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Sunday, February 7, 2021
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Monday, October 10, 2016
Donald Trump, Briefly, Succinctly But Completely Described
There is a terrific, brief article out just now describing Donald Trump. And before it's assumed it's from some Left Wing, Liberal, deeply Democratic Party operative, know that the person they're quoting, the person describing The Donald is actually from a GOP consultant, one Rick Wilson. Here's the article.
Also in brevity, here's the gist of the article:
...the real fatal flaw has just been named by GOP consultant Rick Wilson. “Everything Trump touches dies.” It’s a triumph of concision, summing up perfectly in four words the strange and devastating trail of wreckage he leaves behind him. It turns out that Trump is the Faustian bargain, the homme fatale, the Art of the Deal with the Devil.
Trump has eaten like acid through a wide swath of the Republican Party and many of its leaders, as they are learning too late. Luckily for the rest of us, the pattern is now clear. The kryptonite for Trump is our recognition that Trump is kryptonite to America.
And as proof, coincidentally, take note of an event today.
Trump's own Taj Mahal casino/hotel in Atlantic City closed today. As the article says, his 5th failed casino. And this on top of his 6 bankruptcies.
This is the good to great businessman?
This is the guy they want to lead us? For his business acumen?
Really?
Links:
Donald Trump bankruptcy: Everything you want to know
Monday, January 5, 2015
Thursday, August 7, 2014
The Intelligent, Uncomplicated Social Security "Fix"
Don't let anyone, in any political party, tell you Social Security is going or has to go broke. It's nonsense. And the solutions aren't that difficult at all. It's not complicated. And no one needs to truly suffer, to fix it.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
New data on America's (very broken) health care system
The latest:
Millions can't afford to go to the doctor
A growing number of Americans are skipping needed medical care because they can't afford it.
Some 80 million people, around 43% of America's working-age adults, didn't go to the doctor or access other medical services last year because of the cost, according to the Commonwealth Fund's Biennial Health Insurance Survey, released Friday. That's up from 75 million people two years ago and 63 million in 2003.
Not surprisingly, those who were uninsured or had inadequate health insurance were most likely to have trouble affording care. But 28% of working-age adults with good insurance also had to forgo treatment because of the price.
Nearly three in 10 adults said they did not visit a doctor or clinic when they had a medical problem, while more than a quarter did not fill a prescription or skipped recommended tests, treatment or follow-up visits. One in five said they did not get needed specialist care.
And 28% of those with a chronic condition like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and asthma who needed medication for it reported they did not fill prescriptions or skipped doses because they couldn't afford to pay for the drugs.
Even those with coverage find themselves shelling out more for deductibles and co-payments. The share of Americans with deductibles greater than $1,000 more than tripled between 2003 and 2012, reaching 25%.
"Costs of health care have gone up faster than wages," said David Blumenthal, president of The Commonwealth Fund.
The survey also found that 84 million people, nearly half of all working-age adults, went without health insurance for a time last year or had such high out-of-pocket expenses relative to their income that they were considered under-insured. That's up from 81 million in 2010 and 61 million in 2003.
All of this on top of the fact that the number one cause of bankruptcy in this nation is health care costs. One health care problem and we're bankrupt: Top 5 Reasons Why People Go Bankrupt
But no, we don't have any health care system problems. No, certainly not.
And keep "Obamacare"?
Don't be silly!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Poor Detroit (literally and figuratively)
Thank goodness, Kansas City, we're not Detroit, Michigan, in so many ways.
The latest way is in their schools. This, yesterday, from NPR:
Detroit Teachers Mull Strike Over Imposed Contract
"The existing contract for Detroit teachers was ripped up and chucked into the trash by the school district's emergency financial manager. The teachers' union is angry and making noise about a possible strike."
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
Public school teachers in Detroit have a new contract, one they didn't bargain for and didn't sign. It was imposed by the state-appointed official in charge of the district. And now, two months before the start of the school year, the teacher's union is considering going on strike.
