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Trump: The Art Of The Bureaucrat
Submitted by Doug French via Mises Canada,
Donald Trump says America’s problems are managerial. The political class is “stupid,” and “horrible negotiators.” He can fix the country’s problems instantaneously with his own entrepreneurial ability and by drafting into government service the likes of multi-billionaire Carl Icahn. Trump claims he said over dinner recently, “Carl, if I get this thing, I want to put you in charge of China and Japan, can you handle both of them? Okay? China and Japan,”
We’re to imagine Icahn telling his Washington secretary, “Get me China on the phone!” As Jeffrey Tucker explains, Trump sees the country as a single company competing against the companies of China and Japan Inc.. Tucker writes,
In effect, he believes that he is running to be the CEO of the country — not just of the government (as Ross Perot once believed) but of the entire country. In this capacity, he believes that he will make deals with other countries that cause the U.S. to come out on top, whatever that could mean. He conjures up visions of himself or one of his associates sitting across the table from some Indian or Chinese leader and making wild demands that they will buy such and such amount of product else “we” won’t buy their product.
Republican voters love it. He’s a breath of fresh, simple, political air. Maybe you’re a smartypants who thinks Trump’s tirades border on moronic. That’s because his answers scored at the 4th-grade reading level during the August 6th debate when the text of his answers was run through the Flesch-Kincaid grade-level test. Most adults wouldn’t pride themselves on speaking at that level, but, a certain financial newsletter operation I know wants their writers to produce Trump-level copy. So, there must be a market Trumpspeak.
“The role Trumpspeak has played in Trump’s surging polls suggests that perhaps too many politicians talk over the public’s head when more should be talking beneath it in the hope of winning elections,” Jack Shafer concludes in his Politico piece.
So if short, blocky words, combined into short, blocky sentences and in turn short, blocky paragraphs works wondrously with the voters, how about the federal bureaucracy The Donald would have to manage? Not that he really wants to manage the leviathan. Donny Deutsch was probably right when he told a Morning Joe audience that Donald is a real estate developer with ADD, always looking to move on to the next deal.
Has he considered that the federal government has two million employees, most of whom he can’t fire? And that’s not the half of it. “Post-1960 Federal America has become a grotesque Leviathan by proxy, in which an expanding mass of state and local government workers, for-profit contractors, and nonprofit grant recipients administers a vast portion of federal money and responsibilities,” writes John J.DiIulio Jr. for the Washington Post.
If Republican voters think a Trump presidency will be four to eight years of “The Apprentice” on steroids, with Trump telling those who disobey or slack off “You’re fired,” they are as delusional as their hero, who, as Nick Gillespie says, has a tenuous grasp on reality.
Dilulio points out that the federal government spends more than $600 billion per year on more than 200 grant programs for state and local governments whose workforces have tripled to more than 18 million. The result is these state workers essentially function as federal bureaucrats.
Medicaid, the EPA, the Defense Department, and the Department of Homeland Security all operate using private contractors. In the case of “the Energy Department [it] spends about 90 percent of its annual budget on private contractors, who handle everything from radioactive-waste disposal to energy production,” writes Dilulio.
Trump wouldn’t rule the government the way he rules his company. In his book Bureaucracy, Ludwig von Mises distinguished between business management and bureaucratic management. Business management is directed by the profit motive. “Bureaucratic management,” writes Mises, “is management bound to comply with detailed rules and regulations fixed by the authority of a superior body. The task of the bureaucrat is to perform what these rules and regulations order him to do. His discretion to act according to his own best conviction is seriously restricted by them.”
So while profit and loss dictate the goals of business management, “The objectives of public administration cannot be measured in money terms and cannot be checked by accountancy methods,” Mises explained.
Government keeps getting bigger because for the government bureaucrat, “In spending more money he can, very often at least, improve the result of his conduct of affairs.” Revenue and expenditures are completely separated. “In public administration there is no market price for achievements,” Mises wrote. “Bureaucratic management is management of affairs which cannot be checked by economic calculation.”
Trump’s appeal is that he is a successful businessman and that he’s rich. Mises made the point that the average citizen equates running government to running a business because most people are most familiar with businesses. “Then he discovers that bureaucratic management is wasteful, inefficient, slow, and rolled up in red tape.” “Why can’t government run like a business?” we often hear.
Mises answered the question decades ago, writing, “such criticisms are not sensible.” Trump, may have made billions, but “A former entrepreneur who is given charge of a government bureau is in this capacity no longer a businessman but a bureaucrat. His objective can no longer be profit, but compliance with the rules and regulations.”
Trump may be all about “The Art of the Deal,” but if he is elected, the deals he makes will be every bit as wasteful and tyrannical as those of his predecessors (or worse). “The quality of being an entrepreneur is not inherent in the personality of the entrepreneur; it is inherent in the position which he occupies in the framework of market society,” Mises emphasized.
A President Trump may be able to make small changes here or there, “But the setting of the bureau’s activities is determined by rules and regulations which are beyond his reach.”
Presidents come and go, but the unelected bureaucracy always remains. For all his simpleton bluster, even the mighty Trump is no match for the leviathan.
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Bushes will kill him like they helped kill the Kennedys
I'd still like to see someone try to fix things for a change.
Put this in your pipe and smoke it....http://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/2015/08/19/donald-trump-the-devils-...
Courtesy of http://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/
"Presidents come and go, but the unelected bureaucracy always remains."
Congress: STARVE THE BEAST! If the bureaucracy isn't funded it will not exist. DO YOUR JOB.
Hows about Executive Order the Beast into Extinction.
After all, the Progressives (irony) have shown us that Congress and Judiciary are irrelevant.
