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I still have my wooden

trkingmomoe — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:03:02 +0000

In reply to Even socks? If so, we'll be

I still have my wooden darning bulb. My Aunt Mary very patiently taught me how to hand patch my brother's pants. To this day I am grateful to her for that skill. I have passed it down to others who have kids. I think it is cruel for school systems to force parents to buy school uniforms in poor districts for the reason you said. I have spent time showing and helping my neighbors salvage their kids school uniform pants.

Sock knitting has come back in fashion. Many mid twentieth century household skills have had a resurgence out of necessity. This includes saving money in a coffee can for something that is needed.

Amen!!! Thank you for laying

trkingmomoe — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:07:46 +0000

In reply to Couldn't stop myself so here

Amen!!! Thank you for laying it out straight. It needs to be said.

Fracking is used now for 60%

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:14:00 +0000

In reply to My guess is that fracking is

Fracking is used now for 60% of our oil & gas production. I tried to make this clear last year when it was "only" 50% - the cows have left that barn. There is minus 300% chance that we would find the political will to take on the huge costs of doing without fracking, especially as would kill our competitiveness globally. I mean, sure, if we could show that thousands of people are dying (like with with guns and 10x that with cigarettes), we *might* (not) find the will.

"Two years ago, global oil prices crashed after the world started pumping out far more crude than anyone needed. That plunge, from $100 per barrel down to $40, upended the global economy — and cost oil producers like Saudi Arabia billions in lost revenue."

Who's going to willingly pay that extra $60 per barrel?

Yes, we might regulate it to prevent the worst contamination, but I really wish Dems would get more focused on doable policies and strategies than to continually get off in the weeds over something futile.

[and no, global warming scare won't kill fracking - fracking just bought us some time to not worry about Russia or the Middle East. We just have to get on with finding & deploying non-fossile alternatives real real quick. Aside from the well-known growth of wind & solar, other options are getting interesting very quickly:

http://thorconpower.com/

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/molten-salt-reactors-iaea-to-establ...

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Even socks? If so, we'll be

artappraiser — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 04:55:17 +0000

In reply to Trump's right.

Even socks? If so, we'll be darning them again due to the cost of replacement? (unpaid labor?!) I don't have as many decades as you, but I am old enough to recall what it was like when there was no such thing as a discount store and lots of people bought winter and school clothes on 'layaway" because they were a major purchase and there were no personal credit cards either,

Partly because: my mother was often ready to kill my brothers when they tore the knees out of their pants, yes she got so angry and upset, punishment did get physical. Iron-on patches had just become available at like, Woolworth's, but they were poor quality of few colors and didn't stick that well, owing to lack of competition, and I suspect pants makers with well-paid union workers didn't want you to have such things, they wanted you to buy your kids new pants. (To go in reverse to historic markets rather than the improvements of competition, the propensity to tear pants is why earlier generations of boys didn't wear long pants until of a certain age. What does that say economically?)

Not to mention:primary care docs were not paid by insurance cos (as most of the latter covered only hospitalization) but by their patients on informal installment plans....but that's a whole nother thing: still, professional services are labor....

I been bad commenting at length as I should be sleeping, can't help it, you inspired me. Don't feel you have to respond, just take it as provoking thought.

By Jove I think you've got it

Peter — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 04:50:06 +0000

In reply to Yeah , they do. The price of

By Jove I think you've got it Flav. You seem to have the basic idea of what needs to happen but are a bit muddy on the details.

We need what Trump has been working on, high skilled high paying jobs that can be kept here first and then other US company production can be returned from abroad. There isn't much to be gained by bring back the production of the cheap consumer junk the Chinese produce for us at a price we couldn't produce them for. We don't want those jobs leave them in China.

Triditional tarrifs are not needed because the markets for these products we can build here are already mature and all the producers have to do is set up shop and deliver. Trump's team is working on changes to our port tax sceme raising it on imports and eliminationg it on exports but that's another discussion.

Not forgetting the homeless you mention who may be the lowest skilled and most difficult to place in jobs. If enough high paying skilled jobs are returned and the infrastructure projects are set in motion then the millions of jobs needed will be produced. These new jobs and the wealth they generate will drive demand for the service jobs that the less skilled can fill. Even the job creators you mention need this new wealth/demand from the working class. They may get money from the wealthy but they depend on customers to pay those loans back.

My guess is that fracking is

Flavius — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 03:58:56 +0000

In reply to The other consideration about

My guess is that fracking creates such environmental damage it shouldn't be permitted.. If that's true I wouldn't. From my religious childhood I remember "What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his soul?". A "Faustian bargain."

But since my fracking knowledge is superficial , maybe I'm wrong. Facts matter. Unless you're Kelly Anne Conway.

Possibly you meant would I approve anything that creates jobs? (Which you didn't ask .) Answer: "of course not".

Or perhaps: "so how much damage to something important- an object, a position, whatever, would I tolerate as the trade off for more jobs ?".

Answer: ' mostly- it's a matter of degree.' How many jobs? How much damage?

Not always. There are absolutes. .I recall Joe Bailey working endlessly to make us realize that macho industrial relations are self defeating. Then came the case of the mine guard -up late with a sick baby- who fell asleep and failed to prevent a crew from going down a shaft towards a planned explosion.By luck no one was hurt. So what then?

Fire him.

Couldn't stop myself so here

Flavius — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 03:01:57 +0000

In reply to "Slaves of some defunct

Couldn't stop myself so here's the full quote.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Stop me before I quote more!

The other consideration about

rmrd0000 — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 02:52:30 +0000

In reply to Yeah. Sigh

The other consideration about bringing jobs back is that a process like fracking creates some jobs but impacts the environment. Would you advise Democrats to vote for jobs involving fracking to bring jobs for the Lunchpails at the expense of the environment? Votes against fracking will be labeled as voting against jobs.

Yeah. Sigh

Flavius — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 02:45:18 +0000

In reply to Infrastructure is all about

Yeah.

Sigh

Infrastructure is all about

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:27:04 +0000

In reply to He is dumping mining waste

Infrastructure is all about $2 trillion to pass around to friends - certainly not to spend wisely and prudently. Look at the old Trump friends he's already put at the teat for $1 billion or more.