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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Conway and the Hatch Act
Kelleyanne Conway is being requested to testify before the House of Representatives about public statements she made that may have violate the Hatch Act.
In part, the Hatch Act states that no one not paid from the budget allocated for the executive staff of the president can make any statements that can be taken as political in nature.
It doesn't appear that Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, has violated the Hatch Act.
Conway's salary is paid out of the budget for the president.
The house should give up this issue to pursue larger issues that they are on firm ground for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-moves-to-bar-counselor-kellyanne-conway-from-testifying-to-congress-about-alleged-violations-of-hatch-act/ar-AADm008?ocid=se
Monday, June 24, 2019
Corporations and Public Charities Fund Abortion Bans in many States
Charitable organizations should not be attempting to influence legislation at any level. Yet, according to this article and others, charitable organizations helped shaped, support and pass the abortion legislation in Alabama and elsewhere.
Be mindful of these groups. I ask that if you see them somewhere, don't do business with them or don't donate to their cause, not matter how benign it sounds.
If also requested that you speak up. They have decided to enter the political sphere with their support to the Right. They open the door for the Community to respond.
Want a sample of some? How about Amazon, General Electric and Pfizer.
Rewire News
Alex Kotch
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Trump's Immigration Speech
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| Trump telling what I will do, instead of inviting me |
Trump lost me at the first insult. And then, he continued till the end.
Compromise comes from being inviting, not insulting.
I will support none of it. Not till Trump at least is more inviting.
Then we will at least start the conversation.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Process
The Distinguished Civilian Service Awards
Board is a committee that makes recommendations to the President of the United
States for people who should be considered for civil public awards from the
United States.
The history and make up of the committee are
listed below from Wikipedia.
One of the recommendations that the committee
makes is who should be considered for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, pictured to the right. The award was recently bestowed on Tiger
Woods.
Perhaps Woods is a person that should receive
the award but there are problems with the award. He is a close friend with and has business
interest with, President Trump.
Additionally, never in memory has the award given to someone that is
only part of the way through their career.
Note the following from an article about the
event from Huffington Post:
"It's unusual for a president to
give the award, widely considered to be the nation's highest civilian honor, to
a person only midway through their career. It's even more unusual for a
president to give the award to someone he's in business with.
"I can't think of something like this," Kyle C. Kopko, a professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who authored a story on the award, told the New York Times on Sunday of Trump bestowing it on Woods."
In the previous blog post I did cover
how this is a problem because President Trump is enriching his own business
investment by giving the honor to Woods.
Here, I am recommending changes to the
way the award selects its Recipients.
1 The Distinguished Civilian Service Board membership should be selected by the Civil Service Commission.
2 A clear and unbiased criterion should be established for
selection of possible recipients.
3 The award should only be given to people that are recommended by
the Distinguished Cillian Service Board.
4 Any requests made by the president for awarding any honor should
be submitted to the board for review.
This would be a great way to hold the line on the president
awarding a prize to people who support him politically or are business
partners.
Sources
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
This is not right
Bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods not only isn't the right thing to do, it further shows that President Donald Trump is bolstering his investments while in office.
Trump has taken every opportunity to improve his investments while he has been president.
Woods and Trump have a long history of business relationships. The following link to the Huffington Post article about them will provide the details. Most recently, Trump's organization hired Woods to design the new golf course in Dubai. (The course has not opened as of yet.)
In the article, it quotes:
"It's unusual for a president to give the award, widely considered to be the nation's highest civilian honor, to a person only midway through their career. It's even more unusual for a president to give the award to someone he's in business with.
"I can't think of something like this," Kyle C. Kopko, a professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who authored a story on the award, told the New York Times on Sunday of Trump bestowing it on Woods."
President Trump must stop this type of activity.
Sources:
Huffington Post
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tiger-woods-business_n_5cd0647ee4b0e4d757366234
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom
Trump has taken every opportunity to improve his investments while he has been president.
Woods and Trump have a long history of business relationships. The following link to the Huffington Post article about them will provide the details. Most recently, Trump's organization hired Woods to design the new golf course in Dubai. (The course has not opened as of yet.)
In the article, it quotes:
"It's unusual for a president to give the award, widely considered to be the nation's highest civilian honor, to a person only midway through their career. It's even more unusual for a president to give the award to someone he's in business with.
"I can't think of something like this," Kyle C. Kopko, a professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who authored a story on the award, told the New York Times on Sunday of Trump bestowing it on Woods."
President Trump must stop this type of activity.
Sources:
Huffington Post
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tiger-woods-business_n_5cd0647ee4b0e4d757366234
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom
Monday, April 1, 2019
Cutting off Aide to the 3 Mexicos, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Trump is pulling aide from three Central America
countries, El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras. Better
known as the “3 Mexicos” according to a gaff from Fox News. He says they are setting up caravans to proceed
to the United States southern border.
