We are currently in declaration season for the upcoming elections in 2020. Elections are going to decide state legislatures, several governoships, the entire House, and 1/3 of the Senate. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this election. Here are my thoughts: President We have the best slate of candidates for President we could …
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Bloomberg on retirement
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-06-13/world-s-retirees-risk-running-out-of-money-a-decade-before-deathI have written a big on this issue before, and if you search my social security label on my blog you will see why I am highly critical of Americas retirement system. When designing a retirement system which works for ALL, there are a few key ideas I believe will help make something which works …
6 point economic plan to save the middle class
There are some serious problems in the current American economic system which hold the middle class back. All of these policy decisions reduce income mobility and hold our economy back. Here are what I see from my life as the biggest problems in the American system which hold Americans back: Our health care system has …
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How to do ranked voting for the President
I just had an idea as I am on the bus listening to Hamilton about how we could do the Presidential election using ranked voting. The President is very obvious, we vote for the President and rank them by number using IRV. This is the most fair system since having more than 2 parties is …
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Trump’s summary of the Mueller Report is bullshit
I am supposed to believe someone who was handpicked by a man who was just under investigation for two years that there was indeed interference in our election by a foreign enemy power (Russia), but that after repeated attempts to reach out to the Trump campaign, the Trump campaign said no and the Russians continued …
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Status of the 2020 election as of February 2019
This is proving to be one of the most crowded presidential primaries in a very long time. Only paying attention to governors and Senators (because those are the ones with an actual possibility of winning) we have: Cory Booker Kirsten Gillibrand Kamala Harris Amy Klobuchar Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren 6% of the Senate, and 12.8% …
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Fight Global Warming
Cut American emission in half Overview: EIAOverview of sources: EIA Where we need to do the most work: 50% of Northeast Ohio’s emissions come from electricity production. Geothermal plants could reduce this significantly. gcbl Wyoming has the most emissions per capita. 57% of their energy is for housing. Geothermal heating could significantly reduce emissions in …
Green New Deal
Representative Ocasio-Cortez presented her green new deal plan this week, and it s a non binding resolution. This is useful to give a signal which representatives are going for support a more es expansive policy, but it still leaves out details on how to do it. Wired did a fantastic job outlining the policy. She …
Why climate policy is stalled in Olympia
There has been a lot of talk over the last couple years about carbon taxation due to the work that I did along with friends of mine at Carbon Washington for Initiative 732, the first and most progressive carbon tax proposal in American history. We based it off of the highly successful carbon tax which …
Today’s musings
Today’s ban on transgender folk serving in the military is disheartening, and is going to make a lot of people upset. On top of that I witnessed a Lummi woman being poorly represented by her public defender in court today, and wish I had known where to refer her to get proper legal assistance. I …