Ryan Howard is still out of work. If President Trump (just threw up in my mouth) wants to create jobs, why can't he make a new baseball team for Ryan to join? He has quietly settled into obscurity.
In other news, President Trump (drying out now) has signed another one of his quaint Executive Orders that loosens the restrictions on coal that President Obama instituted. He (that will not be named) claims that it will "save jobs." That's always his excuse for junk like this - saving jobs. Meanwhile, we are not in rampant unemployment, and the jobs he is "saving" are low-income, black lung sorts of things that somehow he supports.
I fail to see how being a Republican makes one opposed to clean energy and preserving our home for the millions of children they are producing. "Dying industries will come roaring back to life," he says. How does he explain why they are "dying industries?" Sometimes, it's best to let dying things die - like he wants to do to The Affordable Care Act.
I suppose it's OK to let some dying things die, but not OK for others? Perhaps Donald can get Howard a job in one of his resurrected coal mines?
Hey - it's honest work - even though it eventually kills our planet. But, that's a problem for a different generation.
Whenever our government runs out of ways to tax us, they turn to previously shunned ideas. Casino gambling, legalized marijuana, dirty energy, lotteries - find one. Fifty years ago, nobody wanted to support it. Now that we have eliminated even higher taxes ...
SIDE NOTE: New Jersey officially has the highest property taxes and auto insurance in the nation. Is it no wonder I want to get out of here as soon as possible? Are you listening, Maryland and Alabama?
But I digress. His Trumpness says we need jobs. That's his Mantra for any stupid idea he comes up with -- "Save American Jobs." It's the same Mantra that local governments come up with when they pass legislation that they would have opposed before they ran out of ways to come up with money.
The answer is never "let's find a new path" or "can we cut something." Invariably, they regress to some previously horrible idea that they can lean on to either (a) curry favor with an out-of-favor voting bloc or (b) appease a small but vocal group of voters.
Hey - who doesn't like to throw money at lotteries or keep Uncle Bobby alive in the coal mine for another ten years? It doesn't matter, because they won't be alive to see the end anyway. It's all about their term of office and what bullshit they leave their successors trying to fix. Then, it becomes their fault.
Politics.
Meanwhile, the Earth spins (however wobbly) on its axis, and they deny that people have not affected the climate or the fact (FACT) that the Earth is warming and places that were once Glacier National Park are now becoming something besides a Glacier at a National Park. But, that's just science, and we have to say that it's not really like that because there is politics involved.
The same politics that created controversy over out health care (HEALTH CARE) and makes people believe that the two-party system is to blame for their lot in life. In fact, it's the politics that is the problem. Should our health be a political issue? (I'll answer that) No.
The reality (if I can reduce it to that) is that our health care and our ecological future have become subjects of political struggle. Sadly. We deserve better from our elected representatives.
Perhaps it's our fault for electing them - or their fault for forgetting that they are our representatives?
There is still time to decide.
