if u ever studied wealth u would find very few have made it from scratch...Bezos enjoyed an 8% sales tax advantage for 20 years...in retail that's huge......Dunn and Co...the famous self made dudes from West Texas invented nothing....they simply bought a bunch of oil leases with OPM, other people's money, as the Fed invested in Frac Tech...making the Frac boom possible.
Tesla got something like $500m in 2008....it goes on........most super-wealthy got that way thru the efforts of others.
of course if got given free land....whoa.....i have a grade school acquaintance whose family parlayed a Texas land grant into a place where now resides a Neiman Marcus and Tiffany's. Like everyone else in Cowtown their success depended on the massive federal investments in FTW aerospace and military.......priced an f-35 lately? Don't forget federally funded DFW Airport or how bout Alliance which was free land appropriated after the Feds bailed us out of the S&L crisis. Ross Perot's kid swept in with OPM and bought up huge swaths of land north of FTW to build a totally private airport. Note the totally fed funded freeways to make these spots useful to users.......
Nope, no one in FTW likes to admit it, but we are a Government town.
I actually know one semi self made billionaire.....the Army turned him into an engineer and post War Texas was the place for that.......i assume his wife's F.A.O. Schwarz connection didn't hurt in 1952 Houston.
Dearest MD......ur heart is on ur sleeve and ur head is on ur shoulder..........unfortuanetly no Texas Dem sees any benefit in making an issue of any of the barbaric actions of R's......so ur swimming against the tide, up a waterfall, doing the butterfly
i get fundraisers from TDP but no mention of Bible in Schools .......
"Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program supports more than 49,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Fort Worth area generates $9.4 billion in annual economic impact."
What an asshole. Spanish land grants
if u ever studied wealth u would find very few have made it from scratch...Bezos enjoyed an 8% sales tax advantage for 20 years...in retail that's huge......Dunn and Co...the famous self made dudes from West Texas invented nothing....they simply bought a bunch of oil leases with OPM, other people's money, as the Fed invested in Frac Tech...making the Frac boom possible.
Tesla got something like $500m in 2008....it goes on........most super-wealthy got that way thru the efforts of others.
of course if got given free land....whoa.....i have a grade school acquaintance whose family parlayed a Texas land grant into a place where now resides a Neiman Marcus and Tiffany's. Like everyone else in Cowtown their success depended on the massive federal investments in FTW aerospace and military.......priced an f-35 lately? Don't forget federally funded DFW Airport or how bout Alliance which was free land appropriated after the Feds bailed us out of the S&L crisis. Ross Perot's kid swept in with OPM and bought up huge swaths of land north of FTW to build a totally private airport. Note the totally fed funded freeways to make these spots useful to users.......
Nope, no one in FTW likes to admit it, but we are a Government town.
I actually know one semi self made billionaire.....the Army turned him into an engineer and post War Texas was the place for that.......i assume his wife's F.A.O. Schwarz connection didn't hurt in 1952 Houston.
Dearest MD......ur heart is on ur sleeve and ur head is on ur shoulder..........unfortuanetly no Texas Dem sees any benefit in making an issue of any of the barbaric actions of R's......so ur swimming against the tide, up a waterfall, doing the butterfly
i get fundraisers from TDP but no mention of Bible in Schools .......
Speaking of welfare , or, why FTW isn't Abilene
"Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program supports more than 49,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Fort Worth area generates $9.4 billion in annual economic impact."
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