Washington's job traing programs generate reports of effectiveness but little result

Eduardo Porter’s  ‘Carnage’ Indeed, but Trump’s Policies Would Make It Worse makes the assumption that government job training programs actually helped. Trump’s White Working Class are tired of promises that didn’t deliver and it’s so Democrat to think that making up a jobs training program directed from Washington solves the job displacement of free trade. The reality is that the program generates glowing reports of the effectiveness and need for continued funding of the government agency in charge, but no positive result for those who lost their jobs after a major employer moved out of town. The solution to job displacement is local initiative as with so many other problems Washington tries to solve.

Medicare for all should be a hard nosed service that only pays for good enough

     With Next for Obamacare Could Be Medicare for all Professor Frank makes a good point, which is that a government provided minimum health care service is where we are heading. If so then it should be a system that freely uses clinics and para medicals as gate keepers and is administered by hard nosed types who only pay for good enough services and drugs, generic off patent ones only!  An insurance floor that directs the public to supplement their coverage to take advantage of the latest medical advances and services.
     Medicaid comes of Age showed my ignorance, nevertheless a minimum level of health care, much like a utility, is our national reality so Congress should maximize competition on low level health services and drugs by minimizing barriers to entry.

Ryan's folly: Repeal Obamacare before the corporate tax cut rallying stock market

Republicans face dilemma on Health Bill is a beaut.  First and foremost they have planted it as a test of Trump's legislative prowess, which is not what he got elected for.  Repealing Obamacare was just a mantra of the GOP that he repeated without conviction. Now he is stuck first having to prove himself on a issue he really doesn't care about before getting to the stock market rallying issue of corporate tax cuts. If he figures that it's Ryan's folly to first Mr. President we have to repeal Obamacare before we can get to the good stuff then let's see how he fires the Speaker of the House.  

Until State develops a doctrine why bother with high level meets with empty talk?

Tillerson Leads from the Shadows is a New York Times headline, which reads more like an opinion piece, lamenting the fact that the State Department has little presence in the Trump Administration.  Possibly that’s a good thing.  Until the Trump administration develops a coherent doctrine why bother with high level meets with empty talk on meddlesome issues? Its job is to promote our security and commercial interests and understand the other side’s interests so that a diplomatic rather than a military resolution can be reached.  The Iran nuclear deal is a good example. For the rest of it former Secretaries Clinton and Kerry’s globetrotting was a holier than though preach fest that accomplished nothing other than resentment.

PRC should take out the kid next door and show its a useful power for the region

A Reliance on China Jeopardizes the South Korean Economy. Okay....and what about China's economy?  The PRC is investing greatly in their military and apparently, much like the United States, without a strategic goal.  From an outsider's point of view the best purpose for a strong Chinese military is to protect the logistics that ties the interdependent tech business that is the economic driver for Southeast Asia.  To allow the neighborhood kid to play with nuclear matchsticks so that South Korea and Japan buy American THAAD antimissile systems to protect themselves is the height of stupidity.  Its the kid that is damaging the regions tech hub and the danger he presents to the regions' interdependent tech industry is what will damage this very important engine of growth and prosperity.  Rather than punish South Korea the PRC should take out the kid and show its a useful power for the region.    

Healthcare seeks bottom up solutions, its a quagmire for top down authoritarians

Why Republicans Can't do Healthcare because Donald Trump is a populist, repealing Obamacare is not a populist issue rather a Conservative, Libertarians included, one. Its a quagmire for a top down authoritarian fearful of having the end result called, Trumpcare!

Military action should be the last resort. Gross build up makes it the first.

Before he became defense secretary, Gen. Jim Mattis once pleaded with Congress to invest more in State Department diplomacy.

Wow, Mattis appears to have his head screwed on right. In diplomacy military action is the last resort. All this emphasis on military build up makes war the first resort.  Naming Defense the War Department again would have a clarifying effect for the President, Congress and the public.