PROGRESSIVE DISCUSSION - Monday 10-16-17

......Robert Reich......
Ariel Dorfman provides a useful list of ways Trump and his administration are shortening the lives of Americans:
1. An estimated 2.3 million American construction workers, miners, and road-crew laborers face life-threatening injury and illness because The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has delayed the enforcement of rules protecting them from silica dust, which is incontrovertibly linked to increases in cancer and lung disease.
2. Deaths will rise among those who toil in shipyards and on construction sites because a regulation created by the Obama administration to reduce exposure to the carcinogen beryllium has been reversed.
3. Miners are at greater risk because inspections in coal mines to identify hazards have been curtailed.
4. Families in Appalachia will be further endangered because the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have been ordered to stop studying how pollutants produced by mountaintop-removal mining may lead to increased rates of cancer, birth defects and respiratory disease.
5. The lives of millions will be shortened because more than 30 rules safeguarding Americans from pollution have been rolled back: they will slowly die from increased heavy metal effluents in waterways; they will die if emission standards for vehicles are relaxed; they will die because chemical spills will be more frequent and our water, air, and soil less clean.
6. More children will get ill and die if parents opt out of immunization programs encouraged by the president’s reckless promotion of the completely debunked “theory” about a link between vaccination and autism, a belief seconded by Tom Price, until recently the head of Health and Human Services, who once said that “vaccines are the equivalent of human experimentation.”
7. In addition, millions more will die prematurely because Trump by executive order has cut health insurance subsidies by $7 billion – thereby forcing insurers to raise premiums or co-payments, and making insurance unaffordable. And he is allowing insurers to offer fewer benefits, which will harm people with pre-existing health problems.
8. And a large number of children will lack the health coverage they need if the Children's Health Insurance Program runs out of money, which is soon to happen.
We are the richest nation in the world, and richer than we've ever been. This is barbaric.
What do you think?

I hear you Joyce. It's shame on us as a country to let this FM get away with this & even more shameful that Congress sits on its azzes & does nothing because they are so afraid to challenge him & jeapordize their seats in Congress. I honestly am at the point that I don't see anyone or anything that is going to happen to change this course of history! Just damn sad! 😢

The "god" they worship is named "Money and Power." They are both disgusting.

The JA says there is no such thing as Obamacare anymore. He's right, because he destroyed it out of sheer, petty jealousy.

I hope they play him saying there is no more Obamacare over & over on a loop on every darn station...Its now time to call it Trumpcare!!!!!....But, oh, that will get under his thin skin & he'll still blame Obama!!! TRUMPCARE TRUMPCARE TRUMPCARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....

The biggest spreader of Fake News... He puts this out there, then when pressed on it, he says" that's what I was told".... Oh good grief,


verifiedpolitics.com/trump-obama-rarely-called-dead-soldiers-families-obamas-nsa-deputys-response-brutal/

Linda......so very JA. Gets caught red handed and lies "it's not my fault, that's what I was told."

Beyond disgusting.

Just a word that may brighten our day.

Friend of ours, that voted for Trump, apologized last week to us. Too late, but that attitude may help the midterm election.
(yes, we remained friends throughout this mess)