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46943. judithathome - 3/6/2017 7:34:33 PM According to CNBC:
The three jaunts may cost the U.S. Treasury roughly $10 million, including security and staffing costs, according to a Washington Post report. Each trip to Mar-a-Lago could cost an estimated $3 million or more, Politico previously reported.Feb 17, 2017 46944. wabbit - 3/7/2017 11:20:11 PM Speaking of wow: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Tuesday said Americans may have to choose between purchasing a new iPhone or paying for health insurance.
"You know what, Americans have choices. And they've got to make a choice," the House Oversight Committee chairman told CNN's "New Day," one day after the House GOP unveiled its plan to replace ObamaCare.
"And so maybe, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should invest in their own healthcare..." This is what happens when you lose touch with the real world - you don't know that a new iPhone will set you back about the same amount as one month's premium for health insurance, if you're single and don't have children.46945. arkymalarky - 3/7/2017 11:33:38 PM Utahans need to exercise their choice and dump that useless slug out of a job in '18 46946. judithathome - 3/8/2017 1:28:11 AM Oh, they won't...just like they didn't support Huntsman when he tried to run for President.
It's like an abused wife...they know it's wrong but they are afraid to try something different...something not as threatening because THEY think it could get worse. 46947. judithathome - 3/13/2017 1:18:32 AM Jeez...I guess nothing is happening in politics these days. ;-) 46948. Ms. No - 3/13/2017 2:02:45 AM I'm still not thrilled with the media coverage of late. I"m not sure what I want to be different about it -- well, I am, but I don't know that it's feasible.
It still seems like there's too much extraneous chatter about the ridiculousness of Trump. I mean, is there nothing else going on in the world other than Trump and Brangelina's divorce?
Report on him, god yes keep him accountable, but if there hasn't been some truly breaking development, we don't need the same old tweets and blurps repeated as front page above the fold news every day. Does anybody really give a hairy rat's ass about KellyAnne's feet on the couch? Is that really news?
How about more info on what our Congressional Representatives are doing? How about more info on just what the de-regulation of certain industries is going to impact? How about they quit talking about Trump's actions as "unprecedented" and find something that doesn't whitewash the ineptness and indecency of what he does? Executing poor children on the White House lawn would be "unprecedented," but I imagine they'd come up with some other words for that. 46949. judithathome - 3/13/2017 4:30:13 PM He'd call it "thinning the herd"...or..."horde". 46950. judithathome - 3/17/2017 11:19:29 PM Jesus, Angela Merkel managed to say more with LOOKS today during a press conference with the AssholeInChief than anyone could have said in 100 words or less.
46951. Ms. No - 3/18/2017 7:11:40 PM He's such a total freak. I can only imagine what world leaders are saying when they get together. 46952. Trillium - 3/18/2017 7:23:43 PM Joint Press Conference
At the beginning of the YT there is mention of workforce development, especially industrial apprenticeships which have served German industries very well (and various U.S. states which have adopted some features of the German system, notably South Carolina) 46953. judithathome - 3/18/2017 8:54:14 PM Got a "this page cannot be found" in that link.
Could be my computer...just sayin'. 46954. Trillium - 3/19/2017 3:57:49 PM Nope, it disappeared for me also. Don't know why.
Here's another version of the YouTube, will see if this one works:
Full Joint Conference
Plus this:
ABC News: Trump, Merkel talk job training
German technical students, from what I've seen and heard, benefit from world-class training that supports their economy well. Would be great if we could use what works, here. 46955. judithathome - 3/19/2017 6:26:44 PM I've been saying that since 1985...at the Gauthaus (hotel) where we stayed for a month when we first moved there, the young lady who was our...waitress, interpreter, maid, and HUGE help in acclimating us to this very foreign country... had trained 4 years for her job...and had been working there for three years...we once asked her what her plans for the future were and she said "To inherit THIS place as manager/owner" And I'd bet if you went back there today, she WOULD BE just that.
