[ExI] The last chance to stop Trump

[William Flynn Wallace]

BillW, being as you are an educator, I am really eager to have you expound
on that comment. spike
I'll have to beg off.  All I know about it what a former student of mine
tells me and it's all bad.  Main  complaint:  all students are put in one
basket and all are expected to improve.  That includes students who are
mentally retarded and other disabilities.  No Child Left Behind is
apparently a nightmare, and whatever has replaced it.  I'll get with her if
you wish and provide more details.  Another thing is the standardized tests
(which cost Mississippi 100 million dollars a year) and all the problems
they cause.

I see where we drove away Anders.  Maybe we can pick it up again and have
some policy/philosophy/application of technology discussions.  If all we
are going to have is politics, I"ll take a break as well (for four years at
least).

I have tried a few things to restart us but they failed to achieve much
attention.

bill w     (Spike, send them $25 a month on the hospital bill and see what
happens)

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:13 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] The last chance to stop Trump
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> >…Just what lessons did the Repubs learn from being the party of NO?  It
> worked, didn't it?
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> Almost.  We still ended up with the ACA, against perfectly unified
> opposition, who accurately predicted exactly what we are seeing: the young
> and healthy males didn’t come.  The whole scheme depended on them coming in
> large numbers to pay for it.  They didn’t.
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> >…No Obama Supreme Court nominee made it…
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> Sotomayor and Kagan?
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> >…I am far less afraid of Trump acting alone than both houses of congress
> being Repub…
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> As long as no party holds a supermajority, the damage can be limited.  It
> is OK to be the party of no.
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> >…They have a great opportunity to destroy a lot of what we hold dear.
> And maybe some things we don't, like the Dept. of Education…
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> BillW, being as you are an educator, I am really eager to have you expound
> on that comment.  Since the DeptEd is non-partisan, that isn’t a political
> post.  I am guessing you are the most qualified person here on that topic.
> We are all ears sir.
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> >…Did you read what Spike's wife got charged? (That may have been between
> Spike and myself -ask him if you want to know)… bill w
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> No worries, I will tell.  Last month, my bride had some kind of infection
> which caused her throat to swell, trouble breathing, panic, mad dash to the
> Stanford ER at triple-digit speeds in the middle of the night.  They did
> triage, kept us waiting for over an hour by which time the swelling had
> already begun to subside and the worst of the crisis passed.  Junior doc
> gave her an antibiotic and a pain relief shot.  We were there a little over
> three hours total, less than two of that in actual medical care.  The bill:
> a bit over 16 thousand dollars.
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> While there, I looked around to determine why all the ER beds were filled,
> or why the ER docs were too busy to see us when we came in.  Most of the
> beds appeared to be occupied by sleeping homeless people who were there
> because of poking themselves with the synthetic heroin that is so popular
> these days.
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> I asked a few questions and heard what I feared: they get those patients
> in there, no insurance, no money, no ID, no address, no nothing but a
> shopping cart with trash and smelly blankets.  The medics can’t do a damn
> thing for them after the stuff is already in their veins.  So… they fill
> our ER beds every night.  The doctors can only stand by to see if they
> survive.  The staff know them by name; frequent fliers in the local ER.
> Meanwhile, paying customers are suffering out in the waiting room.
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> When we left, the dopers were still in there snoring away blissfully, and
> a new paying customer was out in the waiting room, perhaps not realizing
> they were going to pay for nearly everyone else there.  The ACA didn’t fix
> that; mighta made it worse.  Reasoning: the ER still hasta pay the bills
> somehow.  One way or another; it hasta go where the money is.  It did.
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