“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”
–John Steinbeck
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Picture FDFQ reading this in the voice of Dr. Evil, with his pinky up against his lips, and you'll begin to understand:
Paul Krugman retires from NYT.
He is reviving his email newsletter.
"An Insurance Company with an Army"
Thank you for recognizing me as a government worker. My 20+ career as a middle and high school teacher helped to prepare thousands of adolescents to participate in a multiracial democracy, and to read and write at a functional level l( at least).
And now I teach adults , in transition from years of incarceration, to re-integrate into society with a paying job and functional literacy skills. We are paid primarily from Department of Education adult education designated funds, and also partly in-kind from the Department of Corrections.
( the dreaded Government Jobs)
Would any sane conservative really want these guys NOT to get jobs, NOT to attain literacy and numeracy? Is society better served by just "locking them up" forever? I know that's highly profitable for the private prison industry, but growing the prison system doesn't necessarily help society as a whole.
Most of the J6 rioters were employed middle class working men. But if they were not, if we applied the same standard to the J6 rioters, would we not want them to pay restitution, maybe take some anger or substance classes, get their GED if necessary, and then start contributing to society again?
From years of reading and helping debaters prepare, my sense is that little government spending happens without justification.
I'm looking forward to the specific proposals for "savings" from "efficiency." Then watching the reactions from people who will be impacted.
kwtree, thanks for your service! MAGA does not care, the whole point is grift.
Crony Capitalism is alive and well. The line is forming at Mar-a-Lago for all the CEO's hoping to become Trump's new bestie, especially the ones that didn't donate to his campaign or actually supported Kamala Harris.
We have already exceeded the wealth gap of the previous Gilded Age at the turn of the 19th century
THAT IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
I can hear the laughter of the ghost of Milton Friedman. The Free Market Experiment has become the reality we now inhabit.