The Romans and
Their Lead Coated Wine Bottles
Exactly how crazy did it actually get?
Back in the day when most of us were still relying on the merest "tid bits" of fact which might have survived the scripts' dramatic plot requirements for Hollywood movies about ancient Rome, an interesting sort of "urban myth" sometimes surfaced. That was the tale which placed almost the entire cause of the decline and fall on the fact that the old Romans really liked to use lead in so many applications -- many of which had to do with drinking.
Lead was plentiful, relatively easy to mine and refine and easily malleable into all manner of things the Romans needed. [Read more here.] They lined their famous aqueducts with it, built pipes from it for their baths and fountains and, later even began using it to line their famous ceramic wine flasks. Sheets of lead were even used to "wrap" bodies for burial. [Read more here.]
The movie versions which employed this "lead poisoning cause" often depicted Romans who were becoming increasingly insane because of the lead poisoning these practices introduced. Modern research attributes some of the problems Romans were having in those days to lead poisoning, but, as it turns out, although the lead poisoning certainly didn't help, Rome had enough other problems to, over time, "seal its fate."
In more modern culture one very common problematic use of lead was in paint. Children wound up with high lead levels -- in many cases from eating paint chips flaking off walls of domestic residences.
Almost all children in the United States are exposed to lead. Common sources include lead paint and lead contained in water and soil. Housing built before 1950 has the greatest risks of containing lead-based paint. Some children may eat or swallow chips of paint (pica) which increases their risk of exposure to lead.
Exposure to lead can have a wide range of effects on a child's development and behavior. Even when exposed to small amounts of lead levels, children may appear inattentive, hyperactive and irritable. Children with greater lead levels may also have problems with learning and reading, delayed growth and hearing loss. At high levels, lead can cause permanent brain damage and even death.
In more modern culture one very common problematic use of lead was in paint. Children wound up with high lead levels -- in many cases from eating paint chips flaking off walls of domestic residences.
Almost all children in the United States are exposed to lead. Common sources include lead paint and lead contained in water and soil. Housing built before 1950 has the greatest risks of containing lead-based paint. Some children may eat or swallow chips of paint (pica) which increases their risk of exposure to lead.
Exposure to lead can have a wide range of effects on a child's development and behavior. Even when exposed to small amounts of lead levels, children may appear inattentive, hyperactive and irritable. Children with greater lead levels may also have problems with learning and reading, delayed growth and hearing loss. At high levels, lead can cause permanent brain damage and even death.
[Read the entire article here.]
We'll leave the lead story there, but we may need to address the "wide spread insanity" part of the urban myth, and that, of course, means that we will be considering our own modern situation in roughly the same light.
We'll leave the lead story there, but we may need to address the "wide spread insanity" part of the urban myth, and that, of course, means that we will be considering our own modern situation in roughly the same light.
MeanMesa has continually proposed that a couple very modern kinds of wide spread mental problems seems to be afflicting vast numbers of people in our own population. The specific, society wide "mental problems" on MeanMesa's mind have to do with not being able to concentrate or hold attention even when the desire is present to do so and the equally prevalent disorder of continually manifesting the personality traits of codependent behavior, again, whether the intention to manifest them is present or not.
We can spend a moment looking at both of these contemporary wide spread "difficulties" before we begin to approach the inevitable MeanMesa conclusions about them. Naturally, this post will reach a political angle associated with this malady a bit later, but first, we'll need to "put our money where our mouth is."
We can spend a moment looking at both of these contemporary wide spread "difficulties" before we begin to approach the inevitable MeanMesa conclusions about them. Naturally, this post will reach a political angle associated with this malady a bit later, but first, we'll need to "put our money where our mouth is."
A Little Problem Concentrating
Don't worry - just about everybody seems to be the same way.
Now, where were we...
Now, where were we...
[Too often -- usually late at night -- MeanMesa drifts into an episode of really troubling morbid reflection. The insistently durable question which prompts these "not particularly helpful right before bed time" excursions into the dark valleys of worry and confusion arises from considering what the otherwise apparently rational folks surrounding me seem to be believing.
