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On 5/14/2025 6:47 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 5/14/2025 2:54 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 5/14/2025 8:48 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Hmm. Import duties or tariffs were raised. And son of a gun, import 
>> duty receipts increased! It's almost as if simple cause and effect 
>> still operates!
>>
>> But we have yet to see the actual overall effects. Consumer prices 
>> going up? Companies dealing with tangled and delayed supply chains? 
>> International trade shifting away from the U.S.? Most who are 
>> knowledgeable are expecting those and worse, not some miraculous surge 
>> in prosperity here. We'll see.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Between the British Empire and Jackson, you have a real infatuation 
>> with the 1800s. But the world has moved on in many ways. I think 1800s 
>> strategies have little likelihood of working today.
>>
>>
> 
> Liberty and small honest government never go out of style.
> 
> Yes trade is in tumult. As I wrote last week, the situation is as yet in 
> flux. I'll wait before panicking.
> 
> General inflation is at the lowest point since spring 2021.
> 

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