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by Shtal on 11 November 2016 - 21:11
vk4 wrote: I do feel a bit sorry that the majority of people in the country voted for one candidate and the other one gets in, interesting democracy.
Vk4, you are missing the picture here...the striking difference between the election’s ultimate loser and its winner. If you know US history vk4, back in 2000 the most recent case of Republican George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Democrat Al Gore by 547,398. However, the electoral college result was far closer than Trump and Clinton’s matchup, with Bush claiming 271 to Gore’s 266 but Bush still won the election back then.

by Shtal on 12 November 2016 - 00:11
Here is your answer!!
by vk4gsd on 12 November 2016 - 01:11
Shtal I never watch yr stupid videos.
Just because it happened with gore/Bush does not make it any less an interesting take on democracy where the majority of people voting lose the election.
We have a gerrymander so some of the most backward uneducated voters in very small numbers have the most voting power.
A one vote one value movement has been fighting it.
I mean you have a democracy based on the will of the voters or you have some other thing.
by beetree on 12 November 2016 - 01:11
Something like that.

by Shtal on 12 November 2016 - 02:11
Lol @Vk4
Stupid videos?
Here is what Trump wants to do in his first 100 day's? http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days

by GSD Admin on 12 November 2016 - 07:11
Here is Icky being well Icky. He complains about the protesters when he is elected but look what he said when Obama was elected. I wouldn't bet on anything he says past, present or future.
Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016
by vk4gsd on 12 November 2016 - 07:11
by beetree on 12 November 2016 - 12:11
He isn't being threatened, he won. He wants to be a winning President, too. He had to stop the divisive rhetoric, and so he has. And Wall Street is loving it. Surely, he is aware of that power he has, too.
Bringing up the past is a losing strategy, he is all about the future now.
by beetree on 12 November 2016 - 14:11
Obamacare, hmm.Trump now agrees on two points. Fixing that and keeping what remains, namely pre-existing conditions that are the biggest source of expenditures, and the main reason to have insurance in the first place. Also, allowing adult children to remain on their parents' coverage until age 26. That one makes sense because they are a low risk group with a high rate of non participation. So, effectively the fine for not joining a plan would be eliminated.
The big problem to solve first, is the reporting of actual services used vs. their real cost to implement.
As it stands now, that information is not mandatory:
"...only 20 states have reported this measure for the past two years, coming up short of the minimum threshold of 25 states required for CMS to publish state-level data and rank state performance."
(http://ccf.georgetown.edu/2016/07/25/recommended-changes-2017-child-core-set-health-care-quality-measures/)
That must be key to actually fixing the funding for the neediest in services and least ability to pay. How to approach healthcare as an individual's responsibilty and not the governments, needs a tie in. The California stats for CHIP, which her campaign had Hillary taking most of the credit (it ranks as mostly true in fact checking, a few grey areas exist.) show an incredible number of (more minority) children who do not get their preventative care checkups, even when covered.

by GSD Admin on 12 November 2016 - 14:11
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