Recently, retired Speaker of the House, John Boehner, said that Ted Cruz was Lucifer Incarnate. Well, as I write this, Lucifer (Cruz) has just been defeated by Donald Trump.
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We're seeing rebellions around the world from people disgusted with the status quo. In the Muslim World, ISIS is the latest metathesis of the plague from which Al Qaeda originated - people who want to impose a extremist view of their faith on the rest of the world. Before anyone says this problem is unique to Islam, the Christian and Jewish peoples also have this same problem.
In the United States, we've seen a string of states enacting bathroom bills to harass transgender people. In one state, they have effectively made it illegal for a trans person to go to the bathroom in a public facility. This is ludicrous - and people like Cruz should be ashamed of themselves. But then, these people think that their morality trumps both common sense and the rule of law.
As much as I dislike what Donald Trump stood for in this election season, I must respect him for one thing. He respected the rights of transgender people to go to the bathroom and be unmolested.
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Now it looks like it will be a Trump vs. Clinton general election. (Of course, California has yet to vote, and Sanders could receive a miracle.) Will Trump tack to the middle and start saying things that make sense? Stranger things have happened.
The other day, Hillary went to West Virginia and told idled coal workers that their jobs will never be coming back. Although that's true, it's not the message these people want to hear. Yet, Hillary doesn't have a clue about how to bring these people into the workforce, as she's still thinking of bringing dead-end jobs to rural areas. The typical employment problem "solved" by politicians is to bring low skilled work to rural and inner city areas. This doesn't address the real problem. Most non manufacturing work can be done anywhere that one has access to the internet. Why aren't we looking to bring small scale businesses which require internet connections to these people, and tax the hell out of "American" businesses who serve the American market with labor from overseas? If Discover Card is advertising "All American" call centers to service its customers, why can't we bring this kind of work back to the USA to be done by American citizens?
The tech industry says that it needs people, and uses a "lack of qualified American workers" as a reason to use overseas help. Why not train people in "low rent" areas of the country, and use them for grunt technology jobs? This would not be a complete or quick solution - it would take time to build up the skill sets to service our nation's needs using American labor, and we'd have to narrowly focus on which jobs we claw back, so that we don't completely disrupt business being done in this country.
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Of course, structural unemployment will be the idea whose name shall not be spoken in this election cycle. If more people were working, no one would mind the rich getting richer. But as long as people are being left behind, we'll continue to see the Trumps of this world dupe people who have lied to for years by our ruling elite of both parties....
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