Good technologies are things that enable men to do cool stuff. Things like stirrups and fighter planes. Bad technologies are things that make men who do cool stuff obsolete. Things like barbed wire and drones.
Congratulations @DrJBhattacharya on your nomination as Director of the National Institutes of Health!
Kamala could retire her campaign debt and then some by starting a cooking show
FEMA motel vouchers run out tomorrow. A lot of people are going to be thrown out in the cold. A shame and disgrace.
One of the single biggest problems in delivering healthcare in this country is illegal immigrants going to the emergency room over the most mundane of sicknesses because by law an ER can’t refuse treatment and so it functions as de facto free healthcare.
Meanwhile people with serious emergency conditions often face 4+ hour wait times and many give up and go home. Far too many die as a result.
Meanwhile people with serious emergency conditions often face 4+ hour wait times and many give up and go home. Far too many die as a result.
On top of the wait times/bed shortage, this dynamic burns many doctors and nurses out. So not only are patients dealing with the capacity problems, the quality of the care when they finally get it is often degraded.
USAID food assistance programs are sold as “feeding the starving kids” initiatives but in reality are huge giveaways to domestic Big Ag interests. Flooding underdeveloped nations with free food just puts their farmers out of business and is a major driver of emigration.
I am considering a run for governor of Virginia on a platform of promoting public art and beautification, building a wall on our northern border, taking back the Potomac River and all Western Counties, and overturning the ban on consanguineous marriage between first cousins.
National Parks, National Forests, and our other great federal recreation and wilderness lands should be well funded and staffed and treated like the crown jewels they are. Seize the university endowments or something if you need to find funding for them but fund them and fix them. I have a vision of new CCC and Ranger programs that would be really great for our country.
We need a deep reform of the concession system in our National Parks. Delaware North is not delivering great hospitality and I hear Aramark has been slipping too. These concessions should be given to smaller local enterprises, and there shouldn’t be park-wide monopolies.