Category: Government (Page 24 of 35)

The good old days are gone unless America stops screwing around.

NYT: Manufacturing isn’t coming back.

NYT: Manufacturing isn’t coming back.

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are vowing to engineer a manufacturing renaissance. Such promises evoke 1950s-era memories of strong communities full of ordinary Americans, many without college degrees, earning attractive pay and benefits for their hard work.

The author believes the US cannot get back to the fully functioning country we had in the 1950’s.  That is a widely held opinion, so talking about this article is as good as any other.

Manufacturing bottomed out at around 10 percent of nonfarm workers by 2019. The numbers employed in manufacturing started to recover under President Biden and may continue to rebound.

The author shows her bias.  If the bottom was in 2019, then it started to recover after that.  Biden took office in 2021, so it wasn’t his policies that turned things around.

While women and immigrants helped offset the slowing growth of the native-born population, it hasn’t been enough: Two-thirds of respondents to a National Association of Manufacturing survey this past spring said that their biggest challenge was attracting and retaining employees.

Attracting and retaining employees is simple.  Pay more and improve the working conditions.

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The American president matters.

Who we elect for president, seems to matter to the rest of the world.

Our dotard in chief, Joe Biden, is the president, but he doesn’t appear to be mentally competent.  No one is certain who is making presidential decisions.  Today, October 9th, 2024, North Korea has decided to cut road and rail links to South Korea.

A year into President Trump’s term, the North Korean leader and the South Korean leader shook hands at the demilitarized zone between the two countries.

The world degrades quickly with no American leadership.

Dennis Kucinich almost endorses Trump

Letter from Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich has a bunch of crazy ideas, but he does seem to have integrity.  Bernie Sanders is similar.  I’d never vote for either one.  Kucinich put out this statement with a few interesting observations, and a whole lot of superfluous jabbering.

When I heard Vice President Harris brag about former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsing her candidacy, that put the exclamation point on the fact that the leaders of the Democratic party are for war. I am not.

A paradox of this campaign is that the much-villainized former President Trump, (representing a party that has also taken us into unnecessary wars) is the one who speaks to the need to negotiate and to talk directly with potential foes in order to avoid war, or to end it.

What seems like a paradox to Kucinich is really his misunderstanding.  President Trump got the leaders of North and South Korea to shake hands at the DMZ.  That is incredible.  Trump also got the Abraham Accords signed by Israel and Saudi Arabia.  Putin invaded Ukraine under Obama and Biden.

When Trump took office, he was opposed by all of the Democrats and half of the Republicans.  He was opposed by the war industry puppets to whom Kucinich refers.

Kucinich did not take the courageous step to endorse Trump.  That would have been something.

Is Walz short for walrus?

Vote for whomever you’d like, I just think Tim Walz does resemble a walrus.

When Tim Walz takes his grand kids to play miniature golf, does he put pencils in his mouth and make walrus noises to amuse the children?  If not, then, missed opportunity.  Miniature golf is fun.

Turns out that Walz doesn’t have grandchildren, so he should file that tip away for later use.

It occurs to me that if I worked with an anthropomorphic walrus, like one might on BoJack Horseman, I might call him ‘Walz” if we got chummy.

Secret Service Report: Averting School Violence

Secret Service Report: Averting School Violence

After the school shooting at Appalachee High School in Georgia, the discussion proceeds as it does after every school shooting.  Both sides make their predictable political arguments, and it isn’t clear that anyone really cares.  The corporate media encourages a therapeutic response, without providing much actual information.  The Secret Service studies these things, but their reports aren’t mentioned much. 

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The invasion of Springfield

WE: Immigration in Springfield Ohio

This article is like the rest of the news reports that are presented if “Haitian immigrants Springfield Ohio” is Googled.  All the articles emphasize that Haitians are not eating cats and dogs, or killing geese and ducks.  The residents are being pressured into making enthusiastic statements about the Haitian immigrants or get accused of being a racist.

Nobody asks about life in Springfield.

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Ohio State’s new intellectual diversity director

College Fix: Ohio State’s new intellectual diversity director

Legal scholar Lee Strang is now at Ohio State University to lead the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society. It is one of five new “intellectual diversity” centers at public Ohio universities that are in the works. They will work to promote “civic thought and leadership,” according to Strang, a former University of Toledo professor.

Intellectual diversity is important to get all sides of an issue.  This sounds like a good move, but we’ll see what this center actually accomplishes.

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