Selecting politics to provide an example is tempting, but this "difficulty" seems to extend to other areas far removed from that one. However, since -- in the bloggosphere -- "an example is worth a thousand words," let's look at one.
A wonderful acquaintance of this blogger is now living in Dallas. She recently found a good job working in a Dallas hospital in a non-medical capacity. She has accomplished an advanced degree and has always been quite pleasantly inquisitive and conversational, constantly showing a well appreciated respect for MeanMesa who is quite her elder. Although it hardly matters here, she is also shockingly voluptuous and classically, ethereally feminine.
This young lady phoned a day or so ago in a very anxious state. She was concerned about the ebola cases in other hospitals in Dallas, and her worrying had reached a state which had essentially left her paralysed with anxiety. In her rambling explanation of this she referred continuously to "things she had heard," "things people had said" and "reports she had seen on television."
MeanMesa immediately -- and sternly -- proposed that she "fire up" her GOOGLE and do some serious reading about ebola. [The "sternly" part is, more or less, MeanMesa's "one size fits all" approach for attempting to comfort women when they are upset. Don't try this at home -- only extremely old counsel can safely employ this method.] To this suggestion she replied that it was all "too confusing" and that many of the articles, although at this point still unseen and unread, were "dangerously contradictory."
Remember -- this woman has a graduate degree.
Here, we can presume that she was clearly quite competent at concentration during the time she was a student only a few years ago. What happened? It seems very unlikely indeed that she "caught" an attention disorder suddenly after she graduated or, for that matter, since she moved to Dallas only a few months ago.
This young lady phoned a day or so ago in a very anxious state. She was concerned about the ebola cases in other hospitals in Dallas, and her worrying had reached a state which had essentially left her paralysed with anxiety. In her rambling explanation of this she referred continuously to "things she had heard," "things people had said" and "reports she had seen on television."
MeanMesa immediately -- and sternly -- proposed that she "fire up" her GOOGLE and do some serious reading about ebola. [The "sternly" part is, more or less, MeanMesa's "one size fits all" approach for attempting to comfort women when they are upset. Don't try this at home -- only extremely old counsel can safely employ this method.] To this suggestion she replied that it was all "too confusing" and that many of the articles, although at this point still unseen and unread, were "dangerously contradictory."
Remember -- this woman has a graduate degree.
Here, we can presume that she was clearly quite competent at concentration during the time she was a student only a few years ago. What happened? It seems very unlikely indeed that she "caught" an attention disorder suddenly after she graduated or, for that matter, since she moved to Dallas only a few months ago.
Considering this example, we come to the point of this first "far too common" malady. Just when she might benefit the most from a good session of sensible, educational reading about ebola to calm her anxiety, she, instead, "flew off" to a mine field littered with useless preconceptions.
She was declining MeanMesa's suggestion to simply concentrate on collecting what facts were available, and she was justifying her decision with an arcane collection of fear inducing talking points -- any single one of which would have evaporated in "the light of day" if its veracity and utility were to have been measured more rationally.
She was declining MeanMesa's suggestion to simply concentrate on collecting what facts were available, and she was justifying her decision with an arcane collection of fear inducing talking points -- any single one of which would have evaporated in "the light of day" if its veracity and utility were to have been measured more rationally.
While we think, perhaps over-clinically, of attention deficit disorders as being limited primarily to the realm of adolescent boys who can't sit still in a classroom, MeanMesa is proposing that the problem is far more wide spread. Far more. Further, although there may well be diagnostic "causes" for the disorder's effect on younger patients, we see it appearing with alarming frequency in adults all around us.
Think of it as the 2014, bi-partisan version of the old Roman lead problem.
One interesting side of the medical "cause" explanation concerns the incredible level of distractions that modern people face daily. And, these "distractions" are far from coincidental distractions. These "distractions" are things which were designed to be distractions.
There has long been a steady litany of "expert suspicions" about video games, texting, stimulants and even fast rock and roll music, but MeanMesa sees causes even more widely encountered in daily life. For example, the fear mongering media ambitiously sustains a moment by moment state of stress, anger and dread in the minds of millions. The internet has transformed what used to be books into talking points superimposed on pictures of something else.
