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I hope every air traffic controller in the country shows up for work tomorrow.

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Wow! I knew he was dumb but...

I wonder what the controllers that supported him (and we both know there are a bunch of them) are going to do with this?

Oh well. PATCO supported Reagan. And we all know how that turned out. For both sides.

Another book I have to add to my list? I'm not going to live this long! :)

I hadn't heard about it. Thanks. (I think.)

Hey! But my vote doesn't count! I live in Alabama. I've got two Trump suck-ups that represent me.

Yeah. It sucks. Do you want to be Alabama? Then get in the game. Call your Senator and tell them how you feel.

As they say in football...(God help me. Football. Alabama.)...

MASS MOVES ASS.

Me too. "Eye of the Needle"? So "Pillars of the Earth" was out of left field. But it was awesome.

You are most welcome, Edward.

I'm comfortable in saying they will do their best. Controllers don't start that way but they (as I suspect many Civil Servants do) come to understand their role as servants of the American Public.

Safe, Orderly, Expeditious. Without "Safe", the other 2 don't count.

...Government actually does? What the word "civilization:" means? Or, like most of the "civilized" world, do they just take it for granted?

Have you ever read about the Dark Ages? Take note how it started. Take note of how long it lasted.

Let's go eat supper. Food. Electricity. Microwave.

...12th century. We live in modern-day America, we're comfortably middle-class and we don't have to deal with the riff-raff -- the dregs of our society.

But our Government does. And right now, the people that hate the Government are in charge of it. Do you think they know what the Government...

...knows this better than the Sheriff of Nottingham. Uh...I mean the county sheriff. I mean, it is common knowledge that the jail/prison system is the #1 provider of mental health services in America, right?

But we don't have to think about that. We don't live in Kingsbridge in the...

..city. Because the city has services for the mentally ill, the disabled, the "down and out:". (She's a great photographer isn't she?)

And the countryside -- the county -- gets a break. They still try to take care of "their own" but a lot of "society's ills" wind up in the city.

And nobody...

There isn't a city in America that doesn't have a problem with the homeless. But how about the countryside? Any problems out there?

Mental illness is a problem in rural America. How do they deal with it?

It has been my experience, that people that need help are sent to the "village". The...

...ideas that worked got passed along and the ideas that didn't were tossed aside. To be tried again with we forgot. And sometimes -- because time and technology had change -- they worked.

Is all this too detached? Do you need something solid to latch onto? How about homelessness?

Anyway, when I'm thinking about public policy -- and a particularly difficult problem -- I ask, "What would they do in Kingsbridge?"

That is how we got to where we are today. People had to solve problems and they couldn't ask ChatGPT. The locals had to figure it out and try something. The...

...village decided.

I'm sure people tried to pawn their problems off on the next village. I'm sure they harassed and tried to shame anyone unlucky enough to be born with an affliction. Or just different. But it was a lot harder when the next village was miles away and there were only trails.

...the "village" had to figure out what to do.

Who runs your County/City mental health program? How are the disabled children taken care of in your town? Do you have the first inkling?

If you lived in a 12th Century village you'd know. And you'd have to live with the consequences of what the...

...solve this problem?" We never think about these things anymore -- in our comfortable middle-class lives. Mary Jane had a disable child, her husband left and we have to figure out how to take care of her. And her kid. Forever. There was no County/Health service. No SNAP, welfare, whatever...