Shiftless2
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The only problem that Trump had with it was that Obama was the one who had signed it.
The war in Iran (or whose war is it anyways?)
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Apparently.
That mirrors Trump's attempt to undermine Obamacare.
So what you're confessing here Mr. President is that you blindly promised in your profound and continuing ignorance,
to achieve what the experts failed to achieve.
Did you actually believe you could keep this promise?
And now that you've learned you can't. Any possibility you'll learn from your prior absurd arrogance, and curtail these flagrant administration blunders?
Shiftless2
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S2,
Until I read your #223 I wouldn't have thought it possible to enlighten and obfuscate at the same time.
The newspaper didn't invent vulnerability. Sensible humanity has understood the concept for thousands of years.
BUT !
Even if Trump didn't know 20% of global oil transits the Strait, as President
Trump was obliged to know an even more fundamental reality.
It is imprudent to opt for War as long as there is a prospect for peace.
Trump shrugged that off, if he ever considered it at all.
Bottom line: Trump's lavish gift to Iran is the empowerment of controlling a choke-hold on the global economy,
Trump further demonstrating Earth's most capable military is powerless to defend it. And Trump (& the world) would not have had to learn this painful lesson if Trump had exercised due discretion before opting to wage War on Iran again.
Seems like a common precedent, such as the main cause of WWI was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife by Russia.
Russia tried to hide behind Serbia, the Black Hand secret police, and Gavrilo Princip, but the investigation quickly saw through the subterfuge.
Shiftless2
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Excuse me MP,
please do not static-model Sanders' suggestion.
The stats I've reviewed on it indicate the similar G.I. Bill which reimburses some college tuition helps pay for itself. How?
Citizen taxpayers without college degree tend to earn $less, and therefore pay less $income $tax.
In addition, k-12 was established as adequate in the previous millennium, when it may have been.
Is it still?
It's a new millennium. And it's not merely that daily life for U.S. $tax $payers is changing, but that the rate of change is increasing exponentially.
Bottom line, if the U.S. fails to transition to a k-14 standard soon, the rest of civilization may leave U.S. in way back there someplace. [meaning nowhere]
As we switch from jobs being labor to jobs being controlling high tech equipment, the US is going to be left out of the market unless we have free post high school education.
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Trump (or at least the US military) banned from allied bases ....
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And as those that fantasize themselves to be heroic fiscal conservatives celebrate the flagrantly destructive sabotage of their own nation's $economy, it will continue to plunge progressively further toward 3rd world irrelevance.
In this case parsimony is not a cause for celebration, it's the cause of our degradation. Have a nice day.
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Agreed. Even "burger-flipper" jobs are going the way of the dinosaur. There are now high tech hamburger machines that can produce gourmet quality hamburgers at what sounds like an impossible rate of speed.
So much for those part time and entry level jobs. And yes those machines require someone to run and maintain them but it's not the guy with a high school diploma that used to work on the line in the factory.
This from 2023
Millions of Americans Have Lost Jobs in the Pandemic—And Robots and AI Are Replacing Them Faster Than Ever
Millions of Americans Have Lost Jobs in the Pandemic — And Robots and AI Are Replacing Them Faster Than Ever
The drive to replace humans with machinery is accelerating as companies struggle to avoid workplace infections of COVID-19time.com
And it's been going on since long before that. This from 2017
Those jobs are gone forever. Let’s gear up for what’s next.
Those jobs are gone forever. Let’s gear up for what’s next.
“Generals always fight the last war.” — an old World War II saying Manufacturing jobs were a huge part of America’s post-World War II economic miracle. In the early 1980’s, 20 million Americans worked in factories, assembling consumer products like ...www.freecodecamp.org
The article goes on to point out that American manufacturing hasn't necessarily declined, In fact it has increased. What has declined is the number of workers required to produce those goods. And that's summed up in this graph
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And it's not just manufacturing and other jobs we think of as "labor". Thinking back to when my daughter was doing university tours to decide where she wanted to go, one of the schools we visited was the university I had attended as a Masters student. The main library is immense - it's four stories above ground and I honestly don't know how many below ground (I never had a need to go that deep into the place because the math department had it's own library so). In the day you had to find the a book you wanted and then go get it or you could place an order with a librarian and they'd get it for you - pick it up at the front desk the next morning. Now, you go on line, find the book you want, and then you can go immediately to the library and your book will be waiting (even if a student is living in the graduate residences which are less than a five minute walk away). The reason you can do this is simple - there are now robots in the library and those robots will retrieve the requested book from the stacks and deliver it to the front desk. You merely have to sign it out (and you do that by scanning your student card and the bar code inside the book). When you return the book it's scanned back in and replaced on the shelves by a robot. [I'm sure the rare book section doesn't work like this but I doubt you can remove anything from there in any case.]
The library still employs librarians but their role is primarily to answer questions, help students with research, and the like.
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BTW, those people moaning about wanting more manufacturing to return to America haven't thought it thru. If it does come back those jobs won't be the equivalent of the 650 jobs in that mobile phone company. They'll be equivalent of the 30 that are currently employed. And those jobs won't be accessible to someone whose education stops with high school.
I already mentioned fast food - don't know about wrapping them yet but as I said there are "burger machines" that can produce several hundred gourmet quality burgers in an hour. Far faster (and cheaper) than hiring even part time high school students to do the work. And again, the average high school graduate is not going to be employed servicing those machines.
One of the airports I regularly fly thru has replaced its old style restaurant with counters and the menus are now iPads - you simply enter your order and it's relayed to the cooks (yes there are two people running the grill, one person delivering the food and clearing the counter when you leave, and one other who roams around and helps anyone having difficulty ordering)
Proclaim it from the mountain tops.
The good ol' days are good ol' gone.
They can re-tool to build more Model T's if they like. But even at the sensational wage of $5.oo per day they'll soon go broke.
Shiftless2
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I think the most striking thing about #232 is the graph that shows manufacturing has increased.