Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Trump is planning a unilateral Space Force. I believe he will weaponize lasers. The UN has a role with this.

The IAEA has to be expanded to include weaponized space warfare. Basically, a resolution no different than that of the nuclear resolutions to inspect and order deactivation of any hardware with the potential of turning current peaceful international space missions STANDARDS into a potential of war.

Earth must be a peaceful place where people are safe from technology with consequences that kill. The only warfare that should be tolerated is conventional warfare and non-proliferation pursued vigorously.
There were crimes committed by Russia that the FBI was investigating before Trump took office.

Trump then tells the FBI he believes Putin and it RIGHTFULLY raises red flag with the investigation. Trump implicated himself when he sided with Putin. There is no doubt the FBI had more red flags raised when Jim Comey was then fired by Tweet when the investigation of Flynn was not dropped. 

What the American people need to realize regarding ANY of these resignations and firings is that we have invested a great deal of our brain trust in growing dedicated members of our intelligence community and Trump is trashing that for his own political purposes. 

So, while Andrew McCabe’s accounting is exceptionally alarming, he is also a very valuable member of this country’s intelligence community that is being diminished to the cronies for Trump. THAT also services Russia’s purpose.
If it took Trump and his greed to bring William Weld to the race for the presidency then it was worth the wait. He was a great governor. He will change the debate and demand real solutions and not internet garble.
It is very possible to bring down the cost of higher education in the USA. It is easy to track the ridiculous increases in tuition for the past two decades. Every time there was an increase in lending and grant amounts by the federal government, universities and colleges increased their tuition.

The reason Pell Grants were increased was to keep up with cost of books and housing, but, the final translation resulted in an increase in tuition. That increase would result in more increases in the student loan limit which would result in more tuition increases. The past two decades are the most exploitive cost based tuition in the history of the country. 

Additionally, public institutions were targeted by the construction lobby and then college fees would increase for the new building that was just erected. The entire paradyme of tuition cost increases can be tracked directly with federal monies for student loans and grants. It was ridiculous to see Congress act like an economic lap dog to the dynamics of higher education in the country.

There is no reason why spending limit increases for colleges can’t be applied to tuition, housing and fees for universities and colleges accepting loans and grants and COSTS drastically reduced.

To say there can be no or will be no improvement to the cost of higher education is to pander to those that have no plans for education but to privatize it and put it out of reach of most Americans.

The only exception to that was California that does back flips to maintain reasonable tuition costs for students and families.