Moderate libertarian, Teacher (MS Science, HS Biology, HS CTE Health Occupations), Mom. Gen X-er.
Indiana, USA
Joined September 2019
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Indiana Moderate retweeted
You're not wrong here, but you blame the wrong people. We have the most expensive public healthcare system in the world. For the 2T the US spends on Medicare & Medicaid, we could afford to replace it with the public healthcare systems of most developed countries and have 1/2
Indiana Moderate retweeted
You'll be happier if you are. But even if you prefer to be less grateful, less happy, if an analysis arrives at the conclusion that people with the highest standards of living in the world and in history can't afford a minimal quality of life, how good can the methodology be?
Indiana Moderate retweeted
Socialism is the belief that Amazon workers would have spontaneously created Amazon if Jeff Bezos didn't exist.
Indiana Moderate retweeted
People who make their own meals are "eating like a dog" apparently
As opposed to the people who have food handed to them in a bowl
Indiana Moderate retweeted
I'm female, and I am a pro bargain hunter. But even an amateur can make a burger and fries for under $3 if you use the remainder of the ingredients for other cheap meals.
Indiana Moderate retweeted
It's difficult to overestimate how damaging this view of teaching and learning has been for so many kids.
Virtually every teacher trained over the last 50 years was taught that knowing stuff is the least important part of thinking.
This image taken from Utica University's assessment resources for faculty:
utica.edu/academic/Assessmen…
Indiana Moderate retweeted
There are several European countries that rival the US in quality of life - Nordic countries, Switzerland, Germany, & Austria. But too many Americans invoke "Europe" to endorse policies of South American or Asian countries where quality of life isn't comparable to the US at all.
Indiana Moderate retweeted
My favorite quote by you.
Heartbroken
May you rest in perfect, Queen
@DollyParton 🤍
Indiana Moderate retweeted
Not kidding when I say this is Appalachia’s version of the death of Queen Elizabeth.
Indiana Moderate retweeted
Why can’t communists be communist the way the Amish are Amish, as in, peacefully, voluntarily, among themselves, without taking anyone else’s property or forcing anyone else to participate?
If communism is really about cooperation and community, why does everyone else have to be forced into it?
Indiana Moderate retweeted
One of the worst things about Trump is that he’s ushering in more corporate welfare, cronyism, and socialism while parading it under the banner of capitalism, so we end up with all the failings of those ideologies but with a generation of young people blaming the market economy.
Indiana Moderate retweeted
No worker produces “all of the value” if they did, they wouldn’t work for someone else. They would just produce the value on their own.
And of course minimum wage workers need to get their skills up. People with marketable skills don’t make the minimum wage.
If this offends you, you have no business talking about economics. This isn’t about your feelings.
Isn't that the episode where you talk about how corporations, CEOs and shareholders, aren't ripping off their workers and absorbing the majority of the profits? Where you talk about how a minimum wage worker isn't producing all the value and they just need to get their skills up in order to get a real job and make more money?
Indiana Moderate retweeted
“Poverty is the cause of crime.”
Don’t you realise how insulting that is to the generations of working-class people who lived below the poverty line but who never stole a bean in their entire lives?
Indiana Moderate retweeted
–Frugality is a virtue
–It's possible to eat nutritious food on almost any budget
–Price inflation since COVID is a problem, and the Iran War adds pressure
–Inflation is driven by monetary, fiscal, and geopolitical policy
–It's good for voters to demand better policy
Indiana Moderate retweeted
What Zoomers are seeing is very real. We live in an inflationary time. The problem is that the solutions they demand are even more inflationary. Downward social mobility will be inevitable as a result if we don't enact antiinflationary policies.
Indiana Moderate retweeted
It's extraordinary how fact free people's positions on grocery prices are.
They just want certain things to be true, and get really mad if you point out they're not.
