{"id":4937,"date":"2025-07-07T05:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2025-07-07T05:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:36:52","slug":"exhausting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/exhausting\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhausting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Woke up after a bad dream that I&#8217;d slept through my stop on the train.  This past week&#8217;s trip, well, the trip home, was remarkably bad.  Amtrak will be getting a call later this morning.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to No Agenda, which has good information about the flooding in Texas.  No, it wasn&#8217;t unprecedented.  No, NWS cuts didn&#8217;t cause the problems.  Adam Curry, who lives just north of the affected area, gave a pretty good recap of what&#8217;s happened recently.  But, when your entire role in life is blaming everything bad that happens on Trump, it has to be about changes that have happened in government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After figuring out that I wasn&#8217;t on the train having missed my stop, onto seeing what&#8217;s on FB.  Typical zOMG SHARE THIS thing from ActBlue or similar groups.  Because now I&#8217;m awake, let&#8217;s go through the points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Medicaid work rules \u2014 Yeah, just like Clinton had. But, you know, your health coverage should come from your employer-sponsored plan.  Oh wait.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Food Aid \u2014 Why is the Federal Government doing this? Drive this down to the lowest-possible level. I remember being on an <a href=\"https:\/\/gohrt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HRT<\/a> bus near a holiday when the other passengers were discussing which places had the best meals for the holiday. <strong>This can happen without government<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clean Energy Credits \u2014 On vehicles and housing features that poor people can\u2019t afford.  These, by and large, are welfare programs for the affluent.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student Loan Changes \u2014 Again,<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/11\/14\/abolish-federal-student-loans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> why is the Federal Government involved in this at all?<\/a> When I took my student loans in the 90s, FAFSA dispatched me to private banks who lent the money. Why\u2019d that change? Oh, I dunno. Ask Harry Reid.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Affordable Housing phase out \u2014 I think there would be plenty if government got out of the way. Reason had a video comparing San Francisco and Austin. <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/video\/2025\/06\/30\/how-texas-beat-california-on-housing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why is Austin working, and SF isn\u2019t<\/a>?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rural Hospital Reimbursements \u2014 Let the market meet the demands. And having full hospitals everywhere isn\u2019t needed. There\u2019s a reason the Army got rid in 2006. Stabilize the patient, and transport somewhere that can deliver care.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I can fall back to sleep.  Geez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up after a bad dream that I&#8217;d slept through my stop on the train. This past week&#8217;s trip, well, the trip home, was remarkably bad. Amtrak will be getting a call later this morning. Listen to No Agenda, which has good information about the flooding in Texas. No, it wasn&#8217;t unprecedented. No, NWS cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}