Western Maryland

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it's time for a smart and capable new U.S. president to figure out how to bring back the manufacturing jobs without upsetting the world economy.

The U.S. has always had smart and capable citizens. Folks who figured out how to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems. Over time, the government has been taken over by idiots who do more to harm the nation than any enemy nation could do to us. A prime example is not protecting American jobs.

When my grandfather returned from the Second World War, all the people who never would have had a change at college took the GI Bill and became engineers who helped to re-start the economy.

When my father returned from VietNam badly wounded, he took the GI Bill and a patchwork of student loans and became a primary care physician.

When my siblings and I went to college, my parents encouraged us to "follow our dreams." So my brother who would have been a fantastic engineer, makes bongs and torques at mortorcycles in my parents garage and never went to college. My sister who would have been a great physician like either of my parents got hooked on drugs in high school and took a three week course at a nursing home on how to be a bedside assistant. She has been fired from many nursing homes for stealing patient's drugs and now just lives with my parents so they can keep her alive. I got a early childhood certificate from a community college and work at a daycare.

I heard one of my aunts same to my mother: from blue collar to bums in two generations.

I think this is what is happening to the US. We had many good people and then they stopped caring about studying hard, working hard, and just took the easy path to a mediocre life. Politicians are the same. We used to have geniuses running the country, now they are so/so people who have hung around too long the senior senators or congressional leaders from both parties. No one with brains wants to get into politics or run the country like the New Dealers who came to DC in the 1930s. All the smart people are following the money to corporate America. What would it be like if a few of those capable CEOs took over the country for a year or two? Can't we have a political president but someone smart to run the country? Something like the Brits who have the figurehead queen but a PM who generally is pretty smart.

Fixed that for you. Look at all the threads on this site about how people are encouraging their kids not to go to college/further their education/pick up a trade itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it's time for a smart and capable new U.S. president to figure out how to bring back the manufacturing jobs without upsetting the world economy.

The U.S. has always had smart and capable citizens. Folks who figured out how to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems. Over time, the government has been taken over by idiots who do more to harm the nation than any enemy nation could do to us. A prime example is not protecting American jobs.

When my grandfather returned from the Second World War, all the people who never would have had a change at college took the GI Bill and became engineers who helped to re-start the economy.

When my father returned from VietNam badly wounded, he took the GI Bill and a patchwork of student loans and became a primary care physician.

When my siblings and I went to college, my parents encouraged us to "follow our dreams." So my brother who would have been a fantastic engineer, makes bongs and torques at mortorcycles in my parents garage and never went to college. My sister who would have been a great physician like either of my parents got hooked on drugs in high school and took a three week course at a nursing home on how to be a bedside assistant. She has been fired from many nursing homes for stealing patient's drugs and now just lives with my parents so they can keep her alive. I got a early childhood certificate from a community college and work at a daycare.

I heard one of my aunts same to my mother: from blue collar to bums in two generations.

I think this is what happened to the US. We had many good people and then they stopped caring about studying hard, working hard, and just took the easy path to a mediocre life. Politicians are the same. We used to have geniuses running the country, now they are so/so people who have hung around too long the senior senators or congressional leaders from both parties. No one with brains wants to get into politics or run the country like the New Dealers who came to DC in the 1930s. All the smart people are following the money to corporate America. What would it be like if a few of those capable CEOs took over the country for a year or two? Can't we have a political president but someone smart to run the country? Something like the Brits who have the figurehead queen but a PM who generally is pretty smart.

Not quite “all”. *

We also have had generations of good people who studied hard and worked hard — and found that all of their hard work and sacrifices didn’t pay off or lead to actual opportunities for themselves or even for their families.

The smart people in corporations for the most part have very different goals from what politicians are supposed to have. A huge part of the problem is that the politicians want the rewards that corporate CEOs get. A bigger problem is that many people can’t see the difference, and vote based on personality cults, racism, and religious beliefs.

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https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it's time for a smart and capable new U.S. president to figure out how to bring back the manufacturing jobs without upsetting the world economy.

The U.S. has always had smart and capable citizens. Folks who figured out how to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems. Over time, the government has been taken over by idiots who do more to harm the nation than any enemy nation could do to us. A prime example is not protecting American jobs.

When my grandfather returned from the Second World War, all the people who never would have had a change at college took the GI Bill and became engineers who helped to re-start the economy.

When my father returned from VietNam badly wounded, he took the GI Bill and a patchwork of student loans and became a primary care physician.

When my siblings and I went to college, my parents encouraged us to "follow our dreams." So my brother who would have been a fantastic engineer, makes bongs and torques at mortorcycles in my parents garage and never went to college. My sister who would have been a great physician like either of my parents got hooked on drugs in high school and took a three week course at a nursing home on how to be a bedside assistant. She has been fired from many nursing homes for stealing patient's drugs and now just lives with my parents so they can keep her alive. I got a early childhood certificate from a community college and work at a daycare.

I heard one of my aunts same to my mother: from blue collar to bums in two generations.

I think this is what happened to the US. We had many good people and then they stopped caring about studying hard, working hard, and just took the easy path to a mediocre life. Politicians are the same. We used to have geniuses running the country, now they are so/so people who have hung around too long the senior senators or congressional leaders from both parties. No one with brains wants to get into politics or run the country like the New Dealers who came to DC in the 1930s. All the smart people are following the money to corporate America. What would it be like if a few of those capable CEOs took over the country for a year or two? Can't we have a political president but someone smart to run the country? Something like the Brits who have the figurehead queen but a PM who generally is pretty smart.

Not quite “all”. *

We also have had generations of good people who studied hard and worked hard — and found that all of their hard work and sacrifices didn’t pay off or lead to actual opportunities for themselves or even for their families.

The smart people in corporations for the most part have very different goals from what politicians are supposed to have. A huge part of the problem is that the politicians want the rewards that corporate CEOs get. A bigger problem is that many people can’t see the difference, and vote based on personality cults, racism, and religious beliefs.

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https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits

So it took African Americans until Affirmative Action to catch up

Will you never stop whining?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why should the people vote for Democrats? They have never done anything for those dying towns.

Actually the Dems tried doing a lot, like trying to protect and strengthen the social safety net that stops them from starving outright (some of the biggest concentrations of food stamp recipients are in deep red areas), trying to reskill and retrain out-of-work people in the Appalachian coal belt (and guess what, the coal sector job loss accelerated under Trump's administration, for a number of reasons - lower global demand and higher automation requiring fewer workers among them). The Dems also promoted infrastructure spending to create jobs in deep red areas. The Dems have done a lot for those dying towns. Far more than the Republicans did - all the Republicans did is rile them up to make them spend what little money they have on AR-15s and oversized gas-guzzling pickup trucks that they don't actually need while blaming everyone else for their own problems.