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Trump Tweet about Daylight Saving Time
Twitter ^ | Mar 11, 2019 | President Trump

Posted on 03/11/2019 9:23:26 AM PDT by McGruff

Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!

10:17 AM · Mar 11, 2019

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


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To: cuban leaf
Way back when they tried it during the Carter era, lots of parents were up in arms that their kids would be waiting for their school busses in the dark.

That was still the time before the kids were either (a)picked up at their front door or (b)the parents drove them the two blocks or so to the bus stop and waited with them.

Heck, when I was a pup, every kid was expected to walk a quarter mile or more to their bus stop. The parents had already left for work and ANYONE who passed a school bus with lights flashing in EITHER direction would have then book thrown at them.

Even more weird is that busses would pick up elementary, junior and high school students on the same run. If you behaved like an urban feral, you had your bus riding rights suspended. Thus, there weren't many fights on school busses.

Plus if you lived within a mile or two of the school (distance varied by locality), you were EXPECTED to walk.

81 posted on 03/11/2019 10:23:51 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: cuban leaf
It gave more daylight time to work in the fields.

Uhhh, having worked for a time on a cattle ranch, I really don't remember worrying about what time it was when we saddled up and rode off in the morning.
As I recall, we pretty much referenced sunup and sundown, not a clock.
Don't recall even having a watch in those days and farmers don't either.

82 posted on 03/11/2019 10:25:01 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Never fear the cow)
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To: Vigilanteman
Heck, when I was a pup, every kid was expected to walk a quarter mile or more to their bus stop.

I had to walk barefoot in snow for ten miles uphill, both ways.

Well that's what I tell my kids.

83 posted on 03/11/2019 10:25:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

Same Pols that had Clinton over Trump?


84 posted on 03/11/2019 10:26:00 AM PDT by Mr. Mohasky (Common sense in a world lacking any, will be perceived & construed as an extreme point of view.)
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To: McGruff

I had to walk a quarter mile to my school bus stop until I started driving myself. It was at the northwest corner of our farm.


85 posted on 03/11/2019 10:26:20 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: sarge83
If the goal is to keep the sun overhead at noon during the longer days, why not try for an international treaty to move the International Date Line 15 degrees to the west and keep calling it standard time?

Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing, but keep the sun aligned with the clock?

-PJ

86 posted on 03/11/2019 10:28:38 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: McGruff
Old Indian saying " Only a white man cut top off blanket and sew on bottom to make it longer "
87 posted on 03/11/2019 10:28:41 AM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. ")
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To: ConservativeWarrior

FWIW, same logical suggestion was made back in the Carter era. It made a lot of sense. But parents couldn’t trust their little charges to remain home alone for an hour or so between when they left for work and daylight and, even more important, teachers didn’t like driving home during the same rush hour as the taxpaying schlubs.


88 posted on 03/11/2019 10:29:50 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Wuli

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You’re deeply confused!

Daylight time makes the whole country more productive without passing tyrannical laws on how to operate business.


89 posted on 03/11/2019 10:30:57 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: McGruff

Well, I think it must be safer for high school kids driving school buses during daylight rather than in the dark.


90 posted on 03/11/2019 10:31:05 AM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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To: cantbetooconservative

Your comment is called common sense , reading some of these comments here most don’t have it ,


91 posted on 03/11/2019 10:32:48 AM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. ")
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To: piroque

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Daylight time simply slides the blanket to where it is more useful.


92 posted on 03/11/2019 10:33:32 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yep. My time too. :)


93 posted on 03/11/2019 10:35:01 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: cantbetooconservative

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School needs to start earlier.

Starting late simply wastes time for those that wish to be productive.


94 posted on 03/11/2019 10:35:35 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Cuttnhorse

This is what the farmers around me say as well. I’m not saying it made sense. I’m just saying that is what I heard the reason was. :)


95 posted on 03/11/2019 10:35:54 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Artemis Webb

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Did you feel the earthquake? :o)


96 posted on 03/11/2019 10:37:29 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: gunnyg

One possible decent compromise would be half hour time zones. Boston gets light almost an hour earlier than Toronto, even though they are in the same time zone and almost the same 42.5 degrees north.


97 posted on 03/11/2019 10:37:41 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: sarge83

I was actually thinking changing the clocks ahead 10 minutes at a time each month. From July through December, change them 10 minutes forward to gain daylight at the end of the day as the sunsets are getting earlier and then starting in January and going through June, change them 10 minutes back to take advantage of the increasing daylight. That way, it’s not such a shock and you are somewhat compensating for the increasing and decreasing daylight.


98 posted on 03/11/2019 10:39:00 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Think of the poor children walking to the school bus stop in the dark. Oh the humanity!


99 posted on 03/11/2019 10:39:10 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Cuttnhorse

This sort of covers the whole thing. It looks like it may have been created to, as someone else said, align the day of non-agrarian folks with what agriculture people were already doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time


100 posted on 03/11/2019 10:39:24 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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