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Mary Waggener

@marywag2947

6 Feb

“US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.”

“[T]he largest obstacle to addressing the US health disadvantage is not a lack of evidence or uncertainty about effective interventions but limited political support among both the public and policymakers to

enact the policies and commit the necessary resources to implement them.”

"There’s a certain amount of denial among the policymakers. What we were explaining ran so counter to the narrative that many politicians have of American exceptionalism and too many believe that, if

you’re a corporate executive or a billionaire, you’re fine.”

“Even with Covid, the US sees itself as a particular model and what happens elsewhere is kind of irrelevant. We are, after all, the greatest country in the world, the richest and the greatest with the greatest health

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Mary Waggener

@marywag2947

2 Feb

#Missouri government is fiscally irresponsible with our tax dollars!

The supplemental spending bill proposed by the governor "includes money to hire two attorneys and pay other increased costs as the Administrative Hearing Commission considers more than 850 appeals from +

companies denied licenses to grow, process and sell medical marijuana."

The state will "demand repayment of any unemployment money it paid in error to residents since the COVID-19 pandemic began — regardless of whether the overpayments came from state or federal funds."

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Mary Waggener

@marywag2947

14 Jan

https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1349467647499509765

#Missouri, our senator has his explanation for objecting to the electoral college votes published in a newspaper in deep red SEMO.

https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1349467647499509765

History of electoral vote challenges in congress.
npr.org/2021/01/05/952…

A letter to the editor that I submitted over a week ago was also published in the paper yesterday. It's also about the integrity of our elections. I called on Senators Blunt and Hawley, along w/ Rep. Jason Smith, to support a quick passage of the #ForThePeopleAct.

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Mary Waggener

@marywag2947

4 Feb 20

#Missouri #moleg

Peter Merideth (HD80):

“Just watched as numerous reps voted yes on a bill passing through committee that they don’t support. It’s so frustrating how the budget chair and leadership use their leverage on other issues to make members support things

they know are bad policy.

The bill was to take about 3% of the SLPS and KCP budgets and transfer it to the charter schools in their districts. The argument for doing so being that it makes all of the per pupil dollars follow the students that go to the charter schools

(currently a small share of local dollars stays with the districts).

While this change sounds fair and “equal,” the problem is it’s not so simple to think that charters and traditional public schools have all the same costs and therefore deserve all the same public funding.

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Mary Waggener

@marywag2947

24 Jan 20

“If right doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter how good the Constitution is.

It doesn’t matter how brilliant the Framers were.

It doesn’t matter how good or bad our advocacy in this trial is.

It doesn’t matter how well written the oath of impartiality is.

If right doesn’t matter, we’re lost.

If the truth doesn’t matter, we’re lost.

The Framers couldn’t protect us from ourselves if right and truth don’t matter.

And you know that what he did was not right. That’s what they do in the old country, that Col. Vindman’s father came from. Or the old country that my great-grandfather came from. Or the old countries that your ancestors came from, or maybe you came from.

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