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Pro Tip to Joe Biden: Bringing Manufacturing Back is Not the Cure.

September 9, 2020 By johntmay Leave a Comment

Workers at an appliance manufacturing facility in Louisville Kentucky start at $12 an hour.  The typical Tesla Assembly Line Worker makes $19 per hour in Freemont California where the average rent for an apartment is $2,500 a month.   That … [Read more...]

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Joe Biden is the first Democratic nominee in 36 years without a degree from an Ivy League university.

September 7, 2020 By johntmay 44 Comments

By the time of Mr. Trump’s election, the Democratic Party had become a party of technocratic liberalism more congenial to the professional classes than to the blue-collar and middle-class voters who once constituted its base. In 2016, … [Read more...]

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It’s Your Fault :The System is Not Rigged and is Not to Blame

August 24, 2020 By johntmay 9 Comments

On Fox News this morning, the featured guest was Star Parker and her organization "Urban Cure".  The subject was the removal of certain billboards paid for by the organization and placed in  low income area of Milwaukee.  They say: Tired of … [Read more...]

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New HIT TV Show?

August 15, 2020 By johntmay 4 Comments

IF the media was truly liberal (It's not.  It's corporate) it might be interested in an idea I have for a Hit TV Show! Given the success of Survivorman, You Versus Wild with Bear Grylls, Naked & Afraid, and so many others, why not a … [Read more...]

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It’s Broken

August 9, 2020 By johntmay 7 Comments

When I was in sales, one of my closing remarks was to remind people that "most things are the same when they work, it's when they break that you discover the differences."   If you buy any dishwasher, like all the other dishwashers, it will … [Read more...]

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Parental Alchemy?

July 25, 2020 By johntmay 11 Comments

I visited the campaign web site for Joe Kennedy and found this: The struggle to find reliable, high-quality, and affordable child care is one of the most profound economic justice issues of our time. ...parents need the security of … [Read more...]

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“We’re All in this Together!”….yeah, right.

July 22, 2020 By johntmay 1 Comment

I saw a lawn-sign today that cheerfully proclaimed 'We're All In This Together". We are? I work in retail. I'm 65 years old, asthmatic, high blood pressure, and because I work in a food market, I was considered an "essential worker" … [Read more...]

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We Owe Them Nothing.

July 6, 2020 By johntmay Leave a Comment

As much as I appreciate the brilliant attack ads from the Lincoln Project, as much as I welcome the support from Micheal Steele, members of the Bush family against Trump, and other Republicans now lending their support to the Biden … [Read more...]

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Random Thoughts During the Pandemic

July 1, 2020 By johntmay 1 Comment

Instead of calling grocery store workers "heroes" for putting their health at risk to make sure we all got to eat, how about we agree to pay them all a sustainable wage? The same goes for nursing home workers and all the rest. If now … [Read more...]

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Why was there no looting in Franklin?

June 4, 2020 By johntmay Leave a Comment

Let me begin, on the record, to state that I do not condone looting, arson, or any such illegal acts. Residents of Franklin Massachusetts held a public meeting on the village green to protest the murder of George Floyd. There was no … [Read more...]

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1/3 NY awarded contracts for 2.5 GW of OSW the day before @MassGovernor vetoed the #NextGenClimate bill, which included 2.4 GW of OSW for MA. The result? NY is now positioned as the “undeniable center of gravity” for the E. Coast OSW industry.

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