Bob Stannard

Manchester

Columnist at Freelance

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Stannard: More babies, less help

1 week ago | timesargus.com | Bob Stannard

“I want more babies in the United States of America.”— Vice President JD Vance“I’ll be known as the fertilization president …”— President Donald Trump“Republicans are raiding child care funding — to push women out of the workforce.”— Moira DoneganThere appears to be a bit of a disconnect between what the current administration says it wants to do and what they’re actually doing.
Stannard: We all lose

3 weeks ago | timesargus.com | Bob Stannard

We’ve learned since 2016 that 47 is really good at a few things. He creates chaos. He lies about everything. When confronted with a problem, his go-to is to say, “I don’t know anything about that. You’ll have to ask ___.” (Fill in the blank.) His next move is to blame someone else — usually Joe Biden, but it doesn’t matter. He’s incapable of accepting responsibility for anything.
Stannard: Still have the power

4 weeks ago | rutlandherald.com | Bob Stannard

MoneyGet away. You get a good job with more pay and you’re OKMoneyIt’s a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash— Pink Floyd‘Robber baron is a term first applied by 19th-century muckrakers and others as social criticism to certain wealthy, powerful and unethical 19th-century American businessmen. The term appeared in that use as early as the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine.
Stannard: Still have the power

4 weeks ago | timesargus.com | Bob Stannard

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Stannard: The exceptions

1 month ago | timesargus.com | Bob Stannard

You are where most Germans were when Hitler was on the rise. They just refused to believe what did happen could possibly happen. People in America today are in denial. They think if they do nothing, everything will be fine. It won’t. You’d be well served to understand the game you now find yourself in. For years, the mega-rich have been working to rig the game, and their persistence is finally paying off. The rich get to send their kids to private preschools that cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Commentary | The View From My Place: We're being robbed

1 month ago | manchesterjournal.com | Bob Stannard

Get away. You get a good job with more pay and you're okayIt's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash - Pink Floyd“Robber baron is a term first applied by 19th century muckrakers and others as social criticism to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen. The term appeared in that use as early as the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine.
Commentary: The View From My Place: We're being robbed

1 month ago | benningtonbanner.com | Bob Stannard

Get away. You get a good job with more pay and you're okayIt's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash“Robber baron is a term first applied by 19th century muckrakers and others as social criticism to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen. The term appeared in that use as early as the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine.
Commentary: The View From My Place: What’s the Game - Part 2

1 month ago | benningtonbanner.com | Bob Stannard

In my previous column I put forth an hypothesis that what’s happening with this current administration is no accident and not as helter skelter as it appears. I suggested that there was a game afoot to hollow out our government and to make it so dysfunctional that those in power would advocate that the only way to fix our problems would be to privatize our government; i.e. sell it off to the highest bidding oligarch.
Commentary | The View From My Place: You're watching the wrong game

1 month ago | manchesterjournal.com | Bob Stannard

In my previous column I put forth an hypothesis that what’s happening with this current administration is no accident and not as helter skelter as it appears. I suggested that there was a game afoot to hollow out our government and to make it so dysfunctional that those in power would advocate that the only way to fix our problems would be to privatize our government; i.e. sell it off to the highest bidding oligarch.
Stannard: What’s the game?

1 month ago | timesargus.com | Bob Stannard

“My goal is to cut government in half in 25 years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”— Grover Norquist, February 2001. We thought it was amusing, perhaps funny, 24 years ago when Grover Norquist said the words above. It ain’t funny now, is it?