TWITTER has converted the age old activity of pensive, thoughtful, written discourse into a grotesque 140 character "communication amputee."
The point here is that, while all this was developing, our social values failed to rise to the challenge of attaching value to concentration. Naturally, the "fruits" of concentration also suffered. These distractions originally could claim to be "time saving" or "effort reducing" modern tools, but that gradually redefined itself until we began to casually accept them as convenient "external alternatives" to actually pondering a question we might pose to ourselves.
Remember pondering? That stubborn process of repeatedly calling your mind back to the topic you were concentrating and deliberating upon until you were finally satisfied with the "thought product" created by your efforts?
MeanMesa can remember that "impulse of brave mental confidence" which emerged in the background when the issue being considered seemed to continually elude satisfactory comprehension or understanding. On the contrary, it now seems that we are surrounded by folks who are satisfied with a degree of quite inauthentic comprehension and understanding which, if considered even a little more, would not "meet the measure" by even their own busy standards.
Even though specific causes may remain a mystery, hundreds of millions of citizens in this country are suffering from attention deficit disorder, and it shows.
Americans have, apparently, "cast the surly bonds" of their famous, old fashioned skepticism in favor of a new willingness to automatically grant blind, hysterical credibility to practically anything. 2014 is a year in which incredible technology has provided essentially unlimited access to information beyond the wildest dreams of only a few years ago.
One might think that, because of this, modern folks would be "checking" things right and left. Further, the inevitable charlatans among us, understanding this, would be "working over time" to really complicate and obscure the deceptions they were so anxious for their audiences to "accept as fact."
This isn't the case at all. The charlatans are doing swell.
We no longer see travelling medicine men peddling "secret elixir" from horse drawn wagons, but we see their modern equivalent expounding -- and successfully broadcasting -- bold face lies with an eerie confidence. In the political arena this phenomenon becomes material. Votes are cast based on falsehoods, but they are cast by voters who might have effortlessly remedied such misinformation in a few minutes!
MeanMesa has always been impressed with the carefully devised mythologies of the religionist scams. There are millions of Americans who are "absolutely convinced" that a book written thousands of years ago describing a conveniently revised, incomprehensible mythology -- a tale already at something like its "seventh edition" when this particular book was first begun -- offers incontrovertible guidance for all manner of life's challenges.
However, we won't be needing Martin Luther or Imanuel Kant to support this modern argument. A simple conversation at MeanMesa's favorite coffee shop provides an abundant supply of casual evidence. The grotesque avoidance of questioning anything seems even further aggravated in the case of conspiracies.
This particular conversation, appearing absolutely innocent and lasting less than thirty minutes revealed the following -- all expounded with breathless certainty and urgency.
1. "Those aren't really clouds. Those are chem trails. That's how they poison us."
2. "All elections are crooked. You have to buy off somebody in power to win."
3. "Obama said he was god."
4. "The world is only weeks or months from a nuclear holocaust, martial law and fully legalized sodomy for children."
The people expressing these "facts" are, more or less, reasonable people. This was a coffee shop -- not the visitors' waiting room in an asylum for the criminally insane. But the conclusions unavoidably accompanying a more generalized presumption is that most Americans have at least a little of this running loose in them is truly unsettling.
Frighteningly, that would include most of the Americans finding their way to voting booths.
Now, one might ask himself, "Are the comments of these people reporting these strange 'facts' the product of some devilishly clever, long term propaganda scheme?" Had teams of PhD psychologists worked out every detail of this nonsense for years before suddenly "unleashing" it on an otherwise unsuspecting public?
No, actually, there was hardly any scheme at all, because hardly any scheme was needed.
The pundits who originally introduced these "facts" probably only received the instructions to do so on the very morning before the coffee shop acquaintances heard it that afternoon. The sold out net work managers and the think tanks may have also received "instructions" to continually repeat them, day after day, until instructed to replace them with the next set of "facts."
There is an intriguing "disconnection" between what the coffee shop acquaintances were saying and what propositions the same folks could have, otherwise, really been able to believe - and by "able to believe," MeanMesa means propositions folks might have "thought were accurate," "thought were possible" or even "thought might be sensible."
