Blumenthal is the one who said, “We’re getting our money’s worth” in Ukraine. Russia weakened and no U.S. soldiers killed. But aren’t Ukrainian lives worth just as much?
Besides, it’s just a lie that Russia has been weakened. Like most of the wars from Vietnam to today, the results have been the opposite of the intentions.
The #GOPDebate last night was out of sync with the mood of the country. It began with a request for comment on Oliver Anthony’s @AintGottaDollar song, “Rich Men North of Richmond.”
@AintGottaDollar Now that is an extraordinary song — raw, yet intelligent; defiant, yet compassionate. It’s about working-class hardship. It is about low wages (“bullshit pay”). It’s about degraded food supply, elite corruption, obesity, homelessness, despair.
Candidates could have talked about these things. But they said nothing about the desperation + hardship working people face. They said nothing about wages or housing, food, child care + medical costs, or what we can do about it. They said nothing about systemic corruption that enriches corporations + elites as swaths of the former middle class fall into poverty.
Hawaii fires result from poor tending of the land. First, industrial ag plantations obliterated native ecosystems. When these farms were abandoned, combustible invasive grasses took over.
Climate change may be a factor too. But we must resist the seduction of a simplistic global explanation for every environmental problem. Top priority has to be on healing soil, forests, wetlands, rivers, and oceans, instead of treating them as resources to strip and waste dumps.
Stop ruining land + water. Stop poisoning the earth. Protect what remains + regenerate what was damaged. Healthy ecosystems stabilize weather and mitigate flood-drought cycle. They also draw down carbon.
When it comes to the divisive issue of border policy, here is the first principle I want everyone to understand. The reason for strong border control is not xenophobia, bigotry, or hate. The reason is humanitarian conscience. #Kennedy24
Democrats and Republicans can agree that the humanitarian nightmare that has resulted from essentially handing immigration policy to the drug cartels is unacceptable. We need to take back control.
I am in favor of immigration. But it must be lawful, orderly, and at a volume the country can absorb without straining social resources.
Americans are moving into their vehicles. Huge exodus from houses to vans as property taxes and cost of living skyrockets. Does anybody in Washington D.C. understand what’s happening in America? Workers can’t afford to live in this country.
A generation or two ago, a single wage-earner with high school education could own a home, raise a family, have vacations, save for retirement. That’s how it should be. If you work hard, you should have a decent life.
Today that American Dream has become a fantasy as much of the former middle class has descended into precariousness, scrambling in the gig economy, mired in debt, borrowing from relatives.