Tag: reason

The president’s job approval ratings are up to around 44%, about as high as they’ve been since he took office. Should you debate the issues of the day? Second, you have some legal protections for discussing politics at work if it relates to your employment conditions. Why add political arguments that are just going to create tension at work to your to-do list? Others say we only actually work for just over two hours a day. You risk alienating valuable colleagues Remember that time when you got into a political argument and, at the end, the other person said, “You know what? You’re right, and you’ve totally changed my mind. Most people don’t want to get into a fight, especially at work. Everyone I know voted for McGovern!” Employers don’t just promote based on how good you are at your current job. Political arguments can do you little good in this, and possibly a lot of harm.

Because the attitudes of Texas Republican voters on immigration issues are taking political precedence over the best interests of the state. Texas polling data shows a negative network of attitudes toward both legal and illegal immigrants among many GOP voters. Any Republican leader who might publicly oppose the census order fears angering these voters — and inciting primary challengers more willing to cater to these Republican ideals. The state’s leadership was playing in tune with their political base: In October 2017 UT/TT polling, 88 percent of Republicans supported requiring local law enforcement officials to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and 69 percent said that officers should always be able to question a person’s immigration status. In the February 2018 UT/Texas Tribune Poll, 62 percent of Republicans expressed the opinion that the United States allows too many people to immigrate here legally, and 49 percent disagreed with the statement that “newcomers from other countries enrich Texas with their hard work and values.” GOP voters’ reservations about the role of immigrants extends to other areas, such as birthright citizenship. But November 2015 UT/TT polling, in the wake of proposals by candidate Trump and other Republicans to repeal birthright citizenship, found that 66 percent of Texas Republicans favored repealing this part of the 14th Amendment. Were immigration competing with other priorities for the attention of Republican voters, there might be potential for state elected officials to redirect voters’ attention toward realistic concerns about defending the flow of federal funds available to the state for social spending, transportation and education. The grounds for the argument hide in plain sight. In the 2016 fiscal year, according to the comptroller’s office, federal funds composed more than a third of state budget revenue at 35.5 percent. Henson is the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas.

From the moment Dan Conner (John Goodman) wakes with a start, we're in a familiar world rarely seen on TV. It's a common phenomenon in American life. Dan laughs. Dan and Roseanne Conner (Roseanne Barr) are a 60-something couple still demonstrably in love with each other. Nobody in the family cares how he dresses at home — "God did not give me this big a head to hold a narrow mind," says Dan — but they worry he'll get beat up. When Mark tells his mother, Darlene (Sara Gilbert), that the bully said he was weird, she says that's ridiculous. This whole family's really weird. The show garnered enormous publicity because both Roseannes, the character and the comedian, voted for Donald Trump. When Jackie comes by to drive Darlene to a job interview, her daughter assures Roseanne that everything will be fine. And as Darlene counsels Mark, from someone's perspective, we're all weird.

Adolescents are notoriously difficult to reason with. Canada has 36 million people. The U.S. has more than 326 million people. The news has been filled for years with horror stories about wait times and poor care (or no care) within Veterans' Affairs (despite its $200 billion budget) and the Indian Health Service. If the government cannot provide care for 9 million veterans (those actually enrolled in the VA health care system) or 5.2 million Native Americans, what makes anyone think they can provide it for 330 million Americans? Politicians' cost projections are always wrong. Current projections put the costs of Sanders' proposal at $32 trillion dollars. In practical terms, this will means tens of millions more people streaming into the country demanding "free" health care. When the funding deficits hit -- as they always do -- then the public discovers the first hard truth: Single-payer isn't a health care provision system; it is a health care rationing system. There are always unanticipated problems, and government is too big to respond nimbly or change quickly, even when the need is great.