They have that already. It’s called sunscreen.
But you can probably make a ton of $$ rebranding it like that.
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Good summary of “Trump 250” on CBC site.
new conspiracy theory just hatched in my mind: Trump intentionally sandbagged the 2020 election, so he could come back in 2024 and be around for this very thing.
Flaw in that conspiracy theory is that he would have assumed he could find a way to have a third term.
He was never planning on leaving in 2020 or anytime after.
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“And by the way, no government funds,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last November. “These are all private individuals that put up a lot of money to build the ballroom,” he added. “Not one penny is being used from the federal government.”
But the gleaming 90,000-square-foot space that he repeatedly said would cost the public nothing may ultimately leave taxpayers on the hook for $1 billion
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has released a long-term immigration and border patrol funding bill that includes $1 billion earmarked for security improvements accompanying the overall ballroom project[…] The language is part of a Republican-only “reconciliation” bill the party plans to pass this year.
In a prepared statement, a White House spokesperson praised the Republican-led spending proposal. “Congress has rightly recognized the need for these funds," said spokesperson Davis Ingle.
“This is a GIFT (ZERO taxpayer funding!) to the United States of America, of 300 to 400 Million Dollars (depending on the scope and quality of interior finishes!), for a desperately needed space," Trump wrote on his social media site in January.
Party of Fiscal Responsibility strikes again
the CEO is getting roasted
Nice.
The article has lots of stuff saying that other countries have more more public transit than the US. However, the headline promised “How” this happened.
I didn’t see much discussion of that. I have some theories about when cities were platted and what land cost at the time, but I don’t have much information to back them up.
I think the built environment we have is simply lower density than other countries. A key metric for public transit is “number of people who can walk to this transit station”, I think we are lower on that metric.
Um, because the American people have loved their cars for the past 120 years or so. We are a huge country, so we built highways so people can go wherever they want whenever they want, and not faster trains that go only to certain places at certain times.
Gasoline has been historically always cheaper here than in Europe. That really changes the decision-making of consumers and thus where the Transportation dollars go.
Not sure this story will tell me anything different.
It does require taxation to pay for deficit-causing public programs, and the (rich) people don’t like that.
There are gradual improvements. They finally opened the Bellevue-Seattle light rail (with the world’s first light rail service on a floating bridge) a few weeks ago. Looks pretty cool.
Tomorrow, an extension of the “D” Line (nee “Purple”), extends to La Cienega in LA. That is right a short walk to Lawry’s. Might take it instead of getting riled up in traffic. Another stop at la Brea is next to the La Brea Tar Pits and the Museum of Art and its new extension.
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But people still ARE willing to splurge $10 for that experience, and some people have had to cut back in big ways in life and this is something they can still hold onto as a splurge. Some people need to have splurges in their life.
I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but I can understand it.
Black people use buses. I’d assume that given many Americans hate funding schools that predominantly have black kids in them, they’d probably similarly hate funding public transit systems used heavily by black people.
They mentioned Sydney, which has a similarly low density to US cities. It has around the same density as Los Angeles.
Regarding transit in the US vs various other places, the challenge is that it isn’t any one factor, and in some cases it’s a combination of factors triggering a snowball.
Urban density plays a role, but the lack of density in many cities is the result of culture, car-facilitated mobility, and white flight all fueling planning decisions.
The US was a particularly wealthy country post-WW2, and didn’t need to rebuild the way Europe and Japan did, further promoting car culture.
There was a time when it looked like parts of western Europe were going to follow the US. Interested folks might look into some of the debates that led to British rail services being decimated in the late 1960’s, or the decisions that led to the near-loss of tram/streetcar service in many parts of western Europe in the latter part of the previous century.
But Europe got better.
Part of the reason Europe got better was their willingness to invest in infrastructure. Contrast that to how much of American politics over the past 40-plus years has been driven by calls to reduce or eliminate certain government budget items.
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US is a great place to be well off like us actuaries. It’s pretty shitty for almost everyone else.
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