Obama is doing ANYTHING HE WANTS.......and SINCE he lost majority in the house and the senate.
All you need is a phone, a pen, and veto power.
Once upon a time I never thought that the greatest risk to the country would be the sitting president
Hey Doug why don't you actually wait until Trump is president before you criticize everything he's done as president....(I can't take this !@#$% anymore)
Trump will be the leader of all the orangutans and will teach all of them his hair mastery.
The private contractors are makiing out like bandits, too, lucky them. When I was up on the Eastern Shore of the Cheasapekae a few years ago working my fingers to the bone, most of the McMansions were owned by gubmint contractors or retired contractors on very generous pensions. It's a very sweet life for them. It's very much like Ferguson describes in When Money Dies; the private sector is ripped apart but the gubmint employees continue to do fairly well even with hyperinflation.
It's something Yutes should think about when selecting a career.
More Trump hate from the dopes who publish their mindless drivel on ZH. Maybe you'd like him more if he took off his shirt and wrestled a rhino?
If Big T had a black wife and 2.5 interracials he would be polling at +80%
I would like him more if he would I believed he was serious about helping the country. He isn't! He has not mentioned Ending the Fed! And if he suddenly mentioned it now, I would be leery. He has been on both sides of every issue, excepot for the Fed where he has been silent.
He hasn't said anything about Israhell either, or the 911 official farce. If he did, he would be dead in a week.
Ron Paul mentioned all of that and lives to tell about it. Now, he was cheated in 2012. The media and the establishment blackout his campaign. Strange they aren't doing that to Donald??
Trump has mentioned Isreal. He said he is the most militaristic candidate. He said he would invade Syria (which Isreal wants US to do) and send in oil companies.
And of course Trump wants the Fed or some other central bank. His value is mostly in real estate. You know the same real estate market that the Fed has prompted up and created an enormous bubble. That's probably why he is silent on the Fed.
All federal employees can be fired, or shot, or hanged.
Hellstheproblem?
Fuckin eh KH! If we can be droned by presidential decree, they can be fired by similar edict. I like hanged better, but if POTUS is willing to do the heavy lifting, why grumble?
Access to the internet but remains mired in impenetrable ignorance.
I know I am late to this party but:
1. Mises Canada is attacking Trump ? WTF ? Some people must be shitting their pants.
2. Trump has plenty of employees and I suspect he knows how to fire someone or squeeze them out. Ask air traffic controllers if they thought Reagan was bluffing.
3. For me Trump is the least objectionable of a ragtag group of presidential candidates. And thats not saying much. Hangers-on, shills, puppets, traitors, and B-teamers. Trump is not PC, so he can at least address any elephant in the room.
Half a loaf of bread is better than no loaf.
Maybe that's coming next week.
If he opens talks about killing the Fed they would immediately kill him. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
As far as the rest of the article.
Presidents come and go, but the unelected bureaucracy always remains.
Executive Orders can do wonderful things like redefine an employees job and send bureaucrats to count and catalog Montana snowflakes during January.
Bureacrats don't last for shit against someone determined to fire their ass and willing to play games.
The public employee unions would have Donald declaring bankrupcy from the bitch position before he could say "This is incredible!".
Trump should prove that he can go the distance with Putin.
Maybe a bare chested wrestling match with a bear.....?
Or perhaps Trump could load up a bunch of endangered geese and deliver them somewhere in his jets....?
turkeys, helicopters, Moscow ....
Les Nessman reporting.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
The analogy to the beauty pageant sponsor is left as an exercise for the reader.
That would certainly improve his entertainment value further.
We don't need a CEO that has bankrupted his companies. We don't need a dictator who wants to take our guns. We don't someone who will run government like a business, because it is not a business. By definition government is unproductive. We need to make governemnt as small as possible, so that the unproductive sector is a very tiny peice of the pie.
The only way to do that is, of course, what only one candidate is serious about: ending the federal reserve. If you cut off the squid's head, the rest of the tenticles will die too!
The author paints the bureaucracy in Washington as a Gordian Knot which no one can untangle, which is the argument of someone who has given up.
Well maybe the author should put on an orange jumpsuit and fly down to Syria so ISIS can saw off his head and put him out of his fucking misery, but you can count me out.
I believe Trump may be able to deliver the Alexander the Great solution and cut through that knot.
The SCOTUS.
They make ALL the decisions.
Once upon a time I never thought that the greatest risk to the country would be the sitting president
And NDAA Section(s) 1021 and 1022 with Congress' approval helped to make it a reality!
PS
If you think a guy like Trump won't abuse it -think again!
...define "abuse".
Trump should promise to recind every one of Obama's executive orders. Obama, if you want your ideas to stick, make them LAWS, using congress...
Trump has already said that the first thing he will do in office is to rescind every one of Obama's executive orders. I don't like all the things he says (longer waiting periods for guns, imprison Snowden, etc), but at least he's half-assed right.
Why limit it to Obama? Oh, I forgot, it's full tag team, Republican fascist, authoritarian anti-liberty shit don't count.
The world is searching for soaring eagles and these pea brained tag teams are on topsoil scratching and picking shit with the chickens.
Posner the commie, sidekick plant on Donahue's old show said something that all totalitarians believe, "Communism is really a good system, they just haven't found the right people to run it, YET.". He was the ultimate Trinity, the commie, the fellow traveler, and the useful idiot all packaged in one idiot.
Trump probably isn't a commie, only a greedy whore, but he's dangerous in that he actually believes that he's the reincarnation of Perot, "Larry, we'll just raise up the hood and fix it, Larry". Bullshit, convert the aircraft carrier to a bass boat would be a good first step. Leviathan cannot be fixed.
What the???
Donald Trump Makes Sexual Advances on Rudy Giuliani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Q_ol_76Fc
lame.
