via A shocking number of Americans never leave home
Take away:
- 54% have been to 10 or fewer states
- 11% never left their home state
- 40% never left the country
- Sadly 76% want to travel and 60% have specific travel destinations in mind.
Research says septuagenarians struggle with new tasks. That’s bad news for several 2020 candidates.
https://wapo.st/2Vvvi3v
via Trump’s ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon – POLITICO
I was just there last week, I’m thankful this a**wipe didn’t sully it during my visit.
Lotteries manifest all the elements of bad taxation
https://wapo.st/2G1l4Bh
To be clear, ACA healthcare subsidies benefit the insurance industry and big pharma, not us.
via Medicare for All is the only reasonable way to fix US health system
Filed under: obvious.
via Why it’s so hard to give up ridesharing – CNN
They are hard to give up because they are artificially cheap, fueled and subsidized by venture (vulture?) capital.
In a few years, after destroying public transportation, prices will increase to whatever the likes of Uber and Lyft desire as there will be no other option. This is a scheme as large and diabolical as Goodyear/GM buying and shutting down the light rail systems of the past. Our government officials, sworn to uphold the law, are complicit.
