Very interesting posting on Face book from the Other 98 %: It captures the President's Budget Priorities.

Remember What they did to Merrick Garland

While Neil Gorsuch is impeccably qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, Democrats, given the unforgivable treatment accorded Merrick Garland by the Republicans, should not make it easy for this nomination. It is not a personal attack on Gorsuch who, despite having disagreeable views from a progressive perspective, is a person of high caliber. It is a matter of not rewarding bad behavior. Democrats need to stand up and oppose this nomination. Remember what they did to Merrick Garland.

Desperate Times call for Desperate Gambles

Below is an article that summarizes how one of the poorest towns in the United States, Beattyville Kentucky overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump.

Why did they vote for/gamble on the President? Well, people said that they felt he understood them, that he would not forget them, and he would bring their coal and oil jobs back. They felt that President Obama ignored them even though it is programs like Obamacare (they probably know it is as
Kynect) that are keeping some families above water.

That said, these are the communities that may face the sharpest cuts or reversals if Obamcare is repealed and replaced with a substandard replacement and if Trumps draconian budget proposals find acceptance. While both prospects are doubtful in its current form, this does present an opportunity for Democrats/Progressives to reach out to these communities, re-establish themselves, and propose forward-looking policies that benefit them and the country. Democrats/Progressives should not look let this opportunity slip away. Even reaching a small proportion of these "forgotten" areas would be a victory for progressive values.

https://theintellectualist.co/one-of-nations-poorest-towns-voted-overwhelmingly-for-trump-now-its-residents-are-waiting-for-jobs-to-return/

What the EPA does with the money it receives.

Very interesting article from National Geographic that explains what priorities the Environmental Protection Agency commits to with the funding it gets.

52 percent goes towards clean water. Another 23 percent goes towards land preservation and restoration. A further 12 percent goes towards clean air and seven percent go into healthy ecosystems.

It would defy logic if any scientist or statistician could find a valid random sample of people where the majority would be against where the funding for the E.P.A. goes.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/environmental-protection-agency-budget-cuts/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NEWS&utm_content=link_fbch20170308NEWSenvironmentalprotectionagencybudgetcuts&sf63166210=1

Very interesting article on how Republicans sabotaged Obamacare.

A Very interesting article below on how Republicans, led by Senator Marco Rubio sabotaged Obama Care on high-risk corridors which reimbursed insurance companies that served high-risk regions. This helped create the current situation where one-third of the counties only offer one health care plan for their exchanges (which coincidentally are mostly areas that support the current occupant of the White House as well as most Republican Congresspersons since these are mostly rural and impoverished areas with in some cases high illegal substance rates.) When will people learn that the people they regularly support in elections do not have their best interests at heart and when they advocate freedom, what they are really promoting is more money for the rich because it is in part the higher taxes they pay that help to fund the insurance subsidies they receive.  


http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/thom-hartmann-how-republicans-quietly-sabotaged-obamacare-long-trump-came-office

Editorial Cartoon courtesy of Steve Benson

Editorial Cartoon courtesy of Bruce Plante