Go back to snorting meth and abusing that dildo of yours purchased with your welfare check.
Cracka please.
PRO.223.
If you want to see someone make a change, it will take more than a president and your vote. It will require some blood I'm afraid. When it comes to feeding the tree of Liberty, Hopium is as good as Round Up. Blood and bone is the only fertilizer that it will readily absorb.
No brother, the State, those faceless gate protectors of the system, can't be overcome even by national heros such as Ike or the Kennedy's (their back-ground histories aside).
where did the utter destruction of the use of the apostrophe come from? frickin 80% of people have forgotten how to use it.
I don't believe we have any reference point should The Donald become President.
This man loves nothing more than to kick the asses of dissenters in public.
H e has also shown that he has the capacity to change his position if his original assessments were wrong.
You say you want a revolution? Then vote Trump.
Don't forget Reagan and Hinckly.
MOAR Cowbell!!
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
Trump is the most fun clown in the circus...anyone supporting any presidential candidate is insane but trump by far wins the entertainment value...ANYWAY! I have such a friggin great idea for Tyler/zerohedge. Ok, you know how this deez nuts thing kinda took off yeah? Ok, zerohedge is not a small unknown website, and if I were Tyler I would do the following. RON PAUL 2016. Just start posting articles, whether fake or not, saying Ron Paul running for president. I havnt got this all figured out quite yet, but I bet if zerohedge were to support Ron Paul, it would go viral. You want hits Mr Tyler? Take what I just said and refine it with that superfine mind you have and make it so. You will be a legend in your own time. We will start now: Even tho my idea needs to be thought out, all those for Ron Paul 2016, raise your hands...Lets see what happens.
Maybe we should all get together (conspire) to support Obama and his policies no matter how bad they are and rally for a third term in office...it would drive people nuts because who in their right minds understands the issues but supports these lunatics anyways? It has probably already been done before, nevermnd.
I was just clowing around zirp....this circus is crazy...I didnt even give you a down vote, because if that is you in the picture, you look very angry and I wanna give you a hug :-)
"Small" changes here and there, just like Obama? Gee, those small changes added up to some pretty big changes for our country.
Obama is alot like FDR, I would like to see a third term and if a war with China and Russia breaks out he would have all the legal precedent to postpone the 2016 election.
Name ONE federal election that was postponed due to war.
the law didnt exist when FDR did it
If I remember right, Ronny Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers, Obama has a kill list which is not legal either, Clinton did whatever he needed to to divert attention from Lewinski including sending off a few missiles in far off places.
I think Trump will ignore the rules like everyone does including Hitlery and do his thing.
Apparently there is NO ONE that can tell the prez, "NO" !
In business, "You're fired!" is not Standard Operating Procedure. It's usually more nuanced, and often mutually accepted, particularly at the executive level. To think Tump can't effectively fire people as he pleases, is naive. Just look at Obozo and the military over the past years. At the top levels- retirements and indictments outnumber firings. And the exodus of the experienced rank and file has been just as profound. Cut their budgets, relocate them to Alaska, make them wear funny uniforms, and sing songs of praise about their Deal Leader and his glorious hair every morning and they will find the exit themselves....
Reagan fired the traffic controllers that were on strike-illegally. One of the rules for this high paying gov job was you were not allowed to strike because of the seriousness of the job requirements. I had a few friends in Chicago that were my age and doing very well until they got canned and were pissed as hell. I tried to get in, but alas I was 6 months too old for qualification
So what, we just stand aside and let Hillary oe Jeb or even Bernie Sanders continue to flush us down the shitter of Statism?
How about we not, and see what the wildcard can do. Hell, it cant be any worse than the alternative.
um, Trump is a STATIST like the rest! The only definite non-statist is Rand Paul
One of my Progressive buds almost cried saying that "Trump will get us into more wars."
I pointed out to him that Obie's already taken care of that. He told me I was racist.
Is an orange haired orangutan a race or a species?
Depends on where it's from.
Hey Trump, if you are a successful binizzz man why can't you fix Atlantic City, eh, chump-O?
http://philosophersforchange.org/2015/09/01/the-plague-of-american-authoritarianism
solution: take 'em out, line 'em up and shoot 'em.
This is one long argument from authority
where the authority is recognized by a handful of people, a large chunk of whom embrace the simple, simplistic notions of open borders and 'free trade' because that is what's "fair" according to...them.
Good luck with that.
A lot of people reject the 'Merica Fuck Yeah warmongering of the past, oh, 200 years, but still like the idea of America.
We can talk about phasing out nation states and all their eeevil statism when open borders won't mean destroying the country in the name of "free market economics"
Some people haven't yet learned that "the economy" is meant to serve us - not the other way 'round.
open borders and 'anarchy' right now would benefit very few, indeed.
Really? Barack Obama hasn't seemed to have had any trouble in fundamentally changing America.
And he told us what he was going to do before hand, also. So what's the big deal with Trump?
Seems reasonable to me.
So the Rothbardians in Canada and Tyler don't like Trump. BFD. Millions of Republicans do.
yep, millions of statist Republicans. Because that's exactly what this country was founded upon - STATISM. And that's exactly what we need more of - STATISM. As long as it's of the Repuplican flavor, of course.
do I really have to add an explicit /sarc tag? wow
High school yearbooks from the late-'80s are littered with quotations from Trump's, "The Art of the Deal." Then there was an expansion of bidnisss degrees offered by the unis. Reflecting on the quoters, they turned out to be mostly a gaggle of douchbags.