When the caravans arrive, the men, women and children that make up the
migration, are asking for asylum.
The reason people asking for asylum is because
their countries are in complete chaos. Gangs
are running the country and the government seems to not be able to stop them. The money they did receive helped some, but
it wasn’t enough.
Now Trump Boss is pulling it.
"We were
paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we're not paying them anymore.
Because they haven't done a thing for us. They set up these caravans,"
Trump Boss said on recently.
But the reality is something just the opposite. Think about it. I could give a man that lives on the street a
buck every day for a year. At the end of
the year, I decide I am not giving any more support because the man is still on
the street. He hasn’t found someplace to
sleep and hasn’t found a job.
It doesn’t matter if the money wasn’t enough to do
anything, he is still on the street. It
must be his fault.
So now with aide being cut, things will get even
worse. Now they have less money to do a
job that needs more money not less. And, yes, maybe a little better oversite.
So, this makes the Trump Boss look like he is doing
something. His supporters won’t look
deeper than they shouldn’t be getting the money in the first place. This will make him look good when it is time
to be re-elected.
Speaking of re-elected, with aide being cut off,
conditions in the countries will get worse.
More people will now begin the journey to America’s southern
border.
After all the asylum seekers think, if things get
worse in Central America, which they are sure it will now that Trump Boss has
caused chaos in the three Mexicos, the asylum seekers will have less to lose
than before.
Trump Boss will scream and scream about even more
people coming in caravans. He will say; therefore,
we need to continue the wall and why you need to re-elect him because the
Democrats will do nothing about this. They welcome them with open arms.
Now, here is even more danger. Trump Boss has been ithcin’ for a fight somewhere
in the world for some time now. It will
ignite his supporters in passionate support.
The supporters will be screaming that we need to support the president even
more now that we are in a “war”.
As an example, he is making all kinds of threats against
Venezuela. He has even begun to make
threats against the Russia having troops there.
China is joining Russian in support of Venezuela also. Trump Boss attacks against Venezuela are
against the “Socialist” government. He
places himself in a nice position of being against Socialism.
But the problem in Venezuela is that he doesn’t
want a fight with Russia and China. That
will be a losing war for everyone all around.
It certainly will not a quick victory, if any at all. It will be a war that gets nasty and goes on
for years.
But now that Trump Boss has a new target. He has been both verbally and financially attacking
the Three Mexicos. He is telling us that
the countries are setting up the caravans like an invasion.
Trump Boss thinks he could invade some “Banana Republics”
as they were called in the last century.
The excuse would be that they are “sending” caravans of people to the United
States southern border to invade the country, endangering real Americans from
going on about their lives.
Trump Boss will scream, “We have asked them to
stop the caravans. We have even cut off
aide in hopes that they would stop. But
they just keep sending them. This is an
invasion (he has already used that term many times over the years), so we need
to fight back.”
Trump Boss thinks it will be easy pickin’s. It could be just a few days to get to the
capital city of each country. But it
will not be pretty. The citizens of the
countries will revote against the oppressor United States. Plus, even more caravans will be headed north
because they just want out of the country.
Now, instead of just social unrest in the country that they are escaping
from, now it is war.
The United Nationals
will get involved.
This needs to stop right here right now.
No to Rick Scott
Just a quick opinion:
Scott might seem that he would be a good choice to develop a
national healthcare for the United States with his experience operating a large
company that owns plenty of hospitals. With
admission, of course, that a business man would likely be more concerned about
the success of companies that manage healthcare than with patient that use the
system. But, still, he knows his stuff,
right?
Well, that is until the stuff he needs to know is going on
in his own company.
Scott was the CEO of Columbia/HCA when the feds discovered
that millions, perhaps billions were being falsely billed to the government for
service that were not needed or that were never performed. The feds started the investigation at the first
two hospitals that Scott owned. If there
was any place that Scott should have known what was going on under his
supervision, it should have been when the company was small. But that is where the fraud started and spread
throughout the company as it grows to one of the larger hospital companies in
America.
Scott was the CEO the entire time.
Six months after the investigation started, Scott resigned. The board of the company cut a deal, a deal
of $1.7 billion – not million, billion. To
fully disclose, Scott said he wanted to fight it. He said that during the Florida race for
governor.
Nice try to cover up the past.
So, what is the crime here.
Scott’s company, Columbia/HCA admitted guilt to defrauding the government
while Scott was running the place. But Scott
said he didn’t know about it. That might
let me forgive him for one thing – might is an important word here, because I
wouldn’t, but I will say might – the not knowing part.
But the not knowing part is really the core issue.
What, you say?
If you don’t know what is going on in a small company like
just two hospitals, how can you know what is going on in a large organization like
a government healthcare plan?
In my opinion, as a past CEO in a company that defrauded the
government (one that the company cut a deal on) Rick Scott should not be part of
a government plan to develop a healthcare plan.
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