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Lots of good stuff. Does the voc ed you mention involve tech training in computers skills like coding? R&D?

 

I remember Roger Smith's comment that GM was not in business to make cars; that it was in business to make money. He delivered the Vega. Quality has improved since, and technology has most to do with that.

Voc Ed should include any relevant training for young people to learn a skill/trade that they can put to work immediately. It might be computer coding (heh, I still remember running punch cards through a computer back in the day) carpentry, plumbing, electricity....whatever. Too much emphasis is put on a college education, which necessarily includes liberal arts....music, history, philosophy....all just useless college credits paid for by the credit hour and with no real benefit in life.

 

Don't get me wrong. We still need to have kids who learn about liberal arts. But what we need more in Michigan right now is more vocational training...young folks who can frame a house, weld and fix cars.

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Trump complained about how much Obama spent on vacations. We have paid more in one month for Trump's Family Fun than what Obama charged up in a year. He uses the coast guard to patrol his Florida Resort yet he wants to cut their funding to protect our borders. He really is a selfish person, not looking out for anyone but himself.He points out where others waste money but wastes more than any president on record and there's no signs of it ending. 

 

Whether you voted for him or not, hold his feet to the fire, it's the right thing to do. 

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Voc Ed should include any relevant training for young people to learn a skill/trade that they can put to work immediately. It might be computer coding (heh, I still remember running punch cards through a computer back in the day) carpentry, plumbing, electricity....whatever. Too much emphasis is put on a college education, which necessarily includes liberal arts....music, history, philosophy....all just useless college credits paid for by the credit hour and with no real benefit in life.

 

Don't get me wrong. We still need to have kids who learn about liberal arts. But what we need more in Michigan right now is more vocational training...young folks who can frame a house, weld and fix cars.

Trades and specialized skills that require only short training or hands on experience, viz., apprenticeships and mentored training outside an institution of learning, are all fine and good. I do not, however, see them as adequate to employ the numbers of people manufacturing did in our lifetimes. We do absolutely need carpenters, electricians, coders, et al., and it is, I think,  fair to say the labor force is very much saturated with them already. Too many and competition will render those poorly paying jobs. Technology plays too. I remember using a roofing hatchet and sky hooks (and punch cards). Many people do not know what those are. Remember the dark ages before wire welding? Pneumatic nailers have eliminated not only roofing jobs, but others in structural building. Mechanical equipment is ubiquitous. More efficient materials have come into use that arrive on a job site ready to install without assembly. Even now I know many people who work in those jobs on the cheap, and I don't have to look far. Even licensed and insured contractors face heavy competition. For instance, I had four large trees removed last summer. The bids I got ranged between $600.00 and $1800.00. I chose the lowest bid and had more done than the high bidder wanted to offer. People working off the radar play into it too. Paying someone ten dollars an hour is common and always has been for many repairs and remodels. Hell. When I was young the threat that uneducated and untrained people would have to dig ditches was common in the vernacular. Now one guy operates a ditcher with no one else in sight. Ditch diggers have been displaced. That's okay I guess. We still need people to bring us food and clean up our mess.

 

We have entered an era where specialized training in more highly skilled jobs is essential to reach and continue full employment at living wages. The medical field comes immediately to mind. Those who prefer to work with materials and systems would do best in engineering fields and manage technologically controlled material handling and systems. Those who do not train themselves will continue to suffer and lose ground as their jobs disappear.

 

Populists that insist we can go back to the kinds of work that were once commonplace are misguided and mistaken, and have become, at least for the time being, drivers of the ship of state. Jose Ortega y Gasset's "Revolt of the Masses" was prescient and historically accurate when written in 1929. It describes the nature and effects of the democratized, poorly educated population, dubbed "the mass man," that has become the loudmouthed and demanding movement that we find ourselves hostage to. Its retrograde views of industry, morality, religion, women, minorities, the environment, and certain other facets of their and our lives are at odds with progress. How long it will last, and it will fade again as it has historically, remains to be seen. Progress in the face of reactionary populism is difficult and moves ahead incrementally with those attitudes clawing at our pant legs. From Revolt: " "The Fascist and Syndicalist species were characterized by the first appearance of a type of man who 'did not care to give reasons or even to be right, but who was simply resolved to impose his opinions. That was the novelty: the right not to be right, not to be reasonable: 'the reason of unreason.'" (Chapter 8: Why the Masses Intervene in Everything and Why They Always Intervene Violently)."

