The Senate Republican leadership is at it again, filling a sewer pipe with perfume to convince us it’s pretty, and doesn’t stink. Rural Americans are too smart to be fooled by the latest attempt to repeal, but not replace, the Affordable Care Act. The question is will a few Republicans be smart enough to see […]
Posted on September 18th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: A Better Deal, Economy, Health and Healing, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Insurance Reform, Republicans, Rural Issues | No Comments »
Post has been updated (see bold insert below) Not even this Congress can avoid the reality that its game plan for an end-of-the-year home stretch has been severely altered. America’s appetite for petty politics has been washed away by a merciless tempest. Providing federal aid to rural and urban areas shattered by Hurricane Harvey is […]
Posted on September 5th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: Agriculture, Climate Change, Economy, Environment, Environmental disaster, Federal Programs, FEMA, House of Representatives, Senate, Uncategorized, US Government | No Comments »
Donald Trump made a lot of promises about killing lousy free trade agreements, promoting American made products and keeping U.S. jobs from moving overseas, but so far his idea of fair trade is more like his Yankees getting an all-star pitcher without having to give up a blue chip player in return. That would be […]
Posted on August 4th, 2017 by Ken
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Refilling the Swamp wasn’t the deal many of us in Rural America signed up for last November. The shady back room deals, the fat-cat financial people lining their pockets with taxpayer treasure, the government cuddling up with leaders of countries that suck up American jobs, and running the family business out of the White House […]
Posted on July 24th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: A Better Deal, Agriculture, Democrats, Economy, Election 2018, Federal Budget, Health and Healing, Healthcare Reform, Uncategorized | No Comments »
A Rural Voters Bill of Rights and Responsibility On this, Independence Day 2017, we hereby declare these rights and responsibilities for public consumption, comment and dissemination: The Constitution We respect and abide by the rules, liberties and protections granted in the U.S. Constitution of the United States in its entirety. We reject any attempt at […]
Posted on July 4th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: Agriculture, Economy, Election 2018, Environment, Jobs, Labor, Religion and Spirituality, Society and Culture, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Remember when President Trump promised he wouldn’t repeal Obamacare without replacing it with something immediately? Well, we can add that whopper to his growing list of broken promises made to Americans. Yep, he apparently bamboozled us again. Now make no mistake about it, the House and Senate bills that would replace Obamacare would cripple Rural […]
Posted on June 30th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: Economy, Election 2018, Health and Healing, Healthcare Reform, Insurance Reform, Taxes, Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Senate Trumpcare/McConnellcare bill doesn’t do anything to reassure Americans they will have access to affordable comprehensive healthcare coverage, coming close to mirroring the hazardous-to-your-health House-passed rewrite of the Trumpcare/Ryancare bill that we’ve already told you about here. Once again, rural and small town Americans can expect sticker shock and less coverage when they get […]
Posted on June 26th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: Economy, Elections, Environment, Health and Healing, Rural Issues | 1 Comment »
Rural America took a real hard kick in the seat of the pants when the GOP House leadership went behind closed doors a couple of months ago to concoct a tax cut plan for the wealthiest Americans disguised as “health insurance reform.” Under that scheme millions of Americans would lose coverage altogether, most of us […]
Posted on June 16th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: Elections, Health Care, Insurance Reform, Religion and Spirituality, Senate, Taxes, Uncategorized | No Comments »
From manufacturing jobs to agribusiness to affordable health care made available to more Americans, the GOP leadership is in the midst of pulling off one of the biggest bait and switch schemes in the history of campaign trail whoppers. Fortunately, the reality of market forces and economic fundamentals has a choke hold on some of […]
Posted on May 30th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: Agri-tourism, Agriculture, Economy, Elections, Environment, Federal Budget, Fiscal Crisis, Health Care, House of Representatives, Jobs, Politics and Political Issues, Rural Issues, Rural Life, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
The rewrite of Trumpcare/Ryancare did very little at all to cure the earlier version of GOP health care reform, killing coverage for 23 million Americans, according to the Congressional Budget Office analysis released today. Here are the most significant points from the CBO scorecard: Lower premiums would be a result of offering Americans less coverage […]
Posted on May 24th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: Economy, Elections, Health Care, Insurance Reform, Politics and Political Issues, Uncategorized | No Comments »
