-
DQ
Hillbilly wisdom: Point of reference or perspective determines your outlook. For many a reference to DQ brings happy thoughts of ice cream in various combinations. Today, I wish to follow up on having your cake and eating it too. Today, DQ means dumb questions and I have some. There is… Read more.
-
U.S. deal maker
Hillbilly version: If you don’t have something positive to trade, then you have nothing and revenge or negative tactics will not instill trust in your trading partners. In the short run intimidation,coercion or force might get contracts signed but in our system we do not recognize the validity of contracts… Read more.
-
Power to adjourn
Hillbilly version:the power of the president to adjourn the congress has never been used. Look out! If the power exist, it will be used. The speaker sent his colleagues home early or earlier than expected. Thus the power of the speaker to set or control the agenda. One of my… Read more.
-
Divine intervention
Hillbilly version: Close your ears. Can you believe parents place their hands over the child’s ears to prevent them from hearing questionable comments? Do you believe? Some topics are so sensitive, almost to the point of exclusion, that feelings are hurt. So my question might offend but it is a… Read more.
-
Outsourcing of government jobs
Hillbilly version: you never know who you are talking to. This story starts with a notification that your direct deposit will be moved to your new bank per your instructions. This is the first you have heard of this and they forgot to tell you the bank to which it… Read more.
-
Lawsuits about education
Hillbilly version: it doesn’t apply unless it affects me. ,The New School in Fayetteville cost vary (early childhood- Per K) tuition is 16,515. Kindergarten through 12th grade is 17,660. Not many poor families will be attending as most cannot pay the difference between what the state pays *EFA educational freedom… Read more.
-
Power to set the agenda
Hillbilly wisdom: did you see the news last evening? The fourth estate’s power to report and control the dialogue has been diminished by the current administration. TRUE or FALSE? Or is the administration and the media working together? Between the two parties we are given our dialogue.We could examine what… Read more.
-
Public money and private education
Hillbilly version: Do you really expect to improve education if you take money for schools and give it to other institutions. Separate but equal does not apply, now or in the past. The poor cannot afford private schools with increased tuitions. The poor will be confined to the public schools.… Read more.
-
Can you afford to trade?
Hillbilly version: the United States has not had a trade surplus since 1975. We buy more than we sell. Trump assures us that we don’t need them- trading partners. Do they need us? With the added cost of tariffs it might be more profitable for them to trade with others-… Read more.
-
Violence as foreign policy
Hillbilly wisdom: violence as defensive measure is ok. To protect our interest “national security” we engage in limited warfare in other places. Not only do we have the ability to attack you but we will. Then we demand certain behaviors. Some call it bargaining or making a deal. And everything… Read more.
Open to Anything 