Yeah Trump doesnt give a shit about anyone but Trump. Seriously look in the dictionary for the word narcissist and youll see his picture in there. His books are completely ridiculous and feature pictures of him with famous people like Mike Tyson. He wants attention, money and fame. Making America great again? Maybe, but only if it benefits him. I dont know what kind of president the guy would make but he has all the personality disorders of the current one.
Every one I have shows Obama.
Must be in the new edition.
Revolution. Barry incarcerated. All congress removed/indicted. Fresh paper ballot (no Diebold) elections. Most alphabet soup agencies axed. Bill of Rights restored, Eleventh Amendment on axed. No dual-citizens in government. All fedgov employees fired and allowed to reapply, if agency still exists. All laws abhorrent to Constitution (Patriot Act, everything Barry has signed) considered null and void. Banksters/Fed tried and hung for treason. It is a start.
You talk just like what Ron Paul has talked about for decades. thank you....quit funding other countries in the middle east including israel is one you missed tho.
The list is long! We wanted others to chime in, you and Buster have necessary additions. More: Rehire the top brass patriot military men commie Barry let go. Turn UN building into Freedom Museum and tell UN to go fuck themselves. Come on folks, it's cathartic!
lol TD. You made some great points. I would pay to be able to help. Too bad the elite's plan is to erradicate US dollar reserve status. Think BIS as a one world governmental currator of capitol. Oh, and the UN? The main condiut for orchastrating global securtiy, partiy and control.
Sorry to let you down.
#1 From this day forward, the U.S.Govt. can no longer borrow money.
#2 End the fed
#3 Term-limit all federal employees to 8 yrs - transferable 401k's but NO pensions. Make retroactive.
Now, on a roll.........repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments. Implement 'Fair Tax', abolish the IRS, DOE, Commerce, HUD or whatever it's called now...........and so on........
Why did you stop?
Every living President indicted and flown to Geneva for a War Crimes Trial.
Every Senator and Representative that voted to support war sent to Geneva for a War Crimes Trial.
Every Supreme submitted to mental institutions for frontal lobotomies.
Southern Wall built by the bodies of attempted illegal crossers.
Term limits for Congress, Supreme Court Justices, and all federal judges.
Return of all federally "owned" land to the States.
Remove Woodrow Wilson's name from everywhere, especially the bridge over the Potomoc. Obam's too. And Bush, Bush, Clinton, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Ford, FDR, and 50% of Reagan memorials (for incrasing spending and fed. education).
Expell all Saudi govt. funded mosques, prohibit Saudi money from Universities, and close down islamic training centers.
Expel illegal, just like the millions they did in the 30's -- https://cognitivefungus.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/america-had-an-illegal-...
Deport all hyphenated-Americans.
There can be only one type of American.....those with a capital "A"...and no fucking prefixes.
What about 'Muricans? We got rights too!
call me when trump utters these 3 simple words...........END THE GODDAMN FUCKING MONEY PRINTING ZIO CONTROLLED FEDERAL RESERVE BANK..........
The federal (and most states) government is totally out of control and is insatiable for more power and control. Trump would do fine until he hit his first in-house road block and either have a nervous breakdown or blow his brains out. He literally could not survive in that environment.
No funding no employment, who cant be fired?
Not that Trump or anyone else will fire people, lowers your political power base when the idea is to build it.
But to say there are protected jobs that can't be removed, is saying your not creative enough to remove them.
same thing happened to Arnold in Cali, he got slapped down
Just when the century’s old fight between the bankers and the people enters the battlefield, Doug French says there will be no one to carry the leadership spear against the leviathan. His evidence is that the trail of pygmies who have occupied the White House have never had the power to make any significant changes.
But he’s overlooking the rising champion that will take the field to slay the banker monster… and that champion is the determined middle class.
The disparaging comments and mockery of Trump overlook the fact that more than any presidential candidate in recent memory he has stirred the hope and anger from the middle class translating into their opposition to the “stupid” politicians. If Trump is not the president, we are still hastening to the day when the middle class takes its country back.
Trump is stirring up the people; and the others can’t handle it. He’s upsetting the Republican Establishment and it's scared to death. Its idea was to sit there and rule with the Democrats and make no changes.
A man who will write a column like this has a candidate in mind or is opting for the status quo.
Is it just me or do I see no presedent in 2016? China/everyone is selling treasury bills...the petrodollar is on life support with not much time left to live. almost 100 million americans out of work. obamacare has ruined the health care system. Syria is about to create a thunderstorm, stock market is collapsing, oil is collapsing, ten billion quadrillion dollars in debt, lol, chemtrails ruining the environment, the EPA closing down anything they can get their hands on, the FBI using patsies as terrorists, christians supporting israel because of some rapture BS, vaccines killing and maming, gmo food sprouting up everywhere, 30 plus million illegal immigrants most of them on welfare...the indoctrination system they call education,,..etc, do I need to go on? Its over people, I am sorry, but there is no hope anymore. Ron Paul is the only one that told us about all of this.
Find me a presidentail candidate that explains this stuff like Ron Paul, and makes commercials to tell people to start preparing, then wake me up.
Sit back enjoy the show as the tumors in your body grow.
Nature wins, always. Humans will be lucky if they make it into the rock record.
Last time I checked, the average life expectancies were way up from 100 years ago when everything was 'organic'. I always ask for extra gluten - really pisses some folks off.
Sorry the Dept of Educatiuon no longer exists along with most of IRS, Homeland Security, Envir. Protection, NSA, etc so your job is terminated. There Fixed it.
Lets get rid of the department of de-fence as well.
They just use a lot of resources and destroy them.
I dare him to start firing bureaucrats. They'll cut him to pieces.
If Mitch Mcconnell likes Trump, We will absolutely kick Ass as a nation.
