Category: Politics

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I keep watching all of these political opinions and memes. I do not remember hearing a single one of the candidates saying that they want to take away anyone’s guns. I do however remember hearing them say, “let’s enact some commonsense gun controls, for example, background checks.”

There is s BIG difference between the two statements. One is a scare tactic. The other is a plan for resolving some major issues. Of course the NRA will prefer the scare tactic.

A lot of things Bernie says makes sense, but the problem is that he is far enough out there that he will not get elected. Even more to this point is that it appears the Cheeto is upset that Bernie may not win the primary.

It’s amazing how many memes I am seeing on Iran, Iraq, and WWIII from those that are not old enough to remember the Cold War and the uncertainty that came along with that.

I didn’t know that DeSantis is an educator or has ever taught in a classroom. While common core leaves a lot to be desired it is not in anyone’s best interest to eliminate something without a backup plan in place. So, what are the goals that each teacher and each student has to achieve? Who is planning on setting these standards?

Christopher Molnar updated his status.

This is BS:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-domestic-violence-definition-change.html

So:

1) We have government employees going to food banks to feed their families.
2) Tampa International Airport has opened a food bank for the federal workers that are working without pay.
3) The Canadian Air Traffic controllers are sending Pizza’s to their US counterparts to attempt to help them out as they are working without pay.
4) The FDA is sending its inspectors back to work, without pay to safeguard the food supplies.

Who would have thought.

I promise you this would be solved fast if the Air Traffic controllers would get all the planes on the ground and close US air space and the TSA would close all checkpoints and not allow people through security.

Someone would have to make a choice…… does the military build a wall…. or does the military re-open air travel? Not enough military trained to do both at the same time.

When people say the current administration is doing a good job because unemployment rates are down I wonder if they really have any understanding of how unemployment rates are calculated? Who collects these numbers?

1) Unemployment rates are calculated based on the number of NEW unemployment claims
2) Unemployment rates are calculated by the number of people collecting and filing unemployment reports.

Now, these numbers are suspect because they do not always include the long-term unemployed. What do I mean by that? Well, most states unemployment ends after 26 weeks, some go out to 12 months. Now, let’s say that you have used your 26 weeks unemployment and stop filing because what’s the point? You aren’t going to get anymore benefits.

Because you stop filing the government no longer counts you among the unemployed.

In some states the unemployment compensation is so low that if you make ANY money over $20.00 in the week you will not collect anything. Again, people stop filing. Why bother? So, the unemployment reports now no longer count you among the count of “unemployed.”

So, is our administration actually making a difference on the unemployed, or are they riding the waves of people falling off of the unemployment roles?

Sometimes it’s good to look behind the numbers and see what makes them.

Just saying….. another roll-back