Who Knew Healthcare was this Complicated?

  Remember healthcare? The administration has embarked on a passive aggressive campaign to subvert the ACA: Cost-sharing subsidies are approved month by month with the implication that they could suddenly stop Withholding financial support for “navigators” Suggesting that the IRS won’t enforce mandates. Rather than accepting the failure to repeal and replace the plan is to create uncertainty so that the markets “implode” putting millions of people in jeopardy for the sake of an ego. What is behind this cowardly . . .

Destroyers and Sleep Deprivation

At the risk of sounding unpatriotic, I place the blame for the Navy’s recent lethal collisions between their state-of-the-art destroyers and huge lumbering cargo ships on the top brass. The excuse percolating out of the fog is that the Navy is over-extended and does not have enough resources. According to Wikipedia we have 66 destroyers – not enough? Maybe not for the war industry that President Eisenhower warned us against? Apparently, the destroyers from Navy’s Seventh Fleet are cruising around . . .

Why Sebastian Gorka, Represents a Threat to U.S.

With Islamophobic views and ties to neo-Nazi extremists – thinking this man has the ear of the president is truly scary. Gorka, a former Breitbart editor came to the Trump admin through Steve Bannon at a salary of $155,000, Gorka’s job appears to be constantly spinning the administration’s confused, roller-coaster ride of a foreign policy; and slamming “the fake-news industrial complex,” on CNN. In the past, Gorka, who lived in Hungary was enmeshed in a web of ultraright, anti-Semitic and . . .

Our Simple Economist

We are in some bit of danger from our elected leader who has at best a simplistic understanding of today’s world. There are many factors which affect economic growth. These factors work in combination and taking them out of context to make blustery speeches does more harm than good. Factors such as research and development, corruption control, and cultural diversity all influence a healthy economy. Unfortunately, these are all targets for the current administration to either remove or stymie. Problems: . . .