Three
giant companies have combined forces to form a new health care company. It’s Warren Buffet and that Diamond guy from
Chase Bank, and Amazon. Since we know
that competition drives down prices, prices for regular health insurance will
come down so it’s a break for consumers.
But also on the NYSE all of the other health care provider stocks went
down by an average of six percent.
Strangely Donald Trump in his message last evening spoke of bringing
drug prices down for the average consumer.
This is strange in that they all worked so hard to insure that prices
remained high because of that thing on Medicare part D passed under George
Bush. Also it’s strange that the
president announced a war on Opiates because as we know from Sixty Minutes and
other sources, congress worked so hard to cripple the food and drug
administration in enforcing illicit drug laws.
The thing to do now is just wait and see what happens.
Last
night I smoked a cigarette at almost five thirty when the ABC network news came
on. I knew the news would be a preview
of the State of the Union message. I
smoked another cigarette right at six.
They seemed to spend less time showing the supreme court justices file
in and also the cabinet secretaries. I
don’t know who the “out” man is this year but the place didn’t get bombed so it’s
a mute point now. The speech began about
ten after six to my recollection and lasted till 7:32 making it an 82 minute
speech, which is almost a record, but they say Clinton spoke longer. The early part of the speech was about half
applause. In fact this speech has more applause per capita than just about any
presidential speech. Of course Trump
talked about economic activity being at record levels and the stock market is
at new highs. He also said that Black
and Latino unemployment is at low levels never before recorded since they’ve
been keeping records. Does that include
the Viet Nam war? Also the President
said that unemployment claims are at low levels never before recorded. Wages are on the rise. But they’ve still got a long way to go to
make up for the past thirty years. There were endless statements about how strong
America is today. Of course Trump
praised his tax cut plan with congress that they just passed. There were endless personal references to
people in the audience who stood up and the President talked about them to
illustrate every point. He talked about
the dreamers and how he really wants the democrats to work with
republicans. There are three things the
democrats hate about this bill, aka three of the four “pillars” of this
immigration bill, one of then which is building the Wall at the border. One thing the President has dropped in his
reference is “Making Mexico pay for it”.
There were numerous references to personal heroics in the extreme
weather we’ve had such asx fires, floods, and hurricanes. One would get the impression that the
President is doing everything he can to help Puerto Rico. And then he moved on to foreign policy. He wants congress to insure that the supply
of criminals to Guandanamo Bay doesn’t dry up by talking about “enemy
combatants” rather than just simple “criminal acts” when it comes to American
citizens who commit acts of terrorism. He rightly pointed out that ISIS is close to becoming a thing of the past because our troops have had success in wiping them out. He wants to work to blow up the nuclear treaty
with Iran. He talked about "changing the rules of engagement" with troops in Afghanistan, and also spoke of "not telling the enemy our plans in advance". Then he talked about North
Korea and mention that college student who was tortured by the North Koreans
and eventually he died shortly after his release. There was another guy who apparently had his
legs cut off by a passing train and had to use crutches till he could get
prosthetics. He concluded by talking
about the statue of the goddess Columbia.
I went outside after the speech.
Nancy said it was the best speech President Trump has ever given. She liked it.
This got me to thinking. Perhaps
I myself should be less quick to judge this speech because what if the American
agrees with Nancy’s assessment?
President
Trump wants an unacceptable deal for approving DACA. He wants to reduce the overall number of
legal immigrants to this country by eliminating various provisions that allow
relatives to come in too. Usually
Republicans love to talk about waiting in line legally and how the illegals
shouldn’t move ahead of them. But now
Trump has made his priorities clear. He
wants more white people in the country and few dark skinned people. Therefore he’s getting rid of the immigration
lottery that is impartial. Instead he
wants a so called “merit based system”, which probably involved passing certain
“white” credentials that blacks could never pass. So basically if I were the democrats instead
of shouting “you lie” I’d just raise my fist in the Black Power salute. Or maybe what you could do is shout “you lie”
in unicin to a clear falsehood of Donald Trump’s speech or go the Republicans
one better and do it multiple times.
The Orion Federation is not going to put out
any CD’s connected with the President’s speech.
They were going to do one called 5150 snf it was going to time out at
51:50 and have four rock songs on the CD.
But their stratigests thought that would be a bad idea and it “really
wouldn’t prove anything”. Sometimes it’s
better to have a watch and wait stratigy not only for this, but for forming opinions
in general.