Won't the Donald have a pen and a phone too?
grab some DNA from Ol' Hickory and make a clone
Yes we could use more leaders that would dismantle the central bank, get us out of debt, and even duel a politician or two that supports the banks.
"Donald Trump says America’s problems are managerial. The political class is “stupid,” and “horrible negotiators.” He can fix the country’s problems instantaneously with his own entrepreneurial ability and by drafting into government service the likes of multi-billionaire Carl Icahn."
Where have I heard that all before?
Oh, in '92 by a guy called Perot. Turns out he was a fake-candidate designed to make it easier to throw the vote to the CIA and neocons' friend and partner in crime, Clinton. Clinton's mandate ws to pass NAFTA.
Different shit, same swirl in the bowl.
It's theater folks. Nothing but theater. The next Oval Office puppet has been selected, and your so-called vote does not count, no matter how many purple unicorns they promise you.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.
forget it Chris...just more people hoping for hope as the democrats did with obama. They just dont get it and they will be complaining just as most of the obama supporters...
Its over Chris, people have been too dumbed down...Love you my friend. We live in a completely different world, and most do not understand it. And what they dont understand, they fear, so they go back to their own vomit...
I think they will pick hillary or biden...probably hillary. Then bill clinton will be the leader of the united nations. By 2016, the United States of America will be a third world nation. If not worse.
Trump is a master salesman and I'm glad he is making the election fun. Imagine having to listen to Pinocchio for another 14 months lying her way to the coronation. It's great to see him punching her in the face. If the Democrats best options are to run a commie and a pathological liar, why shouldn't the Republicans enjoy themselves.
Good Luck Mr. Trump!
Our collective best dayz are in the "rear view mirror"!
Hope you are much smarter than you look, especially on issues of foreign policy!!!
The problem is that such a moral collapse has taken place the vermin are fully in the light of day... all a result of cheap money... and blah, blah, blah... We have all repeated these words ad nauseam, etc, etc...
Makes one almost long for the collapse.
The sheep are not the wittiest creatures on God's ten acres, but they do start to get it eventually... when the grass runs out, and their lambs are sold for body parts, and their water is shipped off to China, used to house the Delta Smelt, or to hose down some long toothed wolf's limousine.
Funny enough even a sheep will fight back. My eldest Anatolian Shepherd, whilst still in her youth, one day got it in her head to nip at the heels, or rather hooves,of one of my ewes. And the ewe whirled around, head-butted her sideways, sent her flying about ten feet, leaped through the air and landed on the poor dogs's side where she promptly bit her, then turned around, walked off, and began grazing again.
As we all know this will end bloody. But if the point of this article is to suggest that Trump is not politically savy, or that only someone who understands that government is an unmovable mass of deadwood that only a seasoned veteran can properly manage, as only a seasoned veteran understands that little to nothing can be meaningfully accomplished, I say fuck em...
I paid for this show, the least I can expect is a colorful ending...
Subversion by the army of public union bureaucrats is true but preseidents can appoint kick ass heads of departments that can shake things up and disempower the entrenched losers that undermine the spirit of the law. Maybe even break up the unions which are adversarial to the public interest.
Example, appointing an IRS head that will fuck with the lawess public union employees can make a big difference. Never underestimate the power of scapegoating a few real assholes (instead of the other way around) or throwing a cunt like Lois Lerner into jail to make an example out of them. They'll start ratting each other out real quick.
Absolutely. The power of the bureaucracy is a convenient myth for the status quo. From the bully pulpit a strong president could gain the people’s support and overnight start the dominoes in all the phases of the Federal government that would dismantle the leviathan.
"His objective can no longer be profit, but compliance with the rules and regulations.” Wrong. His (or anyone's) objective SHOULD BE TO GET RID OF MOST OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS.
Most of these kid RINO 20-somethings have only known Rump in The Apprentice. This is only their 1st experience with Rump press blitzes. I remember at least 5 in my life. He's a huckster with a busy PR man.
Basically, all these stupid kids are envisioning Rump saying something TV-witty like, "Detroit, ya fiyad."
I was thinking about Ted Cruz but then I heard him talk the last few days and 90% of his speeches are about Planned Parenthood.
wtf?!
We have 95 million people out of work, we're involved in several undeclared wars and foreigners are flooding our nation and all he can talk about is PP?
So looks like he's off my list also. Seems as misdirected as Bush but for different reasons.
Ted Cruz is dangerous for America, he puts Israel before America every bit as much as Netanyahu.
Why Ted Cruz Is So Dangerous
Laurence M. Vance
He is such a warmonger, militarist, and interventionist. Forget everything good he says about the free market and limited government. Forget everything bad he says about Obama and the Democrats. Forget about how “conservative” he is. Here is Cruz on the Iran deal:
“If this deal is consummated, it will make the Obama administration the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism. Billions of dollars under control of this administration will flow into the hands of jihadists who will use that money to murder Americans, to murder Israelis, to murder Europeans.”
It is the U.S. military that is the greatest sponsor of terrorism. If you don’t believe me then ask the millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Afghans, and Iraqis who were on the receiving end of U.S. weapons. Oh, I forgot, you can’t ask them—they are dead.
July 30, 2015
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/why-ted-cruz-is-so-dangerous/
The author is 100% correct at this moment in time. A massive entrenched bureaucracy will resist at all costs. But that is where Trump and “austerity” come in. Cut ALL their f***ing budgets by 30% and hold the top bureaucrats accountable for results, and attitudes will change…quickly. If you can’t prove what you’re doing is valuable and cost-effective…goodbye. But congress must NOT stand in the way. They must support the cutting of 500,000 govt workers and contractors. Many of these workers are unionized, so can congress stand up to their whining? Laid-off govt workers won’t be buying cars and houses, and the only jobs are flipping burgers at ¼ the pay they were used to working for Uncle Sugar. If nothing is done it is all going to collapse anyway…lose-lose at this point.
