Republicans Cripple the TSA to Hold Us Hostage
Republicans won’t let Democrats end long TSA lines. Full funding with no conditions? Republicans vote it down. TSA is their hostage, and they need us suffering.
Infrastructure Investment: Money for Ourselves
What happened to spending money on ourselves? Water problems like Flint or Compton are known issues, predicted for decades. They’re nobody’s surprise, but we won’t do much anyway. Infrastructure isn’t sexy. Instead, we build new stuff we also can’t maintain, crushing our climate and bankrupting our children, who’ll inherit impossible bills because we couldn’t cover the important things for them.
More Trump Stunts
More of the same. So far this week: Trump buses the entire Senate over to the White House for an extra-special, classified, North Korean briefing. Four people had to brief 100 people. And the Senate has a secure facility — a SCIF — that’s big enough for everyone, since they do this all the time. And yet Trump had a White House auditorium modified for...
Washington Post Shows Us What’s Wrong
We need to be careful about how we treat people who lie to us. Today’s online version of the Washington Post has a story about how, With a deadline looming, nobody is threatening to shut down the government. Whoa, hey! Sounds like good news. Here’s how it starts: Congress is off for two weeks, and when lawmakers return, they will quickly face a critical deadline...
Get NASA Out of Earth Sciences?
No good can come of this. (This is a 3D model of the hole in the ozone layer.) Trump pretended the TrumpRyanCare hadn’t happened, instead crowing that he’d signed the 2017 NASA Authorization Act. That act funds NASA, which is good, and even includes a $200M increase. Remember that nothing has been budgeted yet, and Trump’s draft budget had a $100M cut in NASA spending,...
Fun Figures
Arithmetic for Americans. First, local, state and federal governments spend about $21,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. That’s the baseline. I’m always surprised when people get frosted about the US spending their hard-earned dollars (their emphasis) on that.. (and they’ll sputter for a second) art. When people in America are starving! (Somewhere, they’re sure, although they never really cared enough to...