“The cost of the pandemic in the US alone will be $16.12 trillion ... including nearly $7.6 trillion in lost GDP, nearly $4.4 trillion in the cost of deaths, $2.6 trillion in longer-term health impairment, and nearly $1.6 trillion in mental-health impacts.
Testing and tracing would cost less than on…”
- JIM H
“Every one of these people are infinitely more qualified to serve as president of the United States than the current occupant of the white house. I have a limited budget for campaign contributions. So I am withholding campaign contributions for Presidential candidates until the democratic party has d…”
- JIM H
“No Americans should be allowed to participate in the persecution of civilian populations nor military or police units protecting those civilian populations. No Americans should profit from the oppression and persecution of civilian populations anywhere. American forces should be used against peopl…”
- JIM H
“The American people must be provided with evidence that the president is not trading the security of the American people for personal economic gain. When I was an employee of the state of California I had to provide a full accounting of my assets and liabilities once a year to ensure that I did not …”
- JIM H
“We are at a critical fork in the road. One path leads to a continuation of our constitutional republic with the rights and privileges guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. The other leads to surrender to the dictator Putin who Donald Trump is deeply indebted to. I know people who have lived in the Sovi…”
- JIM H
“I have known a lot of reporters. Most of them go to great links to get their story right. Very few of them make stuff up. A few newspaper executives change the story to increase readership and please advertisers.
I trust government employees that got their position through merit. But not those who …”
- JIM H
“It is very clear that Donald Trump has held up military aid to the Ukraine, and implied that he would release that aid only if the president of the Ukraine assisted him in his reelection campaign. That $400 million of military aid was critical to the Ukraine defending itself from a Russian invasion.…”
- JIM H
“We should have learned our lesson when we prohibited alcohol. The prohibition of alcohol manufacture, distribution and sale funded organized crime. That was a far bigger problem for our society than the consumption of alcohol had been. Such laws are a disaster for our society. We must not outlaw su…”
- JIM H