US continues to go backward...

When I was teaching , kids too often came to class without a pencil. I bought a gross of pencils then divided the price by 144 and it came out to $0,04857 per pencil so I charged $.05 each. Damned near got a letter of reprimand in my file for profiting off of students.
I have zero sympathy for crybabies going to Washington with a reasonable salary and spending their time playing the market with insider information and becoming millionaires practically overnight. This crap must stop. Make it illegal and give them something to truly cry about.
The only way it will possibly become illegal is if we vote out the people that will not agree with it. Between the gerrymandering, incumbent advantages, and the large percentage of voters will never cross party lines, the politicians don't have much concern.

If the nation's voters quit focusing on the issues they want us to worry about (guns, abortion, transgender, gays, Christianity, immigrants etc) and focused on what we should be getting fixed (lobbying, insider trading, fair and open elections, limiting party power, budgets, debt etc) the nation would be far better off.
 
@RxCowboy

How do you respond to stuff like this without being condescending? Im not trying to be a jerk to what you are saying, just curious. Its a rando on Facebook whose mind is obviously made up and although I have no intention of responding, some of the comments about silence equaling complicity got me to thinking that ignoring this sort of thing might not be the best strategy.

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If I ever respond to that type thing, which I have pretty much stopped, I usually put something to the effect of "I am also a skeptic, but I am equally skeptical. I don't just look at "big pharma" funding studies. I look at the people putting out all information and how they are benefitting from it. Often, they are docs that used to make $400K a year seeing patients which is pretty good, but now they are making millions. How can you be sure that they aren't biased by big $$$ too?"

If they might be receptive, I'lll post some data but the typical response is "mainstream media lies." But, I have to think it makes them wonder:

Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., received $23.5 million in contributions, grants and other revenue in 2022 alone — eight times what it collected the year before the pandemic began — allowing it to expand its state-based lobbying operations to cover half the country. Another influential anti-vaccine group, Informed Consent Action Network, nearly quadrupled its revenue during that time to about $13.4 million in 2022, giving it the resources to finance lawsuits seeking to roll back vaccine requirements as Americans’ faith in vaccines drops.
Two other groups, Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance and America’s Frontline Doctors, went from receiving $1 million combined when they formed in 2020 to collecting more than $21 million combined in 2022, according to the latest tax filings available for the groups.
 

Until the public school indoctrinates then

jeff goldblum checkmate GIF
 
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