It appears to be a "new luxury." Any idea -- no matter how seriously lacking in credibility -- can be painlessly absorbed and then repeated. Even the unusually unlikely can be transformed into "coffee shop" chatter. Chatter which, pursuant to "good manners," must be at least publicly accepted as a precious, fascinating, conversational "something" which is tacitly tolerated as rational, relevant or important.
If the Emperor had no clothes, the coffee shop looked amazingly similar to a "not particularly pretty" nudist colony.
Further, no matter how grotesque the coffee shop blather might be, it is a mere twinkle when held up to what is spewing forth from AM radio and the cable mouth junk talkers. The alphabet networks' "business plan" is founded on the axiom that guarantees that absolutely no one will spend a single second actually considering what has just been broadcast.
Until "it" gets to the coffee shop or the voting booth, of course.
The cable networks are even worse -- a grotesque "free range" version of what the network broadcasters are offering, totally unhindered by any FCC complaints, warnings or suggestions.
The nation-wide ADHD is required for the vital "free market" cash lubrication this monstrosity demands. Not even the tooth paste commercials make sense.
There you have it.
Think of it as the 2014, bi-partisan version of the old Roman lead problem.
A Long List of "Causes and Conditions"
A bar room brawl between religious superstition,
political propaganda, urban myths and old wives' tales...
One interesting side of the medical "cause" explanation concerns the incredible level of distractions that modern people face daily. And, these "distractions" are far from coincidental distractions. These "distractions" are things which were designed to be distractions.
There has long been a steady litany of "expert suspicions" about video games, texting, stimulants and even fast rock and roll music, but MeanMesa sees causes even more widely encountered in daily life. For example, the fear mongering media ambitiously sustains a moment by moment state of stress, anger and dread in the minds of millions. The internet has transformed what used to be books into talking points superimposed on pictures of something else.
TWITTER has converted the age old activity of pensive, thoughtful, written discourse into a grotesque 140 character "communication amputee."
The point here is that, while all this was developing, our social values failed to rise to the challenge of attaching value to concentration. Naturally, the "fruits" of concentration also suffered. These distractions originally could claim to be "time saving" or "effort reducing" modern tools, but that gradually redefined itself until we began to casually accept them as convenient "external alternatives" to actually pondering a question we might pose to ourselves.
Remember pondering? That stubborn process of repeatedly calling your mind back to the topic you were concentrating and deliberating upon until you were finally satisfied with the "thought product" created by your efforts?
MeanMesa can remember that "impulse of brave mental confidence" which emerged in the background when the issue being considered seemed to continually elude satisfactory comprehension or understanding. On the contrary, it now seems that we are surrounded by folks who are satisfied with a degree of quite inauthentic comprehension and understanding which, if considered even a little more, would not "meet the measure" by even their own busy standards.
Even though specific causes may remain a mystery, hundreds of millions of citizens in this country are suffering from attention deficit disorder, and it shows.
So, on the heels of a nearly flawless jobs report, I thought I’d finally give in and make a list of a few things Republicans can blame on President Obama:
- Job losses were cut by more than 50% within his first 4 months in office.
- He saved the American auto industry.
- Has cut our deficits by more than half.
- Killed Osama bin Ladin.
- Got Syria to give up their chemical weapons without firing a single shot.
- Presided over record breaking stock levels (with the Dow just recently closing over 17,000 for the first time in its 118-year history).
- Reduced unemployment from 10% to 6.1%.
- We just saw the fastest first quarter of job growth in the United States since 1999.
- The quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years.
- 52 straight months of private sector job growth.
- 9.7 million private sector jobs created.
- Over 8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
- Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer.
- He hasn’t started a single war.
- Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun.
The New Era of Unbridled Belief
Modern, effortless and convenient!
What do you mean by "checking?"
What do you mean by "checking?"
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8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable
Care Act.
Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks
to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’
insurance longer.
He hasn’t started a single war.
Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun. - See more at:
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/list-of-things-you-can-blame-on-president-obama/#sthash.rb2zXMZ6.dpuf
Americans have, apparently, "cast the surly bonds" of their famous, old fashioned skepticism in favor of a new willingness to automatically grant blind, hysterical credibility to practically anything. 2014 is a year in which incredible technology has provided essentially unlimited access to information beyond the wildest dreams of only a few years ago.
One might think that, because of this, modern folks would be "checking" things right and left. Further, the inevitable charlatans among us, understanding this, would be "working over time" to really complicate and obscure the deceptions they were so anxious for their audiences to "accept as fact."
This isn't the case at all. The charlatans are doing swell.
We no longer see travelling medicine men peddling "secret elixir" from horse drawn wagons, but we see their modern equivalent expounding -- and successfully broadcasting -- bold face lies with an eerie confidence. In the political arena this phenomenon becomes material. Votes are cast based on falsehoods, but they are cast by voters who might have effortlessly remedied such misinformation in a few minutes!
MeanMesa has always been impressed with the carefully devised mythologies of the religionist scams. There are millions of Americans who are "absolutely convinced" that a book written thousands of years ago describing a conveniently revised, incomprehensible mythology -- a tale already at something like its "seventh edition" when this particular book was first begun -- offers incontrovertible guidance for all manner of life's challenges.
However, we won't be needing Martin Luther or Imanuel Kant to support this modern argument. A simple conversation at MeanMesa's favorite coffee shop provides an abundant supply of casual evidence. The grotesque avoidance of questioning anything seems even further aggravated in the case of conspiracies.
This particular conversation, appearing absolutely innocent and lasting less than thirty minutes revealed the following -- all expounded with breathless certainty and urgency.
1. "Those aren't really clouds. Those are chem trails. That's how they poison us."
2. "All elections are crooked. You have to buy off somebody in power to win."
3. "Obama said he was god."
4. "The world is only weeks or months from a nuclear holocaust, martial law and fully legalized sodomy for children."
The people expressing these "facts" are, more or less, reasonable people. This was a coffee shop -- not the visitors' waiting room in an asylum for the criminally insane. But the conclusions unavoidably accompanying a more generalized presumption is that most Americans have at least a little of this running loose in them is truly unsettling.
Frighteningly, that would include most of the Americans finding their way to voting booths.
Now, one might ask himself, "Are the comments of these people reporting these strange 'facts' the product of some devilishly clever, long term propaganda scheme?" Had teams of PhD psychologists worked out every detail of this nonsense for years before suddenly "unleashing" it on an otherwise unsuspecting public?
No, actually, there was hardly any scheme at all, because hardly any scheme was needed.
The pundits who originally introduced these "facts" probably only received the instructions to do so on the very morning before the coffee shop acquaintances heard it that afternoon. The sold out net work managers and the think tanks may have also received "instructions" to continually repeat them, day after day, until instructed to replace them with the next set of "facts."
Where Does ADHD Come In?
I'm already spinning as fast as I can...
By the way, did you hear...
By the way, did you hear...
There is an intriguing "disconnection" between what the coffee shop acquaintances were saying and what propositions the same folks could have, otherwise, really been able to believe - and by "able to believe," MeanMesa means propositions folks might have "thought were accurate," "thought were possible" or even "thought might be sensible."
It appears to be a "new luxury." Any idea -- no matter how seriously lacking in credibility -- can be painlessly absorbed and then repeated. Even the unusually unlikely can be transformed into "coffee shop" chatter. Chatter which, pursuant to "good manners," must be at least publicly accepted as a precious, fascinating, conversational "something" which is tacitly tolerated as rational, relevant or important.
If the Emperor had no clothes, the coffee shop looked amazingly similar to a "not particularly pretty" nudist colony.
Further, no matter how grotesque the coffee shop blather might be, it is a mere twinkle when held up to what is spewing forth from AM radio and the cable mouth junk talkers. The alphabet networks' "business plan" is founded on the axiom that guarantees that absolutely no one will spend a single second actually considering what has just been broadcast.
Until "it" gets to the coffee shop or the voting booth, of course.
