Ken's Comments

The travesty to which I refer is the way American businesses treat U.S. workers and the movement of jobs either outside the US or bringing foreigners into the US to replace American workers. Cases in point  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/ibm_layoffs/ IBM - which should change it's name to India Business Machines for the amount of work it has shifted to India by laying off thousands of American workers.  The job layoffs mentioned in that article are only the latest.  Dell did a similar thing after purchasing Perot Systems.  They took a company that was predominantly American and launched a process of "leveraging" which was a fancy way of saying moving work off shore to India, the Phillipines, and other parts of the world. Carrier heating is moving jobs from Indiana to Mexico it was announced earlier this year. Then there is Disney, who laid off IT workers so they could outsource the jobs to another company.  Those jobs went to people f...

Donald Trump has a point with his complaints about the non-voter determined processes for selecting delegates. True his campaign should be doing a better job of fighting for these delegates but the fact is the processes he complains about are anti-democratic. The question people are overlooking is why are those processes set up?  The answer is to do exactly what Donald Trump is suggesting - to accumulate the selection power in the hands of a smaller group and remove it from the popular vote. Why do party committee people endorse candidates?  Not to make sure the Party picks the best candidates but to enable smaller groups of people to make the choice of who runs or doesn't, which in turn makes the candidates beholden to them. The different methods that Donald Trump is decrying fall in the same categories.  Caucuses that are attended by a fraction of Republican voters.  State Committee meetings where a tiny group of Party officials meet.  These are mechanis...