Big cuts in entitlements and services too. Try cutting Medicare or Social Security or veterans’ benefits. Watch the special interest groups go nuts.
Special interest group? Fox News reported in August of 2012: “People retiring today (except low income workers) are part of the first generation of workers who have paid more in Social Security taxes during their careers than they will receive in benefits after they retire. It's a historic shift that will only get worse for future retirees, according to an analysis by The Associated Press…"
Sorry, I tried to tip you. Three times. Obviously there are things that are not allowed to be Approve Of on ZH.
and the only jobs are flipping burgers at ¼ the pay they were used to working for Uncle Sugar.
1/4??
Try 1/15. Average .gov salery: $100k + benefits.
Average burger flipper @ Mcdonald's: $10k w/ NO benefits.
Fuck the .gov
Thanks, Faeriedust. But I think it's just a very busy day on ZH; sometimes you just have to keep on trying. In general, ZH is a very generous site. :-)
It's true that Trump can do less than delusion imagines. But he can certainly do more than the author implies. Ronald Reagan brought government expansion to nearly a dead stop in eight years, except for defense spending. Trump's ideology is hardly so pure, so he's unlikely to change as much as Reagan. And some of the loopholes Reagan used have been closed precisely because he used them. But simply by cooperating with Republican budget-cutters rather than opposing them, he could wreak havoc with Social Security, with Medicare, and especially with the EPA, which has proceeded almost exclusively through administrative fiat and Executive Order for twenty years.
Trump is not what the country needs, but this isn't the reason. He would be hogtied from making changes which might, possibly, do some good by loosening red tape and undercutting some of the new ACA bureaucracy. But he would still be able to do massive damage to many programs for which there are no reasonable local, state, or private alternatives. Meanwhile, his abrasive personality would strike sparks from many powerful individuals whose assistance is needed to get anything done. If you think Obama has been rendered useless due to personality conflicts, just wait until you put a megalomaniac who THRIVES on conflict into the job. A President CAN fire most Executive Branch workers, no matter who tells you otherwise. But he can't fire the people's elected representatives. Hooooo Boy, that would be a squabble.
He doesn't have to abide by the BS civil service rules. He can defy the court. He can order that paychecks not be printed. Congressional appropriations are an authority to spend - they are not a mandate to spend.
Surprisingly Trump's "abrasive personality" has not impeded him from doing thousands of deals with other parties in business.
Just maybe he is only "abrasive" when he is dealing with incompetents and people attacking him and who are not relevant to any deals he wants to do.
You apparently believe the Trump you see in the media is the only facet of the man, despite the fact there is a fundamental inconsistency between that image and the building of a very large company and fortune over a long period of time, in a field that requires a person to continually interact with customers, suppliers and partners, in many cases in long term relationships.
With his finger on the nuclear button, bureaucrats are irrelevant, and we are all dead.
“WHY THE DOGS OF HELL HAVE BEEN UNLEASHED ON DONALD TRUMP”
Read it all.
Two people I know who could not be more different, my aunt and my building contractor, both asked recently who I was voting for and before I could reply, canted their heads rigidly and blurted out defiantly they were voting for Trump. Author Wayne Allyn Root in the column you cite, I believe has the reason:
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I wrote a book titled “The Murder of the Middle Class” about the unholy conspiracy between big government, big business and big media. They all benefit by the billions of dollars from this partnership, and it’s in all of their interests to protect one another. It’s one for all and all for one. It’s a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich — everyone except the American people. We get ripped off. We’re the patsies.
But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared. I’ve never seen them this outraged, this vicious, this motivated or this coordinated. Never in all my years in politics have I seen anything like the way the mad dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump
[M]ost of the other politicians are part of the “old boys club.” They talk big, but in the end they won’t change a thing. Why? They are all beholden to big-money donors. They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations and multinational corporations like Big Pharma or Big Oil. Or they are owned lock, stock and barrel by foreigners like George Soros owns Obama or foreign governments own Hillary with their Clinton Foundation donations.
These run-of-the-mill establishment politicians are all puppets owned by big money. But there’s one man — and only one man — who isn’t beholden to anyone. There’s one man who doesn’t need foreigners, or foreign governments, or George Soros, or the United Auto Workers, or the teachers union, or the Service Employees International Union, or the bar association to fund his campaign.
Billionaire tycoon and maverick Donald Trump doesn’t need anyone’s help. That means he doesn’t care what the media says. He doesn’t care what the corporate elites think. That makes him very dangerous to the entrenched interests. That makes Trump a huge threat. Trump can ruin everything for the bribed politicians and their spoiled slave masters. …
I agree with commenter thinkingdownstream's response yesterday:
There is one certainty in this election: A vote for GOPe-certified candidate is a vote for accelerating the status quo, the death of the middle-class, the decline of American values, destruction of the rule of Law and Constitutional protections of individual liberties and rights.
The GOP party leaders screw us harder and harder every time we vote for them – this time will be worse, far, far worse.
JR
Bombast and hair aside, Trump has been playing his cards well. If he runs as a third candidate, the GOP sits in the corner for another 8 years.
Trump knows and has excercised power- I don't see him backing away from a fight.
Hillary must be hiding some pretty nasty stuff in her e-mails to take the shit-show she must have strategically elected to take ?
K
He's a cunt. See the hair for proof.
Sorry author,
until you understand that a corrupt Congress is the issue most in need of fixing,
you waste your time.
Ah, nothing like a leader who admits he himself is useless, but he knows a guy...
So tired of this bloviating detritus symbolizing everything that has gone wrong with entrepreneurialism in America.
