Thanks, John. Good story. There's a couple of public rest stops in Wyoming that were instigated if I remember correctly by female state legislators like Peg Shreve to provide the potty breaks that parents needed when crossing the state with children in the car. They used cutting edge septic tank technology perhaps to promote the lowest maintenance costs, and maximized sunlight and windproofing to be sustainable?
Yes!! I remember in the '90s I would always insist on stopping at the rest area south of Meeteetse because it was such cutting-edge design. Yay for rural Wyoming! :)
“But 1976 was tough times too—with the exact same arguments—and the nation survived, indeed eventually prospered.” Or 1980. (And now the year is, what, 1984?). Yes, some similar issues. Fortunately, the anti-solar crowd is now a distinct minority. Although, currently, the energy policy of that minority is sending the United States backwards while the rest of the world moves forward. The nation survived and eventually prospered? I’m not sure about the former. Let’s see what the next two or three years bring. Prospered? Unfortunately, Reaganomics put the fiscal health of your average American on a slow death spiral. Always good to know the history of things, though, and your perspective is appreciated.
From my perspective, despite his personal failings, in Bill Clinton 's 8 years, "22.7 million new jobs had been created, unemployment dropped to a 30-year low, and gross domestic product grew by 35 percent overall through the longest period of sustained growth in U.S. history." (https://www.americanprogress.org/article/power-of-progressive-economics-the-clinton-years/) Which to me is prospering -- though I know I won't convince you! :)
Ah, Bill Clinton. trump makes Clinton's peccadilloes look downright quaint. The economy always does better under Democratic Presidents. America's decline has not been linear. It's more like skiing down a mogul slope. Generally downhill but with the occasional and temporary upward bump. Don't forget that the Clinton years also gave us NAFTA. But more relevant are the facts of what Reagan's "trickle down" policies have done. American wages have barely kept up with inflation, while income inequality has skyrocketed (along with the debt and deficit), and just a small number of people hold an extraordinary amount of the nations's wealth. Unions have been busted, it now takes two incomes for a family to scrape by and just about everything is barely affordable or unaffordable. On top of that our democracy and our place in the world is crumbling. I'm working on learning Greek. Perhaps I should be working on speaking Chinese.
Thanks, John. Good story. There's a couple of public rest stops in Wyoming that were instigated if I remember correctly by female state legislators like Peg Shreve to provide the potty breaks that parents needed when crossing the state with children in the car. They used cutting edge septic tank technology perhaps to promote the lowest maintenance costs, and maximized sunlight and windproofing to be sustainable?
Yes!! I remember in the '90s I would always insist on stopping at the rest area south of Meeteetse because it was such cutting-edge design. Yay for rural Wyoming! :)
“But 1976 was tough times too—with the exact same arguments—and the nation survived, indeed eventually prospered.” Or 1980. (And now the year is, what, 1984?). Yes, some similar issues. Fortunately, the anti-solar crowd is now a distinct minority. Although, currently, the energy policy of that minority is sending the United States backwards while the rest of the world moves forward. The nation survived and eventually prospered? I’m not sure about the former. Let’s see what the next two or three years bring. Prospered? Unfortunately, Reaganomics put the fiscal health of your average American on a slow death spiral. Always good to know the history of things, though, and your perspective is appreciated.
From my perspective, despite his personal failings, in Bill Clinton 's 8 years, "22.7 million new jobs had been created, unemployment dropped to a 30-year low, and gross domestic product grew by 35 percent overall through the longest period of sustained growth in U.S. history." (https://www.americanprogress.org/article/power-of-progressive-economics-the-clinton-years/) Which to me is prospering -- though I know I won't convince you! :)
Glad you spoke up.
Ah, Bill Clinton. trump makes Clinton's peccadilloes look downright quaint. The economy always does better under Democratic Presidents. America's decline has not been linear. It's more like skiing down a mogul slope. Generally downhill but with the occasional and temporary upward bump. Don't forget that the Clinton years also gave us NAFTA. But more relevant are the facts of what Reagan's "trickle down" policies have done. American wages have barely kept up with inflation, while income inequality has skyrocketed (along with the debt and deficit), and just a small number of people hold an extraordinary amount of the nations's wealth. Unions have been busted, it now takes two incomes for a family to scrape by and just about everything is barely affordable or unaffordable. On top of that our democracy and our place in the world is crumbling. I'm working on learning Greek. Perhaps I should be working on speaking Chinese.
Thanks for this story,John. It did remind me to remember the long view.
We used to call Cal Taggart, the “God of Paving.” There was never a highway project he didn’t boost.