Zone of Free Thought

   By Jack Warner The fifteen million Americans that got insurance they didn't have before, and the ten million more that would have been kicked off plans, should be giving the sigh of relief heard round the world. What a thrill it was when watching C-Span this afternoon headed for that 3:30 vote when I saw someone walk to the speaker dais and hand a note to the Pro tempore at 2:29 and I realized they were pulling the bill and Republicans were spared being forced to vote and having an opponent run against that vote no matter which way it went. Their greatest fears would have been Republican primary challengers. Now they get to crawl back in there dark dank cave or holes in the ground waiting until Trump's "no amount of money is enough money" greedmongers call them out again to shill a "Tax Reform" bill. I've heard that in  some obscure ancient language "Tax" means "New" and "reform" means "Gulfstream G600" (N

Many are trying to claim that relatively uneducated, largly poor, most rural, almost entirely lilly white people aren't responsible for trumps election. They often claim that a broad spectrum of people who hated immigration and had overblown terrorism fears weren't addressed by Hillary so they went to trump. There right in that Hillary didn't run a campaign run on fear mongering. They also often try to make number jump through hoops. The median income of trump voters was $72,000/year The median income of all Americans is $56,000/year. Tell me what you think that means? Some are claiming it means that large numbers of voters who were not poor voted for Trump. To me it just means he did get almost all the votes above $250k and the poor white and rural votes pull he number downward to $72k . Of course everyone in the investor class voted for Trump. The investor class votes Republican all the time. But there are not enough of them to win an election. it IS the poor wh