The cable networks are even worse -- a grotesque "free range" version of what the network broadcasters are offering, totally unhindered by any FCC complaints, warnings or suggestions.
The nation-wide ADHD is required for the vital "free market" cash lubrication this monstrosity demands. Not even the tooth paste commercials make sense.
There you have it.
So, on the heels of a nearly flawless jobs report, I thought I’d finally give in and make a list of a few things Republicans can blame on President Obama:
- Job losses were cut by more than 50% within his first 4 months in office.
- He saved the American auto industry.
- Has cut our deficits by more than half.
- Killed Osama bin Ladin.
- Got Syria to give up their chemical weapons without firing a single shot.
- Presided over record breaking stock levels (with the Dow just recently closing over 17,000 for the first time in its 118-year history).
- Reduced unemployment from 10% to 6.1%.
- We just saw the fastest first quarter of job growth in the United States since 1999.
- The quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years.
- 52 straight months of private sector job growth.
- 9.7 million private sector jobs created.
- Over 8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
- Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer.
- He hasn’t started a single war.
- Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun.
So, on the heels of a nearly flawless jobs report, I thought I’d finally give in and make a list of a few things Republicans can blame on President Obama:
- Job losses were cut by more than 50% within his first 4 months in office.
- He saved the American auto industry.
- Has cut our deficits by more than half.
- Killed Osama bin Ladin.
- Got Syria to give up their chemical weapons without firing a single shot.
- Presided over record breaking stock levels (with the Dow just recently closing over 17,000 for the first time in its 118-year history).
- Reduced unemployment from 10% to 6.1%.
- We just saw the fastest first quarter of job growth in the United States since 1999.
- The quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years.
- 52 straight months of private sector job growth.
- 9.7 million private sector jobs created.
- Over 8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
- Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer.
- He hasn’t started a single war.
- Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun.
So, on the heels of a nearly flawless jobs report, I thought I’d finally give in and make a list of a few things Republicans can blame on President Obama:
- Job losses were cut by more than 50% within his first 4 months in office.
- He saved the American auto industry.
- Has cut our deficits by more than half.
- Killed Osama bin Ladin.
- Got Syria to give up their chemical weapons without firing a single shot.
- Presided over record breaking stock levels (with the Dow just recently closing over 17,000 for the first time in its 118-year history).
- Reduced unemployment from 10% to 6.1%.
- We just saw the fastest first quarter of job growth in the United States since 1999.
- The quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years.
- 52 straight months of private sector job growth.
- 9.7 million private sector jobs created.
- Over 8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
- Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer.
- He hasn’t started a single war.
- Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun.
So, on the heels of a nearly flawless jobs report, I thought I’d finally give in and make a list of a few things Republicans can blame on President Obama:
- Job losses were cut by more than 50% within his first 4 months in office.
- He saved the American auto industry.
- Has cut our deficits by more than half.
- Killed Osama bin Ladin.
- Got Syria to give up their chemical weapons without firing a single shot.
- Presided over record breaking stock levels (with the Dow just recently closing over 17,000 for the first time in its 118-year history).
- Reduced unemployment from 10% to 6.1%.
- We just saw the fastest first quarter of job growth in the United States since 1999.
- The quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years.
- 52 straight months of private sector job growth.
- 9.7 million private sector jobs created.
- Over 8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
- Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer.
- He hasn’t started a single war.
- Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun.
So, on the heels of a nearly flawless jobs report, I thought I’d finally give in and make a list of a few things Republicans can blame on President Obama:
- Job losses were cut by more than 50% within his first 4 months in office.
- He saved the American auto industry.
- Has cut our deficits by more than half.
- Killed Osama bin Ladin.
- Got Syria to give up their chemical weapons without firing a single shot.
- Presided over record breaking stock levels (with the Dow just recently closing over 17,000 for the first time in its 118-year history).
- Reduced unemployment from 10% to 6.1%.
- We just saw the fastest first quarter of job growth in the United States since 1999.
- The quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years.
- 52 straight months of private sector job growth.
- 9.7 million private sector jobs created.
- Over 8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
- Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer.
- He hasn’t started a single war.
- Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun.
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