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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenator Ben Sasse of Nebraska: yea he is a R but how is he ?
He seems like a bright guy. I sure don't agree with him, firstly, because he's a Republican but he seems....better than the typical Repug.
What am I missing ? Or not missing ?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,433 posts)to adulthood.
From the NYT:
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He says that the idea for The Vanishing American Adult first came to him several years ago, when a group of Midland students were asked to decorate a 20-foot Christmas tree on campus, and they dressed only the bottom seven or eight feet
the branches the kids could easily reach. Sasse was startled shattered, even. Seeing this Christmas tree worried me for the kids. So began his growing awareness of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history.
His daughters once complained of being unable to sleep because the air-conditioning was broken. Sasse was aghast. When I was a kid, we had airconditioning in the house
but we never used it. The fact that his daughters claimed a need for air-conditioning left him and his wife with a heavy sense of failure.
It should also be said that Sasses children are home schooled, and that he unequivocally praised Betsy DeVos who sponsored unregulated charter school expansion in Michigan, with poor results as an excellent pick for secretary of education.
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Some of it sounds like the worst aspirational mommy-blogger garbage from 2005:
"Studded throughout are listicles of tips that can get highly specific, like forgoing flotation devices in the water for children ('Let go and re-grab them
and then celebrate their survival'); sending 'your 2-year-old to get your socks every morning'; and enlisting your offspring to 'build a pet cemetery.' "
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The whole review is worth reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/books/review/vanishing-american-adult-ben-sasse.html
rickford66
(5,528 posts)To most inner city kids, that would be a vacation of a life time. More white privilege advice. Don't buy that cell phone to look for a job. Pay for one week of health insurance instead. What a moran.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Spend your day on a horse so sweaty you and it are covered in mud. Go pound sixty t-shirt post in a day eith a slide hammer or spend all night in a spring blizzard pulling a calf.
Get up at 4amm every day in the dead of winter ( including Christmas morning to feed hay and cake and break ice. Then come and tell me it's a vacation
Honestly don't make assumptions about stuff you know nothing about. If that young women went to a real ranch and actually worked, she worked her ass off.
rickford66
(5,528 posts)What poor kid in a slum has the connections to get that cattle ranch summer job? Re-read my post. I never said it was easy work.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Seriously, you can come and pay my dad to work this summer if you like. The floods took out half a mile of fence that had to be redone. Just let me know what dates and how much you are willing to pay for this vacation.
rickford66
(5,528 posts)Bye
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Then has the hubris to call it white privilege.
Ridiculous
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)He admits that he's a brand spanking new Senator and not a politician but then he criticizes the CBO with ready made rw talking points.
The rw has had years to plan a healthcare bill and they haven't come up with anything other than a tax cut that kills the poor. If we gave them a year to write a new plan, that year would go by without a new bill and 30 million would be without healthcare on year plus Day One.
He is well spoken, so he's a threat to us. We need a few new representatives who can speak well that we can get on tv to get our message out and that maybe will run in 2020.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)He's the guy who just wanted to flat-out repeal ACA, and then just throw something together at some undetermined date in the future.
He's an articulate asshole, but mostly just an asshole.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)... is shit.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)I put Sasse in the latter category.
BzaDem
(11,142 posts)repeal the whole thing first and replace it later.