Plain Meaning

America had a booming recycling industry in the 1980s and 1990s.

It reduced production costs for US industries and brought in extra revenue for local economies.

But the greed of a US corporate monopoly and the strategic designs of a foreign power ended it.

America has been handing its personal data away since 1982.

Wall Street and academia said it was the smart thing to do.

The rest of America pays the price. And AI and age verification are making it worse.

There have been multiple companies that have cured cancer in animal trials.

None of them make it through the FDA, however.

And it's not because the cures didn't work.

The original "middle courts" of the United States dealt with far more than just appeals.

The courts that replaced them merged two things that both Hamilton and Jefferson warned must be kept separate.

And now most Americans can't tell the difference.

Antiobiotics save millions of American lives every year.

But America's drug companies closed most of the factories that made them.

And now they come from China with the Chinese knowing the power this gives them.

A mall owner used to make money by keeping the malls full.

Real estate groups and venture capital took over.

And now, it pays more to keep the malls empty.

Governments and companies moved most of their records to cloud storage.

They destroyed the physical records to save money.

But then found out that digital doesn't always last.

The Senate passed a bill to give the Secretary of the Treasury the power to end the minting of all US coins.

Both the House and the Senate voted to end the production of the penny.

And these and an increasing number of other laws are "passing" without anyone actually voting on them.