Muda69

The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most European Nations: https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-richer-than-most-nations-of-europe/

Reduce the size, scope, and power of the federal government by 25% across the board, including every department, office, bureau, service, etc. If the federal government had less power/influence over Americans everyday lives then the avarice and corruption, including $40k stipends for office furniture, would be reduced as well.

*yawn* So once a racist always a racist?

What is your point? That Mr. Trump is a rampant racist because Mr. Thurmond was also? Talk about false equivalency.................

Indiana confirms first presumptive positive case of coronavirus: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/health/2020/03/06/coronavirus-indiana-cases/4973737002/ I had plans to attend an event in the Indianapolis metro area over the weekend. Guess I will have to cancel. Time to buy some more seeds................

https://mises.org/wire/every-tax-needs-expiration-date Bingo. We the people have given the federal government virtually unlimited power over our lives, and the U.S. is in slow decline because of it.

Tri-West students walk out in protest over fired school employee: https://www.theindychannel.com/news/working-for-you/tri-west-students-walk-out-in-protest-over-fired-school-employee Once students were back inside, a group got their bags and walked out, planning to stand outside door 5 in support of Pyatt, the door he often monitored. Students said there were teachers blocking exits in an effort to stop the walkout. The students also said once they left they were not allowed back inside. One student said she forgot her car keys inside and she was not allowed to go inside to get them. "We really respect Mr. Pyatt and we don't think he should have gotten fired," one student said. "I kind of think our school has not been the same and we want it to go back to normal. It's just kind of sad walking into a classroom and feeling like you can't learn because teachers and administrators are so focused on one problem." A communications consultant paid by the district told RTV6 that, "Students need to be in school and can return. All absences are considered unexcused." Students outside the school said they don't know what else to do and the situation has started to impact their day-to-day life at school and their ability to learn. "It's just been really disturbing to see how it has changed our school and changes peoples' lives entirely," a student said. Another student said her message to the school district's leaders is to be more transparent. "You have to stop sweeping things under the rug," she said. "You have to start doing things that are better for students and this community." Sounds like the citizens of Eel River, Middle, and Union townships and the towns of North Salem, Pittsboro and Lizton need to vote out the current school board, replace the administration, and basically start over.

Uni-party to the max.

Warren ends 2020 presidential bid, not endorsing anyone yet: https://apnews.com/7b475643fb3faf2ab543b68da8743308 And then there were two.

COVID-19 Deaths and Incredible WHO Estimates: https://www.cato.org/blog/covid-19-deaths-incredible-who-estimates Indeed it is.

Joe Biden Is No Moderate: https://reason.com/2020/03/04/joe-biden-is-no-moderate/

Paid Family Leave Act Will Raise Taxes: https://reason.com/2020/03/05/paid-family-leave-act-will-raise-taxes/ Once again we have socialists attempting to have the federal government stick it's nose into something where it has no constitutional basis to do so. Why should I in Indiana be forced to to support the paid-leave of another citizen in Oregon, or vice-versa?

Don't these new programs tend to dilute the overall in-state talent pool? Coaches have to fill their roster spots, so now they may be forced to look at "lesser talent" in order to do that.

Yep. Keep those programs down and that means more walk-ons to use as tackle dummies and benchwarmers.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2020/03/04/does-ihsaa-need-add-shot-clocks-indiana-high-school-basketball/4954519002/ Just say no to an Indiana high school basketball shot clock. It is not needed.

Hoping for a VP bid, you think? And was that just about the quickest waste of $500,000,000 in human history?

Reminds me of this story: https://jalopnik.com/two-years-and-180-cars-later-michigan-man-forced-to-se-1837072099

The Perennial Case for School Choice: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/school-choice-perennial-case/

Our Higher Education Problem: Serious but Not Hopeless: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/our-higher-education-problem-serious-but-not-hopeless/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=first Costs are way up, but learning is not. Many students coast through college with scant gains in useful knowledge. What can be done? Vedder favors changes that would make colleges have some “skin in the game” when they take government money and purport to educate students. Incentives would change greatly if colleges had to worry about repaying at least some of the student aid if the student later defaults. Another change he likes is the movement we’re seeing at a few schools towards financing through income-share agreements, whereby investors put up the money for a promising student. That also improves the incentives. And as a parting shot, Vedder suggests that we undo one of our great educational blunders by abolishing the federal Department of Education.

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A middle school requires kids to dance with anyone who asks. One mom is fighting for her daughter’s right to say ‘no.’: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-middle-school-requires-kids-to-dance-with-anyone-who-asks-one-mom-is-fighting-for-her-daughters-right-to-say-no/ar-BB10sDxR Nothing like a little state-mandated forced association. I guess it’s good practice in case she grows up to own a cake shop.

Who said I felt bad?

The Fed just hit the coronavirus panic button: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/investing/federal-reserve-interest-rate-cut-coronavirus-emergency/index.html

There was no Google, nor world wide web as we now know it, when I attended ISU. That said, yes, I can translate said french statement. But I still don't understand the context in which it was typed.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos/americans-keep-buying-cars-but-coronavirus-concerns-loom-over-industry-idUSKBN20P37Y The hit to auto sales in the U.S. probably won't come from the demand side, but from the supply side. It only takes a few 2nd or 3rd tier parts suppliers that get their parts from a factory in the Wuhan province and now can't to disrupt the entire supply chain, all the way down to the assembly plants.