 

I have heard ad nauseam the arguments against humanities in colleges.There was a chemistry professor who had a ball with it, and had names for those people that were not kind. As a practical matter, sure, train people in functional fields. Humanities are nonetheless essential, and are lost on the mouth breathing knuckle draggers. Without them we are directionless. The need to study and understand history cannot be overstated. In philosophy there are ethical systems for the critical thinker who cannot buy the rote and mind numbing dictates of religion to consider. The mass man apparently does not care as long as his beer is cold, his teevee is working, and porn is at his fingertips.

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Now this is a HUGE Trump reality check;

 

Yesterday I heard Trump say in a press conference;

 

It's really hard to get anything to pass when you have a whole party against you.

 

Oh the irony. Obama had 8 years of that. Republicans were the party of 'NO' for 8 years just because they didn't like Obama. They voted 'NO' to everything. Even when Obama proposed things that the Republicans were 'for' they instantly became 'against' if it was put forth by President Obama. 

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Once again I state if anybody who is a caregiver and voted for Trump you have to give up your caregiver rights . I say this because if you are dumb enough to let a clown like Trump make Jefferson Sessions AG a known Marijuana hater and everyone who voted Trump knew he was picking Sessions as AG because your clown and chief said he was making a known Marijuana hater AG BEFORE the election hang your heads a quit conning people and quit as caregivers. Why on earth would any caregiver vote in a party that wants to take away all OUR hard work of the last 8 years and give it to their rich friends? I talked to some caregivers who voted for Trump and they were the dumbest people I ever met, they so called caregivers were worrying about losing their beloved guns lol nobody is that dumb that they thought the gov. could ever take OUR guns away. Again you voted for a party that was a known MMMP hater you have to quit you traitors.

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House GOP Votes To Allow ISPs To Sell Personal Browsing Information

The House of Representatives passed a resolution today overturning an Obama-era FCC rule that required internet providers to get customers’ permission before sharing their browsing history with other companies. The rules also required internet providers to protect that data from hackers and inform customers of any breaches.

 

The resolution was first passed by the Senate last week and now heads to the president, who’s expected to sign it. At that point, there’ll only be a vague baseline of privacy rules governing internet providers and some promises from them not to misbehave.

 

 

 

I'm not sure which is more terrible. Selling browsing data or concealing hackers' breaches into customer accounts.

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Crowdfunding campaign seeks to purchase search history of lawmakers who killed internet privacy

 

Republicans in Congress just voted to allow Americans’ browser history to be bought and sold. A genius crowdfunding campaign wants to use that against them.

 

The website searchinternethistory.com is attempting to raise $1 million in order to put in bids to purchase the internet history of leading Republicans and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) members. The first histories the site aims to buy are those of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

 

“If it takes a million dollars to get real change, I am sure a million people are willing to donate $1 to help ensure their private data stays private,” wrote Adam McElhaney, who launched a GoFundMe campaign for the endeavor.

 

McElhaney clarified on the GoFundMe campaign’s site that while he understands the privacy risks of using social media, the privacy rules Congress just eliminated goes far beyond what he feels is acceptable.

 

“I understand that what I put on the Internet is out there and not private. Those are the risks you assume. I’m not ashamed of what I put out on the Internet,” he wrote. “However, I don’t think that what I lookup on the Internet, what sites I visit, my browsing habits, should be bought and sold to whoever. Without my consent.”

 

McElhaney, who describes himself as “a privacy activist & net neutrality Advocate,” argues that since both houses of Congress have passed bills allowing anyone’s browser history to be sold and purchased by major telecom giants like Verizon, that the American people should be able to buy the browser records for their elected officials. If successful, the site aims to publish a searchable database of browser history for every member of Congress who voted to gut former President Barack Obama’s regulations prohibiting corporations from viewing Americans’ browser histories.

 

“Everything from their medical, pornographic, to their financial and infidelity. Anything they have looked at, searched for, or visited on the Internet will now be available for everyone to comb through,” the site promises, next to a survey of which public official’s browser history should be published first. “Since we didn’t get an opportunity to vote on whether our private and personal browsing history should be bought and sold, I wanted to show our legislators what a democracy is like. So, I’m giving you the opportunity to vote on whose history gets bought first.”

 

“Help me raise money to buy the histories of those who took away your right to privacy,” McElhaney adds.

Those who don’t have the means to donate money to the campaign are being asked to donate any legal skills they may have, so the site’s administrators can navigate around the tricky legal battlefield of purchasing and publishing the internet history of some of the most powerful people in the United States.

As of this writing, the campaign has raised more than $56,000.

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I have the distinct feeling that this was already happening. 

 

It definitely was,... but Obama had just implemented the protections.  in like 2015. We fought hard for that privacy.