What are you talking about? Knowing a guy who knows a guy is the best and quickest way to get things done in my experience. Especially if suitcases with small denomination bills are involved.
At the very least, he can fire all the Marxist department heads. That in itself would go a long way in fixing problems.
In a wonderful metaphor the top of the Trump Tower in Toronto is falling off.
Yeh, like Obama has really been hampered by all those rules.
The author appears not to understand the difference between the Westminster system of government (Canada) and the US presidential system.
Under the Westminster system the PM's options to head government departments are basically politicians who did not get elected for their competence in a future portfolio, whereas a president can appoint heads chosen for competence (of course in practice many/most of their choices have been political favors) and the same applies to a substantial number of the senior ranks in each department unlike the Westminster system.
Further, under the Westminster system, the PM can be fired at any time by a majority of his party, for whatever reason. So if he fires underperforming ministers he knows he is building up a group of enemies in his party who can group together and sack him. A president does not have that constraint on sacking incompetents.
And of course a lot of the harm done by Obama and Bush has been NOT applying law and regulation that is on the books. Those laws will be readily available to Trump whithout having to make any legal changes.
Federal government Senior Executive Service employees, which are the senior mangers and most political appointees, can be fired at any time.
Wrong. The author simply doesn't know what he is talking about. In another life, I spent years working for the Feds and it is quite possible to stop it and gut it. Its just takes balls.
Here's how -- Pulling decision making to the White house will stop the govt. dead in its tracks.
Day one -- the President pulls all "delegations of authority". FYI, all statutes instruct the President to do specific things, the president delegates the work to agencies who work for him, e.g., DOD, NSA, EPA.. With every new administration, the White House pulls delegations of authority for big programs/statutes. This gves the WH time to review what that program has been doing recently and change course, if they want (I've even seen programs cancelled). Until the WH returns the delegations of authorities, the agencies have no authority to promulgate rules, issue policies, take enforcement action, issue grants or contracts -- nothing. Dead in the water. I've experienced this every new adminstration and it often went on for months until the WH returned the authority. The President doesn't ever have to return the delegations.
Day one -- The President can stop programs by shifting budgets, regardless of what congressional appropriations committees authorize, which never give enough money ofr the work. WH claims they are given too much work for too little money and have to prioitize. Money can be shifted out of agency accounts within minutes. I've seen it successfully done many times.
Day one -- The WH stops all publications in the Federal Register unless approved by the WH. All rules, policies, execurtive orders, etc. must be published in the federal register to be official/enforceable.
Day one -- Accept the resignation of every Senior Executive Service member (even if not offerred). Do not replace them, which leaves agencies/programs leaderless -- and shifts all management decisions up to the next level which is the WH.
Day one -- Suspend all contracts. I've seen this done a couple of times. Work stops immediately. The author of this article clearly has now experience in federal contracts and grants management rules.
State grants can be limited or stopped too. I've seen the feds reduce the amount of money promised to the states in their grants.
Day one -- cancel the employee union agreements. Yes this can be done (the govt. never binds itself completely). Sure they will sue, but so what. Once the unions are out, it is easy to do RIF employees (reduction in force). RIFs have happened before.
If you do all of the above, then employees will sit idle for a while being paid until you process RIF termination paperwork. But I'd rather them sitting idle and being aid for a couple weeks then working to add to the tryanny.
A bizzy first day in the office. All this can be prepared in advance so the Pres. can act on day one.
Like the lying, race-baiting, Marxist Muslim dictator in the White House has been doing?
Obama certainly has been moving money around to support his priorities. They all do this which is why I say it can be done by Trump or whoever gets in office. Programs mandated by congress sit idle because the WH can only fund so many programs given the funds congress gives them. When money is short, the Pres. moves money around to support his priority prorgams and the rest get screwed.
Every empire has it's bureauocrats sometimes called stooges. They do as they are told but enforce laws that may not even be known to others with interpretations they themselves have devised. They are persistent. Their only weakness is...they must be paid.
If the dollar hits a rough patch and goes away many of the 'crats will have to go too. It would be this opportunity, if presented to a new executive that could lead to the great enema that every nation needs from time to time. And what better way to wrest back control than to allow them to wander off, than a fiscal emergency.
Watch the movie, The Lives of Others. The scene in which the postal workers see the wall fall is telling. They just get up and walk out, knowing it is all over.
Without entrenched workers who know the rules and have organized to enforce them to the benefit of the ruling party, the insanity can't go on.
The coming turmoil will be a once in a century chance for the entire world to get rid of things that no longer make sense. It will be chaotic but in the end I believe it will be for the best.
The USA has a government that no longer needs taxpayers because they fund their activities through borrowing. The end of this arrangement is not only in sight, it is in our faces. I say hooray. I hope there enough people in the government of good will to keep the masses from starving. If the masses see that a new era has arrived they will change their behavior to meet that new era. It will be a time like the distant past but with new tools for dealing with problems that could not be resolved with today's monetary system.
If Trump sees his opportunity he or someone else could break from thenpast and lead the nation into the brave new world.
Every empire has it's bureaucrats sometimes called stooges. They do as they are told but enforce laws that may not even be known to others with interpretations they themselves have devised. They are persistent. Their only weakness is...they must be paid.
If the dollar hits a rough patch and goes away many of the 'crats will have to go too. It would be this opportunity, if presented to a new executive that could lead to the great enema that every nation needs from time to time. And what better way to wrest back control than to allow them to wander off, than a fiscal emergency.
Watch the movie, The Lives of Others. The scene in which the postal workers see the wall fall is telling. They just get up and walk out, knowing it is all over.
Without entrenched workers who know the rules and have organized to enforce them to the benefit of the ruling party, the insanity can't go on.
