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On 5/14/2025 2:52 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2025 23:14:03 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/13/2025 3:18 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 5/13/2025 1:18 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>> On 5/13/2025 8:45 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 5/12/2025 11:29 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/12/2025 6:05 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/12/2025 1:33 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But Mr. Timid Tricyclist just won't let it go. It allows him to
>>>>>>>> hide from discussing the current administration's crazy
>>>>>>>> incompetence. What a dupe.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pick an administration. Any administration. Select any of myriad
>>>>>>> examples of 'crazy incompetence'.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> USS Gettysburg shot down a fighter from her own carrier group (USS
>>>>>>> Truman) in the Biden administration in December.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then USS Truman lost two fighters overboard (one from sliding tow
>>>>>>> vehicle in April, one landing arrest failure in May.) in the 2d
>>>>>>> Trump administration.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-aircraft- carrier- red-sea-
>>>>>>> lost- another-super-hornet-2025-5?op=1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One never runs out of examples.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is each military mishap the fault of an executive administration?
>>>>>> I'd think that even the appointment of, say, a low experience
>>>>>> drunken Fox network personality would require quite a bit of time to
>>>>>> noticeably affect the competence of the world's largest military.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Appointing an egotistical and inexperienced cyber dude to pull in
>>>>>> other cyber dudes with no relevant qualifications, to hack away
>>>>>> randomly at every possible government agency, firing then rehiring
>>>>>> hundreds or thousands of competent workers? That's administrative
>>>>>> incompetence - one example among many.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, yes, your term 'crazy incompetence' pervades governments (not
>>>>> only US Federal government!)  in every administration. Hayek
>>>>> brilliantly wrote on the inherent failures of large bureaucracies, by
>>>>> their nature, well before key exemplars were born!
>>>>
>>>> First, it takes a large administration to run a large institution, and
>>>> a very large administration to run a large country. I doubt there are
>>>> any exceptions. And in any large administation you'll be able to find
>>>> examples of anything - competence, incompetence, stupidity,
>>>> brilliance. Isn't "we have one of everything" one of your talking points?
>>>>
>>>> That does NOT mean all administrations are equal. The unproductive
>>>> chaos generated by unleashing Musk and his buddy boys seems unique in
>>>> our history. I doubt one legitimate scientist thinks Kennedy is fully
>>>> sane, let alone competent. And the "Hillary Emails!!!" crew is giving
>>>> an astonishing pass to the signal chat leaks. I could list more, but I
>>>> think the current administration is on its way toward record
>>>> incompetence on multiple fronts.
>>>>
>>>> If you're defending all that, I'm curious about your thought
>>>> processes. Will it be "Yeah, but Obama wore a brown suit"?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The British Empire in the late Victorian era ran with a skimpy budget
>>> and a slim staff.
>>>
>>> https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uk-government-did-we-rule-the-
>>> empire-with-4000-civil-servants/
>>>
>>> And Britain didn't even have a 10th Amendment!
>>>
>>> Excess in funding and excess in hiring leads to 'mission creep' outside
>>> lawful useful limits. As we see.
>>>
>>> p.s. thanks for snipping my example. There are more.
>> Please! You of all people should understand the etiquette of trimming
>> posts. Of course "there are more." I won't bother to dig for videos of
>> Bush I saying "Read my lips: No new taxes" or Bush II dolled up in
>> military costume to proclaim "Mission accomplished" but we should
>> remember how those worked out.
>>
>> And about the size of the British empire administration: ISTM the point
>> of the article you linked is that there really were countless thousands
>> of people administering it. It was a very different world in the 1800s,
>> far less complex and moving at a far slower place with far simpler
>> technology; and the article seems to say that large numbers of
>> administrators were at work, although perhaps employed by colonies or
>> local government, not central government. You certainly can't pretend
>> that any current major nation can get by with a few thousand employees!
>>
>> In any case, you've deflected away from my point. Do you really think
>> the Trump administration is as competent as any other one in recent
>> history? I don't, and the general run of experts (including those
>> working for Trump's first administration) seem to rate this crew near
>> the bottom of the curve.
>>
>> The main qualification for hiring was, obviously, fealty to the wannabee
>> king. That doesn't tend to bring in the best people.
> 
> 
> Krygowski repeats what he's seen and heard from the leftist media and
> fails to note that today, inflation is down, the border is now locked
> up tight, illegal criminals are being booted, tariffs are being
> renegotiated, government waste is being lessoned, military enlistment
> is up, gas and grocery prices are down, and men are slowly
> (but surely) being banned from women's sports activities.
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman

You left out some very good news:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/tariff-receipts-topped-16-billion-in-april-a-record-that-helped-cut-the-budget-deficit.html

This is a minuscule reduction in the current year deficit 
but it's the first time in decades. Let's hope for more. Mr 
Jackson eliminated the entire national debt, and he was just 
some hick from Tennessee without a Wharton MBA.

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Andrew Muzi
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