Comments on: Trump Admin Ordered to Provide Basic Needs for Children; AACC Lauds Administration’s Record on Trauma https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/08/16/trump-admin-ordered-to-provide-basic-needs-for-children-aacc-lauds-administrations-record-on-trauma/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:18:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: DoctorDJ https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/08/16/trump-admin-ordered-to-provide-basic-needs-for-children-aacc-lauds-administrations-record-on-trauma/#comment-103315 Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:18:31 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=34975#comment-103315 “…it is an insult to have a key representative of an administration
generating trauma speak to a group who every day tries to prevent and
heal that trauma.”

Amen. And how is it that tDump’s evangelical supporters refuse to see it?

]]> By: Jeff Ryan https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/08/16/trump-admin-ordered-to-provide-basic-needs-for-children-aacc-lauds-administrations-record-on-trauma/#comment-103309 Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:19:58 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=34975#comment-103309 How many professional associations of this sort are for-profit entities? I can’t think of any. I worked with trade associations before, as well as a union, and none of them were for-profit organizations. Certainly, the best known organization in my former profession, the American Bar Association is nonprofit, as is every bar association I know. Offhand, I can’t think of any “professional association” that is for-profit, but then I suppose there might be.

But this smells like the typical grifting monetization of “charity” so beloved in the Evangelical world. It parallels the privatization of government services favored by the Republican Party. Outsourcing necessary services to the private sector cost taxpayers at least $8 billion that we know of in the obscene Iraq/WMD pantomime that brought so much peace to the Middle East. (I have often wondered how Republicans would have reacted had Bill Clinton outsourced military duties to a company that just happened to be a business formerly headed by Al Gore, as Bush & Co. did with Dick Cheney’s Halliburton. Newt Gingrich would have led the charge and held the noose as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to hang Gore from the nearest lamppost.)

Through the stench of these incestuous relationships runs the Republican principle that government is good for nothing, charity is for suckers, and war is just another way to turn a buck. Tim Clinton looks like someone who fits right in with this pattern.

]]> By: 2019 still here Ellie2 https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/08/16/trump-admin-ordered-to-provide-basic-needs-for-children-aacc-lauds-administrations-record-on-trauma/#comment-103308 Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:33:55 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=34975#comment-103308 Why would anyone need to be ordered to do this for children?

Because with today’s Republicans and this “administration” in particular, cruelty IS the point.

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