The United States of thieves

We need to reanimate Judge Roy Bean. The hanging judge. You steal a horse - you hang. You rob a bank - you hang. You rip off your neighbor, you either get shot by your neighbor, or you hang. What? Too harsh? Sorry. Not sorry.

Heard a very disturbing thing on the news this morning. In 2022, this country's retailers lost about $90B in theft. WOW! Was that an anomaly? A "one-off"? Nope. This is a harbinger of what is to come. The thefts are expected to continue. In fact, by 2025, the amount of loss due to theft is expected to eclipse $100B. And that is not chump change. 

There is an old saying in business, that somebody always has to pay the freight. Meaning, investments in anything, do not just vanish in thin air. Somebody gets stuck holding the paper. In the case of retailers who suffer large losses due to theft, insurance might cover some of it. Of course, the insurance companies are not going to suffer the loss - they will just raise their rates so the rest of us will pay. Or the retailers where insurance will not cover all the losses, will not just take it either. They will just raise prices to recover the losses. However, if the losses become too steep to recover, they will either shutter their doors, or pull up stakes and move.

I know - we have always had a small (let me say the word small once again) number of people in this country who will take what is not theirs. But as of late, since George Soros funded all these do-nothing DAs in large blue cities, it is like taking a grab bag on Halloween. Take what you want, if you want, when you want. Do it in broad daylight, do it after dark, do it anytime. Nothing is going to happen to you. Why? The new group think is people are "entitled" to steal from "the man". So, go ahead. Have at it.

In our upside-down society these days, some city leaders want to sue Kia for making cars too easy to steal. Not the thieves who steal them - they are entitled, remember? It is the product's fault. Never the perp anymore.

We need to reanimate Judge Roy Bean. The hanging judge. You steal a horse - you hang. You rob a bank - you hang. You rip off your neighbor, you either get shot by your neighbor, or you hang. What? Too harsh? Sorry. Not sorry.

We have come to that point in our country where something big needs to be done. We need a sea change in our thinking and actions. Otherwise, we will truly be known as the United States of thieves. And that is not a good look for any country.