R's slip "MEDICAID COST SHARING" (some recipients would be forced to pay for coverage) into "BIG BEAUTIFUL B.S. BILL"

[Miles Archer]

3. I knew a "rich guy" (never knew his full net worth) in Silicon Valley...

...an older guy, I guess maybe somewhere in his mid-to-late seventies.

He owned a chain of small supermarkets. He had money. A lot of money.

We were talking about spaghetti one day (we were both in Sons Of Italy). I told him that I liked DeCicco but also bought Barilla because it was cheaper.

He told me he bought Golden Grain because it was 20 cents cheaper per box than Barilla.

For the record, if you have even a passing interest in "al dente pasta," you cannot cook Golden Grain to a consistency firmer than mush, unless you half-cook it, and like crunchy, half raw pasta.

This dude could have bought his own spaghetti factory, he was Italian like me, and he was OK with eating the worst commercially available spaghetti on the market in order to save 20 cents per box.

He passed away about a year after we had that conversation.