If Donnie wants to enact REAL welfare reform, it is simple:

Make each person, able bodied or not, who is even partially mobile and who is on welfare, work.

Now, you say, there are no jobs. If that is true for their particular area….say in a 10 mile radius, then we should use some of those unused building the Federal Government owns and give them a place to report to every day at, say 8 AM….and make ’em stay there until 5 PM…..Even if they do nothing at that location.

IF folks are forced to get up and clan up and show up somewhere, even if they do no work, for 8 hours….Betcha that they will find it an incentive to find real, gainful, employment…Something that pays more. Most areas have LOTS of jobs waiting to be filled.

While they are at their place of “Employment” they can learn something. Offer classes Start with real “Three “R’s” ” and go from there….

What? you say? What about all those single women who have to take care of their kids???? Well, there is a few jobs right there.

We can go forward with that, and find other stuff for these folks to do…if nothing else, give ’em a set of gloves and let ’em clan up the streets or trim brush in parks or whatever you think would be needed. But make getting Federal (and Federally funded state) benefits require some mild motivation to get off the couch…show up sober and able to work…at an hour that is reasonable, but requires that one get up in the morning.

Bet that cuts down of crime too, as those folks will have to get some sleep before they get up at 6 or 7 to go to”work”.

But the big thing, No More Free Rides. Gotta “work” for those government handouts  benefits. 

Didn’t Barry get all those Syrian Chemical weapons? You know, the nonexistent ones that they got from Iraq.

But I thought Barry saved us all by getting all those weapons out of Syria…..

So who used what on those poor folks? 

Other than giving the Senators and the Representatives a chance to preen (and, if they are important enough, bloviate on and on  ad nauseum)…what, exactly, is the reason for the hearings with Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg?

I mean, as far as I can tell, Facebook didn’t do anything illegal. So what is the expected result from these hearings?????It’s not like FaceBook is a public company or utility.

ETA: ‘Twas also pointed out to me that No One was under oath for this hearing…..)

And if you weren’t aware of the fact that your personal information and it’s dissemination to advertisers and other interested parties was the reason that Facebook was free….and that YOU, as the Facebook customer were, in fact, the product….Then you really are stupid, aren’t you?

There is a reason that my Facebook account does not use my real name, is never opened in a browser that I normally use for other web surfing, in passed through a VPN and anonymizer, etc. I knew….. If you don’t know, then you deserve whatever “invasion of privacy” you suffered. I don’t have any data out there for them to “steal”

So, again, what are the (no doubt costly) hearings in Congress doing for us? What, exactly, will they accomplish? We are, after all, paying the expenses for this show trial….We should ask our congresscritters what they are accomplishing with this expenditure of our money?

ETA: Apparently, in 2011, they agreed to some sort of Consent Decree about keeping Users information private (HT: Earthbound Misfit)

I still think that if you are surprised that your data and shopping preferences and pretty much everything that FaceBook knows about you is disseminated for profit, then you are a Total Moron and you should not breed…In fact, you are a waste of air.

He was very popular with the ladies

How the media and the folks on the Left (but I repeat myself) have taken to the attack on Scott Pruitt….

It all stems, it seems, from his choice to base policy on SCIENCE, rather than fashionable “consensus” Junk Science….He wants an honest assessment of the “data” that is used to make policy….to let everyone examine the methodology and the datasets themselves. To base policy that affects many millions of people and hundreds of millions of dollars on actual, you know, science….

The Left is up in arms, and for good reason. He won’t hear of spending money or making policy where there is no science…or where the data cannot be examines or the methodology is secret…where the results cannot be independently verified or reproduced……

But that has been the modus operandi of the “environmental” folks at the EPA for YEARS…decades, even…..Come up with at theory (generally unresearched and unproven or researched using poor “science”) as to how Mother Gaia is being damaged (usually the fault of some Big Business)…and make a regulation to fix the (nonexistent, or marginal) perceived problem….

Read this

Now, what do we do about it? 

14 high school students dead after truck crashes into bus.

Note that this is nearly the same number of High School kids killed in Parkland.

By a truck driver.

We must do something. Trucks are too easy to get. Truck drivers need to be subject to a more rigorous background check.

(Please note that I am not making light of ANY of those deaths. Both incidents are a tragedy. 14 more kids are dead, and that is terrible.)

I’m just pointing out the illogic of the arguments….

My prayers for the families of the dead and injured.

50 years ago,  or four years ago,  or 3 years ago, or 26 years ago.  No changes to the behavior.

There seems to be a race thing….or a culture thing, or something that makes Black people living in Black neighborhoods periodically riot and burn and loot their own neighborhoods  when they perceive (truthfully or not) that an injustice has been done

Dorothy Tucker of CBS 2 Chicago explains (watch the whole thing at the link,…the video won’t embed).

They rioted and burned….and their neighborhood has never recovered…even 50 years later.

Why don’t other races do that?

Yeah, I know, pointing out the above makes me a rayciss. 

Overheard:

“I didn’t pay any taxes this year, I got money back!”. This from a guy driving a local contractors work truck and wearing a union hat to his buddy at the gas station….

If I had had the time, I might have explained exactly how that part works….Sadly (Or maybe it is better) I didn’t.

No, you idiot, you PAID TOO MUCH every paycheck and at the yearly settlement, you got your EXCESS TAX PAYMENTS back.

It’s no wonder the government and the Media can lead folks around.