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And even worse, that family could get 100% subsidized ACA health coverage, if they just could get over the fact that it is called Obamacare. I have no sympathy for morons who fail to get health coverage their children, when it is totally free.
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TeaBaggers spell it with with an "a."  ![[Linked Image from cubsinsider.com]](http://www.cubsinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/morans1-e1435205247281.jpg)
Contrarian, extraordinaire
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Coal is a dying industry. Logging is shrinking. Better these folks get off the opioids and learn to install solar panels or other work better suited to the economy of the 21st century.
In Ken's linked article they are trying to get his wife trained for nursing or some such that would pay four times what he was making. Why the feck didn't they think of that before he lost his job?
Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
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Pooh-Bah
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Installing solar panels (even with going up on roofs) is MUCH safer than logging or working in a saw mill. Nursing is very steady work and pays pretty well, too. But even so, there is plenty of logging still going on. Just not where they live, but in other parts of the country. If they would just move, he could keep on working in a saw mill. (And his wife could find a nursing school almost anywhere.)
There actually is a need for a few coal miners: Even if we don't use it for energy, we still make some specialty steels that require it.
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Moderator Carpal Tunnel
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Lots of trucking jobs. Significant shortage.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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But my job is carrying the dead canary around
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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But my job is carrying the dead canary around I missed that. How so?
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Pooh-Bah
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Conservatives say Trump is not one. Republicans say he is not one.
How did Trump end up being the nominee for a party that does does not view him as a member?
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Pooh-Bah
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He filed the papers with each state, and paid the required fees himself instead of relying on the Party to do it.
You could do this, if you wanted. You do have to be a native-born American and I think 45 years old to be President. Take some strong positions (no matter how wacky) and put some speeches on youtube, and you will probably attract some donors.
Mental derangement and incompetence is no problem, apparently. You will find supporters that are just as crazy as you.
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The Republican Party has been made up of various groups in a coalition for quite some time. There are Old Money, Conservative Christians, Politically Conservative who are not that religious, Chamber of Commerce Republicans, Racists, Homophobes, and quite a lot of poor people who are convinced they will win the lottery any day now and so want low taxes.
Trump is pretty much a Chamber of Commerce Republican, though that group has not been very active lately. There are some basic conflicts among the groups, but until now the Party has been pretty good about shutting everybody up about them. You know, like the Conservative Christians doing all to fight abortion while The Party does nothing about them (and even pays for them for their mistresses!). Or the poor people who want all the Mexicans deported so they get the jobs, but the Chamber of Commerce guys like cheap immigrant labor.
I guess the groups are just getting smarter and realizing The Party may not be the best fit for their issues.
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