 

Not only privacy, but sketchy corporate nonsense.  Like this for example,... an ISP provider can control your search results.  Not just what comes out on top like the google algorithm, but when they see you search in the search bar, they will pre run your search through their corporate sponsor list, and if there are matches, you are sent directly to their corporate interests website instead of given the search results.

 

THAT is the stuff I am freaking out about. 

 

Or hidden "SuperCookies" hidden for full corporate tracking purposes.

 

Ick.....

 

The bill not only gives cable companies and wireless providers free rein to do what they like with your browsing history, shopping habits, your location and other information gleaned from your online activity, but it would also prevent the Federal Communications Commission from ever again establishing similar consumer privacy protections.

The bill is an effort by the F.C.C.’s new Republican majority and congressional Republicans to overturn a simple but vitally important concept — namely that the information that goes over a network belongs to you as the consumer, not to the network hired to carry it. It’s an old idea: For decades, in both Republican and Democratic administrations, federal rules have protected the privacy of the information in a telephone call. In 2016, the F.C.C., under President Barack Obama, extended those same protections to the internet.

 

 

Here’s one perverse result of this action. When you make a voice call on your smartphone, the information is protected: Your phone company can’t sell the fact that you are calling car dealerships to others who want to sell you a car. But if the same device and the same network are used to contact car dealers through the internet, that information — the same information, in fact — can be captured and sold by the network. To add insult to injury, you pay the network a monthly fee for the privilege of having your information sold to the highest bidder.

 
This bill isn’t the only gift to the industry. The Trump F.C.C. recently voted to stay requirements that internet service providers must take “reasonable measures” to protect confidential information they hold on their customers, such as Social Security numbers and credit card information. This is not a hypothetical risk — in 2015 AT&T was fined $25 million for shoddy practices that allowed employees to steal and sell the private information of 280,000 customers.
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Trump signs bill killing Obama-era worker safety rule

 

 

Who could be against fair pay and safe workplaces? Give you one guess.

 

President Trump just signed a bill, passed by the Republicans in the House and Senate, that repealed President Obama's Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order.

 

"Fair pay and safe workplaces" says it all. The rule stated that our government should contract with companies that have "a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics."

 

It required companies to report if they had violations of workplace laws covering wage theft, discrimination and safety, when applying for new government contracts of $500,000 to $1 million. The federal procurement officers would take that into consideration, and work with the companies to remedy the problems.

 

That is what President Trump and the Republicans repealed. This Trump/Republican government does not care if companies have "a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics." In fact, repealing this rule signals to companies that it is OK to "save money" by stealing pay from employees, violating their civil rights and threatening their safety.

 

This rule was a big deal, because companies that get federal contracts employ one in five American workers.

 

This is the Republicans, not just Trump. This is who they are.

 

But, of course, the "working class" voters who helped elect Trump and the Republicans all voted for this, right? They all clearly understood that electing Republicans meant that their pay and civil rights and job-safety were going to be rolled back so that the giant corporations could pass ever-higher profits to their "investors." Right?

 

Of course they did. And they understood that the things our government does to make our lives better would be rolled back so that investor class could get huge tax cuts. Right? Of course they did.

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Trump Reality Check;

 

This one is actually a Trump Check.

 

15,000+ operatives were paid by Russia(Trump?) to spread fake news on the internet to help Trump win the election.

 

If you supported Trump and didn't get your check then you got ripped off. 

 

There's evidence coming in that these same operatives were used in the R primary to help Trump win that.

 

I think the whole thing was pretty funny for R's when it was just Hillary getting hacked by the Russians. 

 

How funny is it now when you find out your choices for president were formed by fake news?

 

You were forced to vote for Donald Trump. How do you like him now?

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Trump signs repeal of U.S. broadband privacy rules

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-trump-idUSKBN1752PR

 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed a repeal of Obama-era broadband privacy rules, the White House said, a victory for internet service providers and a blow to privacy advocates.

 

Republicans in Congress last week narrowly passed the repeal of the privacy rules with no Democratic support and over the strong objections of privacy advocates.

 

The signing, disclosed in White House statement late on Monday, follows strong criticism of the bill, which is a win for AT&T Inc, Comcast Corp and Verizon Communications Inc.

 

The bill repeals regulations adopted in October by the Federal Communications Commission under the Obama administration requiring internet service providers to do more to protect customers' privacy than websites like Alphabet Inc's Google or Facebook Inc.

 

The rules had not yet taken effect but would have required internet providers to obtain consumer consent before using precise geolocation, financial information, health information, children's information and web browsing history for advertising and marketing.

 

Republicans later this year are expected to move to overturn net neutrality provisions that in 2015 reclassified broadband providers and treated them like a public utility - a move that is expected to spark an even bigger fight.

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