Showing posts with label Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump. Show all posts

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Trumpcare? More like FAILCARE! LOL!

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Courtesty of Slate.com
The biggest news of the week is that the long-awaited moment of House Republicans trying to finally get rid of Obamacare has failed.
Healthcare was one of the big subjects that President Trump spoke on during his campaign, claiming that he would get rid of Obamacare in the first few days of his presidency. It is obviously clear that he has failed to keep his word following Speaker Paul Ryan pulling the bill from the floor this past Friday afternoon.
In a story by CNN, they presented Trump saying, “We were very close,” in the oval office after the bill was pulled. Trump looking for someone to blame pointed his finger at Democrats instead of his own party, the Republicans, who hold the majority in the House.
Trump stated in a tweet Saturday morning, "Obamacare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great health care plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!"
Speaker Ryan did not come out of this without some metaphorical scars, he has made himself look weak, especially since he can’t seem to wrangle in his own party.  
Ryan said, “we came up short, and will be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”
Democrats on the other hand were filled with glee at the sight of Republicans failing to come together and achieve something like a healthcare bill. 

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Orwellian Future?

The Kremlin has been undermining Western news media by labeling certain stories it doesn’t like as “fake news”. Stories that have been labeled from The New York Times, NBC and Bloomberg because they supposedly a part of an “information campaign against Russia.”

It’s a pretty sad state of affairs for news media in America. The president himself has denounced an important part of the American system. The news media is something that has been a part of America since its founding and to have it be undermined and ostracized by both a domestic and foreign power is quite interesting.

According to a Vice News story the Russian government has put on its foreign ministry website a new page that is “exposing” media for spreading false information about the country.
Having a phrase like “fake news” being used as an a excuse to label a story that you don’t like is rather ridiculous. It’s the stuff of novels, something that you would expect to happen in an Orwellian story.


The news is of course fallible especially with it being run by human beings, mistakes will happen. The problem is having the entire organization insulted by government forces simply because they dislike them.    

https://news.vice.com/story/the-kremlin-is-literally-stamping-reports-it-doesnt-like-as-fake-news 
http://www.mid.ru/en/nedostovernie-publikacii/-/asset_publisher/nTzOQTrrCFd0/content/id/2655982

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Critiquing Betsy Devos' confirmation hearing

Betsy Devos, President-elect Trump's pick for secretary of education, may have proven herself unprepared for the position after her confirmation hearing Tuesday. 

During the hearing Tuesday, Devos seemed to show that she didn't have any prior knowledge of the department that she was going to head. One of her long standing opinions regarding education is her support of school choice, which seemed to sum up her total experience with education as a whole.  

Devos is not only one of the most wealthy members of President-elect Trump’s cabinet, but she is also a well-known republican activist in her home state of Michigan and she showed Tuesday that she either doesn’t support or has no prior knowledge of the things that come with being the secretary of education.

One of those things being student loans which the U.S. has about $1.26 trillion dollars in student loan debt.

As a college student, it is scary to think that to have some like Betsy Devos, who has no prior knowledge of basic education terms, could be running the education system of the entire country. The United States is low on the totem pole when it comes to education and if Tuesday night is anything to go by, Betsy Devos might just put us down lower.