Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 25, 2017
January 24, 2017
January 26, 2017
Transcript:
Man: At first I was angry about being left out, then I realized it was a compliment.
@VARNES: I seem to be breaking my promises to myself left and right these days. (Promised not to post here). Anyway, if you want advance notice of how many US departments and their employees will fare in future, just take a look at how Florida has been doing under Governor Vader.
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The employees of DEP were forbidden to use terms like ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’. The Department in charge of managing lands purchased for preservation was required to come up with ways to make the land ‘pay for itself’ by allowing additional grazing of cattle (contributes to surface water pollution in areas specifically set aside to prevent that), and the Department of Education was directed to not only continue former Gov Jeb’s policies of inundating public schools with so many tests that most classroom time is spent on test prep, but also to increase the vouchers to private schools not subject to ‘accountability testing’.
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The ombudsmen for nursing home patients was eliminated. Low income parents of disabled kids who applied for Medicaid funds for home health care for the kids sometimes found their kids removed from their homes and shipped to the first available nursing home bed (and this did not save money.)
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Welcome to the future…