Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

Lash wrote:

2. Education has been defunded for decades, mental health services are gutted. We need to reallocate federal money to produce an educated populace and find decent services—residential and therapeutic—for people who are homeless or one psychotic episode from a mass shooting event. Real problems can be solved with reallocation of funds, but it takes desire to fix these problems. Our current crop of elected villains does not want an educated populace or to solve homelessness.

This is a very simplistic approach for funding Education. The majority of financing for schools come from property taxes. In which Multi-family units and senior citizens try to minimize their obligation.

Most school levies fail because people feel Administration takes too much of the chunk of the budget for what they actually do. In my county alone, seven districts failed to pass a levy for this one issue.

Teacher shortages, continuous testing, lack of resources, shootings... Hell, I don't have to tell you, you live it.

Some states don't fund Education with property taxes, the use of a sales tax is used instead. Plus the re-allocation of public school funds now going to private or religious schools also hurts the bottom line.

I think it's foolish to claim there's no desire to fix Education. There's just disadvantages to each type of funding.

If Trump announces for President, it will be because it would stymie the Justice Department. Hard to go after an announced Presidential candidate.

On another note:
Is there anyone here who still thinks Garland is going to do something- anything - about Trump?

Biden, just yesterday, was in China for handshakes with Xi.
If I were Biden, wouldn’t count on that handshake.

Monday’s three-hour meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping was a bigger deal than it may seem at first glance.

No treaties were signed, no disputes were settled. But the leaders of the world’s two most powerful nations showed that they see the need to step back from confrontation—which some had come to see as inevitable—and to resume diplomacy, which has been laced with suspicion or outright hostility for some time.

The question is whether the two sides can shake off their mutual enmity and negotiate peaceful agreements without conceding vital principles. For now, the tone of the Xi-Biden mini-summit—their first time they’ve met in person since becoming their countries’ presidents—was encouraging, from the warm smiles of their greetings to the unusually mild rhetoric of their “read-outs.” (Those are the official government summaries of what they talked about.)

According to legitimate news sources, Turkey is blaming Kurdish separatists for the explosion.
They have denied it.