trumpy dumpty

I was just assuming that your side would do away with unions and minimum wage because that is a big issue among your candidates.  I guess both sides would have some rich and poor but I expect your side would have more of the former and my side more of the latter.

There was a whole thing about hobos, tramps, and bums some time ago, maybe back in depression days when the downtrodden were riding the rails, and they had some way of marking a house, some grouping of stones or something like that, where a feller could knock on the door and the lady of the house would have some kind of chore for the feller and she would reward him with soup and sandwich.  And then there would be those houses where the lady would set her pie on the sill to cool off and an enterprising bum could pluck it off and head down the road.

I wonder how much of that was actually true.  In any case I suspect the days of hobos and tramps are gone.  There are still some people who call themselves hobos and I've read about people who ride the rails almost like an exotic hobby.

Bums doesn't sound too good, and probably it's unfair in that some of these people are merely unfortunate and not lazy and some of them are not right in the head.  Homeless sounds better.  It's hard to imagine not having a bed to come home to, and even if you had like a bedroll, it would be tucked away in an alley or an underpass with certainly no locked door to protect it so that anybody could go through it, or the maybe some workers would toss it because it was in their way. 

I googled 'homeless Cheboygan' and was informed that there were no homeless shelters withing thirty miles of Cheboygan, but it's hard to believe that there are no homeless there, I mean people lose their homes everywhere.  Surely there are people sleeping in their cars or in the parks or camped out in hobo villages on the outskirts of town, but I don't live there.

I think the Republicans had like a dozen debates last election cycle and that was widely seen as dragging Romney through the dirt so that he never had a chance of beating Obama.  At the time the Republicans boasted that the more debates they had the better because it was a way of spreading their message.  This time they only scheduled eight, and that has proven to be way too many.  I think the dems have about the same amount, but it's just the big girl and the commie and they are rather sedate.

I expect the reps would not have had such a circus if it hadn't been for Trump.   At first they thought he would fade away and they didn't want to offend his followers so they treated him with kid gloves, but now that it is almost too late they are throwing the kitchen sink at him, and of course he just responds in time, and that's where you get all these pro wrestling spectacles.  I just heard the phrase on the radio 'contested convention.'  In our lifetimes conventions have been used as an advertisement for the party, anointing their candidates amid speeches and flim clips.  Can you imagine Trump at a contested convention?  As my ilk used to chant way back when, "The whole world is watching."

I kind of like the idea of paying kids to go to school.  Actually I think I would pay the parents because it is their job to get the kids to school.  I don't know about better grades because then we would be getting into bribery and corruption.   Are we going to pay all kids or just poor kids?  It does sound a little like welfare, which is ok by me, but maybe not for you, and it would certainly raise taxes.

As for the stock market, I don't know.  As long as it's rising everybody can make money out of it, but when it's falling most people are going to lose money.  How about this current bear market?  What are you doing to make money off that?

Wait a minute did I hear you right, that if Trump gets the nomination you will vote for him?  And you are doing that because you think They want you to vote for the libertarian?  Just checking.