It is amazing how most people in Germany who are working in jobs Americans would sneer at are trained, prepared, and admired for being so. If a teen is not academically suited for "college", they are sent to technical schools which turn out some of the best and most driven to succeed workers in the world. 46956. Ms. No - 3/20/2017 5:03:52 AM It's the dark side of the American Promise --- sure, you can be anything you want, but you have to be the one to get there. We don't do anything as a country to really support your success because that would be Socialism or Fascism or some-other-ism that interferes with our Rugged Individualism.
Don't mind me. I've got a terrible cold and I hate everything right now.
Except puppies. I never hate puppies. 46957. judithathome - 3/20/2017 10:10:05 PM Sorry: Gasthaus 46958. judithathome - 3/20/2017 10:47:56 PM Just flipped to NPR on the radio and it was a program called No One Cares About Crazy People....obviously that is TRUE or we wouldn't have a President Trump!
46959. arkymalarky - 3/23/2017 4:26:43 PM Republicans like to compare American schools unfavorably to other countries and then make sure that they compare unfavorably to other countries. They live for creating self fulfilling prophecies. They're trying to do that right now with the repeal of obamacare. When their voting base dies off at an even higher rate than they're doing right now, they say the healthcare system is failing them and we've got to fix it by killing it. It's not doing you any good anyway. Fill in the blank with any service these people depend on, lather, rinse, repeat. Don't abort your babies, but make sure that they're just as miserable as you are from the day they're born. That's our job. They don't need good schools, or basic health care, or job prospects, or decent housing. They just need to be born and the rest is unimportant.
The first issue with United States with regard to education and so many other services, including Health Care, is logistics. As a rural person I know that we have tried vocational programs that were Hands-On, but there's just nothing around here for these kids to do. We still have them, but the skills the kids are learning are not transferable. They don't have enough advanced technology, they don't have any place to actually work their skills, and they don't have highly experienced people training them. When Japanese students are being trained in deep sea fishing they can do deep sea fishing. We have been successful at training kids in Electronics, carpentry, farming, forestry, and other skills that are available around here, but high-tech auto mechanics or things like that we just don't have access to. And that's where these kids need it most. The jobs they have access to training for are virtually non-existent now due to automation Or Outsourcing.
The stats have been studied awhile, but There's a fascinating article in Washington Post about the study out of Princeton on deaths in white rural communities and why those are happening. It really all boils down to good jobs. It's not just the poverty that comes from the jobs leaving, but it's lack of security and depression from knowing that how your family has been able to live is not available to you anymore. There comes a point that you have to choose to leave and the least educated least competent are the last to make that choice.
46960. arkymalarky - 3/23/2017 4:26:53 PM Rarely do I have successful kids come back to live in these rural communities unless they're teachers. There's nothing else for them to do here if they're college educated. Fewer and fewer find good paying unskilled work, or they drive trucks or work their parents jobs, if they're among the few lucky ones. When I started 36 years ago, uneducated kids, even dropouts, went to the log Woods or to the Farms, but they simply don't have that option anymore. It's a transition that happens repeatedly in largely rural and highly industrialized advanced countries. Part of our problem is due to the archaic system which brought us president Trump that was designed for 95% farming Rural people. Because of it, at the national level we don't shift the government systems and services to meet the changing demographics and population Logistics, etc. The only way through it is the painful Decline and death of smaller towns, and you see ghost towns all over this country, all dead in different stages of development that made them obsolete. 46961. arkymalarky - 3/23/2017 4:30:53 PM Legislative leadership 101:
Don't call for a vote until you know the count is going your way without a doubt. Poor Paul Ryan just cannot seem to learn that. They may squeak this through, but he looks bad no matter what happens. 46962. arkymalarky - 3/23/2017 4:34:51 PM On my other topic, in AR alone, we have dead towns that were cotton Towns, river towns, railroad towns, logging towns, and large farming Center towns. all Dead. In other states Factory towns share the same fate.
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