their way and can even grant the company more mouth-watering incentive than a paltry $3 billion, the long term derivative benefits considered and weighed against the incentive. There are so many other Cities that will throw the red carpet for Amazon to move in and feel much welcomed than the thoughtless New York democrats who now have completely lost their minds as to what is more important to the people. 

What a missed great opportunity and hopefully there will be some lessons learnt here, especially by the leaders of the Democratic Party who have allowed their party to be hijacked by the crazed out, wild eyed, farthest of the far leftist wing of their party, led by this easily excitable young woman, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The leaders of the Democratic Party must not just lay down supine and surrender to this phenom without at least a fight. They must fight to regain control of their party because not do so will spell doom for the party, which was once the delight of American workers. A party which is previously known for being workers friendly, which attracted membership of Unions and which had always made looking out for the common and downtrodden ordinary Americans their cornerstone, must not give up to these crazies trying to upturn everything. 

Unfortunately, they seem to be deathly afraid of the hurricane Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as everyone of them is avoiding going up against her, afraid that she might sweep them away. But why this cutting off of the nose to spite the face by preventing 25,000 good paying jobs from anchoring in New York. ICHEOKU says it is one hell of a mistake which should never have been made. So what if money is spent to make more money; it is called trade and investments and New York would have still recouped every cent of it. Also, so many other ancillary jobs would have been created in addition, which overall would have easily seen 50,000 jobs come to New York as a result of Amazon. Services would also been attracted including cleaning and janitorial services to help keep the multi complex tidy. It would have been the same Hispanic people, Ocasio-Cortez primary constituents, who control the cleaning business, that would have also greatly benefited by commandeering the cleaning business. But all these have now gone out the window due to irrational obtuseness. What a shame.

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