US national policy issues looming after healthcare?

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Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 19, 2017 - 08:24pm PT
drF

ST's Nabob of Negativity!

Who occasionally posts on climbing threads & wants to be one of the ST folks, even though, no-one here knows him &:

He's our


Nabob of Negativity!

Hey drF, I've been missing your schist in my ST life.

I can hardly wait for your,


Nabob of Negativity!

lame retort.


drF

Trad climber
usa
Nov 19, 2017 - 08:39pm PT
Fritzeee ol'boy

I'm plenty positive.

Just clowning you tools who live here on the politard posts 7 days/wk.

Why are you always so butthurt? You are an intardnet superhero.

The on-line coward forum is the only place you can talk like this..or even have a life. It's OK to have a fantasy ol'boy.

I just wondered again why the pussy Crankl00n posts/deletes/lies/etc???

Sigghhhhhhhhhhhhh ;-(((
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 19, 2017 - 09:36pm PT
drF. Your half-assed apology from your last post, is not accepted.

Nov 19, 2017 - 08:39pm PT
Fritzeee ol'boy

I'm plenty positive.

Just clowning you tools who live here on the politard posts 7 days/wk.

Why are you always so butthurt? You are an intardnet superhero.

The on-line coward forum is the only place you can talk like this..or even have a life. It's OK to have a fantasy ol'boy.

I just wondered again why the pussy Crankl00n posts/deletes/lies/etc???

drF! You have gone from just being a ST troll to being a ST Bully.

I'm sure that makes you feel good, but your nasty ways, this time around are soon over, ASSHOLE!

A Snipe of drF's recent ST bullying.
Norton

climber
The Wastelands
Nov 20, 2017 - 12:38pm PT
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was unsparingly critical of President Donald Trump at a July dinner with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, according to a report BuzzFeed News published on Monday.

*McMaster called Trump an “idiot,” a “dope” and said he has the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” BuzzFeed reported, citing five unnamed sources with knowledge of McMaster’s and Catz’s conversation.

A sixth unnamed source told BuzzFeed News that McMaster made similar comments directly to the source in private, and said Trump did not have the smarts to understand the subjects the National Security Council deals with.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2017 - 12:45pm PT
Are you content to let a single entity own access to all information beyond your direct vision and hearing? FCC (for the last year) has been helping that to happen when one of their main jobs should be to protect us from it. #draintheswamp


Earlier this year, automated attacks (who stands to profit from that?) tried to distract from the public outcry in favor of neutrality.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot-is-flooding-the-fccs-website-with-fake-anti-net-neutrality-comments/


Now bow down to your Internet provider monopoly, the gateway to information in the modern world:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/20/what-to-know-about-the-fccs-upcoming-plan-to-undo-its-net-neutrality-rules/


Don't think you can turn to TV or radio or print for different perspectives than your monopoly Internet provider is ok with you seeing:
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/house-democrats-seek-probe-of-fcc-chairmans-treatment-of-sinclair-20171113-01125



Go on the record and be counted against it:
https://www.fcc.gov/rulemaking/most-active-proceedings

Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Nov 20, 2017 - 01:50pm PT
Pretty good explanation of the strategy of the GOP "tax bill":

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/20/republican-tax-cuts-democrats
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Nov 20, 2017 - 07:24pm PT
Perhaps this issue has been raised in one or more of the previous 4,000+ posts. I've dropped in for a look from time to time, but haven't read every post, but I think this is important.

Not just in itself, but to get this thread back on the rails that Nutagain launched it on -- i.e. instead of the usual "You're an as#@&%e." "No, you're an as#@&%e", maybe it's worth thinking about some serious issues that we'll be facing after the noise generated by the healthcare shrieking-match subsides.

One of which is the massive unemployment that will result from the current drive to replace human labor with much-more-efficient automated processes. Whether you like it or don't like it, there is probably nothing you can do to stop it. Self-driving trucks and aircraft will be much safer and much cheaper to operate without humans at the controls. Warehouses will be far more efficient when robots do the lifting and moving. Grocery stores have already begun to move to human-free checkout...

And those occupations -- truck driving, warehouse working, store clerking -- are what keeps a huge number of people employed. What is going to happen when they are all laid off?

And once they're gone, your job may well be next.

We are on the brink of one of the biggest societal changes in history, and hardly anyone is paying attention.
WBraun

climber
Nov 20, 2017 - 07:39pm PT
What is going to happen when they are all laid off?

It's already happened for years.

You, modern people, are st00pid insane and blind as bats.

You've been doing nothing but killing humanity all while masquerading yourselves as advanced.

St00pid people, you're nothing but sdt00pid brainwashed polished puffed up cavemen killing yourselves.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Nov 20, 2017 - 07:48pm PT
Werner, you have posted the same meaningless garbage in over 27,000 posts. You have about three basic "Stoopid American" posts in your repertoire. We all know them by heart and many of us are completely sick of them.

