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On Thu, 15 May 2025 08:30:51 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>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.
>> 
>
>Yup, seems to be following a trend since the peak in 2021
>
>https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/
>
>(let's not pretend the rate wasn't already well-managed before trump was 
>elected. That maga spunk works on people like kunich and the floriduh 
>dumbass, you're way too smart and aware to be suckered in by that 
>propaganda.)

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