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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. 46963. arkymalarky - 3/23/2017 4:37:34 PM Called my congressman yesterday, and his mailbox was full, which is inexcusable, so I called his local office and complained about that and his potential vote for Trumpcare. Joining the local groups this week while I'm out for spring break. And I'm pretty excited about it. 46964. arkymalarky - 3/24/2017 6:49:46 PM Trump may be the most incompetent politician this country's ever seen, but Paul Ryan is by far the most overrated. This is the second time that he's come up with a major big idea that he didn't bother to work on before he called for a vote. The Republicans have been whining about Obamacare since it was put in place seven years ago, but they did nothing to provide any alternatives, and insisted that Democrats not participate until it's obvious that they're sinking through holes they put in their own leaky boat, and there is absolutely no excuse. if they were serious about opposing this bill they should have a plan that's been in place for seven years that they've just been waiting for the chance to implement. Paul Ryan was so determined to repeal Obamacare on its seventh anniversary that he just made a national embarrassment of himself. 46965. arkymalarky - 3/24/2017 6:50:20 PM And that's more true if this bill passes than if it fails. 46966. arkymalarky - 3/24/2017 6:57:56 PM Okay. This just got more interesting. Paul Ryan went to Trump to tell him that he doesn't have the votes to pass the bill, and Paul Ryan does not want House Republicans to be on record of how they voted for the bill for or against, and I bet you a dollar to a doughnut that trump insists they vote so he can see his"enemies," considering nothing of the party and what it's going to do to them in 2018. Which of course I think is hilarious. 46967. arkymalarky - 3/24/2017 7:59:57 PM The no vote list, which is growing by the minute, will be the roster of Republicans who have said I just cannot stand on the side of trump, and frankly on the side of Paul Ryan. 46968. arkymalarky - 3/24/2017 8:00:56 PM Obama worked on his legislation for almost a year. Trump has given maybe four days, and Ryan hasn't given that many more. 46969. arkymalarky - 3/24/2017 8:18:57 PM Went to dailykos and in one of their headline posts it says exactly what I said about Trump wanting to know who his quote-unquote enemies are.
Democrats ought to go privately to trump and tell him you can redeem your legacy and stick it to the freedom caucus by supporting a healthcare for all Medicare public option and people will pay premiums based on their ability to pay. 46970. judithathome - 3/24/2017 9:36:53 PM Arky, I hope you don't mind but I copied your posts 46959 and 46960 (with attribution to you) to my forum because I thought it was excellent and needed a wider audience...not that my forum is necessarily that much wider but I thought it was a message about education that others needed to read. 46971. arkymalarky - 3/24/2017 9:40:33 PM Thanks! Anytime! That's one of the chronic problems we were dealing with and when we're doing the rural ed stuff in Arkansas, is they just don't have resources in these rural areas even if they are not highly impoverished, which a lot of them are. The insistence on State and local control also causes rural districts problems, even though they're the biggest supporters of that. They just don't get a fair share of resources under the current system. 46972. arkymalarky - 3/24/2017 9:40:59 PM Heh. Evidently Trump decided he really didn't want to know how many Republicans were willing to vote against him. 46973. judithathome - 3/24/2017 10:29:25 PM I KNOW! This is great!
Art of the Deal, my ass! 46974. winstonsmith - 3/24/2017 11:31:13 PM On another web site I saw some posting "Art of the Fail" 46975. arkymalarky - 3/25/2017 12:13:13 AM HuffPost called it a big failing deal, which I'm sure made Biden grin from ear-to-ear. 46976. arkymalarky - 3/25/2017 12:14:23 AM People will have to be vigilant, because Republicans led by Trump will try to do what I mentioned above regarding self-fulfilling prophecies, by trying to gut funding of Obamacare. 46977. arkymalarky - 3/25/2017 12:40:38 AM Trump has beensucking all the oxygen for a year now, but it needs to be clear that this was a massive failure by Paul Ryan. I don't know if he can lead his people in the house 46978. judithathome - 3/25/2017 8:06:34 PM I saw the BEST new moniker for Trump: The (C)loser. 46979. Ms. No - 3/25/2017 8:17:51 PM Just saw this while following down a random rabbit-hole of links:
RussiaGate blows WIDE OPEN in Abramson report
I'd love it if this all came out to be true in the main and we got real action on it.
Of course, if Trump and friends were to be impeached and ousted, they still need to tie Pence to all of is sufficient to get him out on "no confidence" at the very least.
Then there's Ryan to deal with, but I imagine things would draw out long enough to put him in an incredibly weak position after what I would hope to be sweeping gains for the Dems and conscionable Repubs in 2018.
Hey, everybody's gotta have a dream!
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