Grow up.

Make a meaningful contribution or shut up.
WBraun

climber
Nov 20, 2017 - 07:59pm PT
You grow up fool.

You're the one who created this mess .....
drF

Trad climber
usa
Nov 20, 2017 - 09:23pm PT
Fritzee you haven't addressed Crankl00ns constant deleting of his bully posts. Boo Hoo

What do you think man? You like it huh?

What does his boo RJ 'feel'??

Crankl00n is a bully too. Aren't you butthurt by his condescending sh*t vibe....or do you readily accept him....always?

I understand why you 'sighhh' so much

Reel it in ol'boy
Lennox

climber
in the land of the blind
Nov 20, 2017 - 09:28pm PT
^^^^^

SuperTopo Shartstain, STFU.

crankster

Trad climber
No. Tahoe
Nov 20, 2017 - 09:31pm PT
Probably the same psycho


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c wilmot

climber
Nov 21, 2017 - 07:01am PT
The age old remedy for 'young people with not enough to do' is war. I think we all know it.

And opiates. Not only does it keep them high and subservant- it causes many to overdose and die

Which provides a steady source of fresh young organs ready to be transplanted into aging decrepit boomer bodies. A win win for the boomer gen

If you can't exploit em- kill em
TLP

climber
Nov 21, 2017 - 08:32am PT
Regardless of which Horseman is the cause, what is being talked about is a reduction in human population. If we collectively put our oversized brains to it, in theory we could decide to just start on this reduction gradually and peacefully, by reducing birth rates. For one example, one direct and consistent result of improving general education, specifically of girls, is a reduction in how many children they have. It just happens (many well researched peer reviewed publications). Along with that would be policies that energetically support other population growth rate factors wherever those rates are clearly unsustainable.

It is essential to recognize explicitly that "US national policy issues" are inseparable from global issues, and of those the biggest ones are population and climate, closely followed by water (quantity and quality).
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Nov 21, 2017 - 08:34am PT
Thanks Dingus. Lots of food for thought there. I'll try to post tonight when I'm done work.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 21, 2017 - 09:46am PT
I’m sooooo ready for a robotic plumber!
Will she/it have the expected sartorial shortcomings?
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Nov 21, 2017 - 10:28am PT
Innovators will continue to innovate and create disruptive technologies as they have for the past 20,000 years. From papyrus, to the cotton gin, to fusion, it's all happened with blinding speed relative to our short time here.

Bright good people with some kind of work ethic will always be in demand who will seize those technologies and leverage them in productive/profitable ways.

Bright functioning Sociopaths will also attempt to control those technologies and leverage them in destructive/manipulative/profitable ways.

The majority, the dull and woolly flock get fleeced, eaten, and sometimes just killed for sport, over and over.

Same as it's ever been, nobody gets out alive.




Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 21, 2017 - 11:03am PT
Speaking of innovators, the French owner of Evian and Volvic (wazzup with THAT name?) bottled waters, Danone, just announced they will start selling ‘extra-hydrating’ water sucked from the ocean 3000’ down off of Kauai and boy, howdy, are they gonna charge for it! Three times the price of Evian!

INNOVATE Y’ALL!
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Nov 21, 2017 - 11:13am PT
From xcon's link

For example, we could say that Republican leadership in Congress and the executive branch, over the past thirty years, has generally led to:

1) Foreign wars propped up by lies and motivated by the desire to steal resources.
2) Attempts to reduce many government welfare-type programs which are genuinely beneficial.
3) A tendency to encourage/allow increased environmental destruction.
4) An alliance with the Christian conservatives which can have some unpleasant results.
5) Collusion with big business/ultra-rich to loot the taxpayer via vastly bloated government contracts.
6) Deregulation and even encouragement of certain business practices with negative overall results, for example predatory consumer lending.
7) Expansion of the fascist police state, exemplified by the Patriot Act.
8) Economic exploitation of other countries, especially emerging markets, via the IMF and other underhanded tactics (see John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man or Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine.)
9) This often leads to or is accompanied by various incursions into national politics, up to and including assassination of political leaders. See for example the various color-coded “Revolutions” throughout the former Soviet states, or the U.S.’s long history of meddling in Latin America:
10) Aggressive attempts to disadvantage U.S. working classes via lax immigration policies and promotion of “outsourcing” to foreign countries.
11) The phony “War on Drugs” (the CIA is the U.S.’s largest drug importer), combined with a vast expansion of the prison-industrial complex, providing a huge resource of prison slave labor for U.S. companies.
12) Bank bailouts and other outright looting on the vastest scale.


The Republicans are more of Organized crime party than governing party
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