This happened here in Kansas City, as I recall, a few years ago, under one of the Superintendents--John Covington, I believe, but would have to verify.
Anyway, there's the Detroit school district--broke, in debt--deep, deep debt and needing solutions so they tore up the old teachers contracts and want to start all over.
Wow.
The city's in trouble, financial and otherwise, and this, too, at the same time.
Then there's this:
Quinn Klinefelter (reporter, interviewer): "Decades of mismanagement and internal squabbles left Detroit schools hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. The state appointed an emergency manager to take over the finances in 2009 with the power to make sweeping changes. This year, emergency manager Roy Roberts is closing 15 schools. And with the state ending requirements that teachers be hired based on seniority, Roberts handed all 4,100 Detroit public school teachers a pink slip, told them to reapply for a job and says 800 of them will not be hired back."
That's tough.
And it stinks.
It seems to me Detroit is like this tiny, isolated country between Canada and the United States no one wants much, if anything, to do with and no one wants to help.
There's so much to this story, too. I want to be for the schools but they have to address their expenses, without doubt.
I want to be for the teacher's union because--well, just because.
I'm certainly for the teachers, sure, but cuts have to come from somewhere.
And you have to be for the kids, the students, whatever has to happen.
They have, apparently, far too many teachers and have to reduce the quantity somehow.
And you know that's not going to be pretty.
Whatever was bad about KCMO School District Superintendent John Covington's leaving us, at least he took care of the debt before it got any worse.
And before he dumped us.
Hey, at least we're not Detroit.
Link: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/16/156869052/detroit-teachers-mull-strike-over-imposed-contract
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Health care in America: We're NOT number one
From the article linked below: "A study released Thursday by the American Journal of Medicine finds a huge increase—nearly 20 percent—in medical bankruptcies between 2001 and 2007. Sixty-two percent of all bankruptcies filed in 2007 were tied to medical expenses. Three-quarters of those who filed for bankruptcies in 2007 had health insurance." Nice,huh?
A few more stats:
--62.1% of all bankruptcies have a medical
cause.
--Most medical debtors were well-educated
and middle class; three quarters
had health insurance.
--The share of bankruptcies attributable
to medical problems rose by 50% between
2001 and 2007.
This is for anyone left out there who thinks our health care system doesn't need any fixing.
Links: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/american_journal_of_medicine_09.pdf; http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/05/1051848/-Medical-bills-cause-62-percent-ofbankruptcies
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Star needs to check out Seattle's paper
Okay, all the folks at The Star need, apparently, to study Seattle's newspaper, it seems.
Seattle was a two-newspaper town when The Post Intelligencer went out of business, leaving only The Seattle Times. Now, the paper says "a nearly forgotten word has crept back into Times executives’ vocabulary: profit."
And sure, it's one thing if you go from two papers to one, which Kansas City certainly can't do but still, maybe there are things the Star folks can learn from The Seattle Times.
It sure couldn't hurt.
So there you are, KC Star folks--get on the phone. Check out their paper online or go to the library and buy their papers. See if they have any solutions.
The Kansas City Star isn't much anymore but, as the saying goes, it's all we got.
Link to story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/business/media/10seattle.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Seattle+paper&st=nyt
Seattle was a two-newspaper town when The Post Intelligencer went out of business, leaving only The Seattle Times. Now, the paper says "a nearly forgotten word has crept back into Times executives’ vocabulary: profit."
And sure, it's one thing if you go from two papers to one, which Kansas City certainly can't do but still, maybe there are things the Star folks can learn from The Seattle Times.
It sure couldn't hurt.
So there you are, KC Star folks--get on the phone. Check out their paper online or go to the library and buy their papers. See if they have any solutions.
The Kansas City Star isn't much anymore but, as the saying goes, it's all we got.
Link to story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/business/media/10seattle.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Seattle+paper&st=nyt
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