- Thu Feb 09, 2017 10:21 am
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I often use the old saying, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” At the time of this post there are no members on line so I wonder why so many feel that they must bash others and rabidly defend their political beliefs regardless of the facts. I stumbled on this site and use it for entertainment. In no way do I feel that I will; change anyone’s mind or change the world.
As I’ve often stated, I am a moderate/conservative Republican as I have been all; of my life. I feel that it is my duty as a citizen to question our “leaders.” I refuse to give blind allegiance to any politician. I am against the insane, massive give-aways that our “leaders” keep coming up with. This also includes the give-aways to agriculture and corporations. I didn’t like Obama but McConnell’s tactic of opposing anything Obama came up with, instead of working with him and moderating his proposals, set this country back several years. The GOP controlled the purse strings so they could have brought him around to a more sensible approached to our problems. As an example, we now have an infrastructure that is 8 years worse than it was when Obama took office. Now it is going to cost much more to upgrade our infrastructure.
I worked in the D.C. area for 12 years in construction management and saw many millions of dollars wasted on ideas that didn’t make sense to anyone. On one project even the government engineers knew that it wouldn’t work. I bring this up because too many are attacking the wrong problems. Remember Bernie Madoff? He was turned into the SEC years before everything crashed. Many millions of dollars could have been saved for his investors if the regulators had done their job. This is typical of many of our regulators, if they can’t hold a job in the private sector they get a government job. And the Wall Street boondoggle was well known as a scam but the regulators didn’t do anything about it and look how much that cost us.
Now President Trump has promised to bring back manufacturing to the USA. Rah, Rah. The only problem is that most of the job losses are due to automation and technology. Not too much demand for wagon wheels and buggy whips these days. Today’s jobs and tomorrow’s job require an education. But President Trump appointed a Secretary of Education totally unqualified for the position and who hates public education.
While we’re on the subject of education, corporations are in a tizzy about Trump’s immigration ruling because they depend on immigrants for educated and qualified workers. Ever wonder why we can’t educate our own people so that they are qualified for these jobs? Go on some of the education sites and see the major advances being found by the students from other countries particularly Asian countries. I’m not ready to concede that Asians are smarter than us.
The raid in Yemen was decided over dinner at the White House on a Friday night by Trump, his son-in-law and a General. Little planning, almost a total lack of Intel and little coordination with the military Chiefs-of-Staff. Ask any military veteran who has been in combat how spur of the moment operations usually go. Now a Navy Seal is dead and the mission was less than complete.
I realize that Trump promised to change D.C. but you can’t totally break everything down and start all new. You end up with total chaos. What if General Motors decided to stop making cars today and start making air planes today. Total chaos.
And then there’s our GOP leaders, after 8 years of saying they will end Obamacare and replace it with a better one, we find out they don’t have a plan and we might wind up keeping Obamacare. I find it hard to compliment our current GOP leadership.
I’m going to Germany for 9 days on business the end of this mon. It will be interesring to field the questions from our German partners.