The coming turmoil will be a once in a century chance for the entire world to get rid of things that no longer make sense. It will be chaotic but in the end I believe it will be for the best.
The USA has a government that no longer needs taxpayers because they fund their activities through borrowing. The end of this arrangement is not only in sight, it is in our faces. I say hooray. I hope there enough people in the government of good will to keep the masses from starving. If the masses see that a new era has arrived they will change their behavior to meet that new era. It will be a time like the distant past but with new tools for dealing with problems that could not be resolved with today's monetary system.
If Trump sees his opportunity he or someone else could break from thenpast and lead the nation into the brave new world.
Servicing the debt is the point of taxation. The parasites require the labor and blood of the sheeple for their twisted existence.
You guys are fucking morons. The next president has already been chosen. Hell, it might even be trump. If it is then he has already agreed to do exactly what he is fucking told.
Grow the fuck up. There is no hope in politics. If you want the hard cold truth I think there is no hope at all. The deep state has already won, and is undefeatable at this moment in history. But for you jackasses to be placing your hope in the lapdog in chief... that eliminates whatever slim chance there may be to turn this cesspool around.
Don't worry about trump. His vocabulary's better than most cracked up westerners (excellent by what I've been hearing lately). Basically, bernie's not going to get elected, barrie's not going to be hanged, so the reason I'm voting for trump is because of what he won't do. Basically everything this article says he would.
Why don't you just not vote?
Administrations come and go, but the National Security State (Deep State) remains.
An excellent post earlier by Solar describes how any President can control the government - but lest we forget - Obama has established the Executive Order as a tool to bypass Congress or any existing laws!
Ummm, before we say what Trump cannot do - especially in the way of cuts - we might remember the Sequestor!
I talk about this so often, a lot of people laugh, think it is a joke, and simply accept the shit they are fed that no country can run or operate without govt and that means bureaucracy is as necessary as fucking oxygen.
And it is fucking bollocks.
I have business that does nothing else but help others to do one thing.
The one thing I have practiced, tried and perfected, failed and changed at times, but always aiming for one goal.
BUREAUCRACY EVASION.
Unlike tax evasion, no one has ever been convicted of bureaucracy evasion, there are no laws prohibiting bureaucracy evasion, it is legal i is doable and I haven't dealt with a fucking cock sucking sociopathic parasitic cunt called a fucking bureaucrat in over 25 years.
I do NOT fill their forms in, I do not answer to them, I give them no information, I never speak to them, I don answer their mails , letters phone calls or anything whatsoever to do with them.
Its not the easiest thing to do, and it sure as hell helps if you have a business, but there are 100 million plus Americans also that are off grid, don't work, not seeking work, not on benefits, not claiming benefits, and who are also perfectly capable of simply disappearing as far as a bureaucrat is concerned.
I could write book on it, I have no property in my name, I have never held any asset in my name, Luckily I do not need or ever want fucking credit card, I never need to borrow money especially from a fucking bank..
I have bank accounts, but they are savings or ATM accounts and not even in my name, and they are off shore.
But I can draw cash at any ATM anonymously anywhere in the world.
No bureaucrats look for me to file corporate accounts or tax returns. they have no contact number of address to send anything. My business is done through offshore companies, mostly in London, and it costs less than $20 to set up a new corporation and you don have to set foot in the UK to do it.
I open them and close them like I change my socks.
I am a permanent tourist and wherever I am is where I do not live, No matter where I am my address is always overseas, and no one ever bothers a tourist.
The sheep and the idle and the stupid will do nothing, they are the apathetic herd that will follow each other over the cliff.
I am not one of them, I see no connection, no commonalty, I don't even see them as the same species. and we share nothing whatsoever in common in thinking or understanding.
But there are some smarter than the fucking herd of moronic sheep, some who do see how dangerous the world is and wan to survive, some who have experienced things or read and understood history, and who know that there is in reality no difference now in the capability of any fucker to commit murder and genocide than ever occurred over thousands of years, from medieval wars in Europe to the first and second world wars.
Hundreds of millions have died in wars and hundreds of millions enslaved in the last couple of thousand years, and none of them saw it coming.
I see it all around me, I travel, I have been to Africa, Europe, Russia, Asia I have seen what happened in almost every place. Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Iran, Iraq, India, Yugoslavia, Cambodia.
The stink of death is palpable.
The bureaucrats cause the wars, it is to save themselves, they are the parasites that feed on humans, if you need to save yourselves, then kill all bureaucrats. Butcher them from the fucking Nazi traffic cop to the fucking old bag reporting on you from the fucking library.
Otherwise, just evade bureaucracy. When you successfully evade bureaucracy the tax avoidance is a free extra and I love life with no fucking parasitic scum on my back.
It's called being a hobo.
Not ownining propery is all fine and dandy for you... but some of us have to live in the real world. It's unfortunate that this forum has fewer and fewer real investors talking about real strategies, and instead its become tin foil central.
The algos are taking over the comments section of ZeeH. Anyone making a call to violence against any one group is clearly bonkers.
"I am a permanent tourist and wherever I am is where I do not live, No matter where I am my address is always overseas, and no one ever bothers a tourist."
Amazing you can do all this, avoid all bureaucracies, AND, not have a passport???
Your overconfidence is astonishing.
Congratulation!
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Trump says: "We shall overcomb".
Trump wants to build stuff. Trump also thinks private enterprise can build stuff better than .gov - the current .gov already agrees with Trump.
Amerika is already outsourced : money printing to the Fed, the military to the Cabal, the legislation to Liars Inc., Unions running the legal rackets, etc... Let's get real.
Trump is entertainment for an obsessed World. Another buffoon to ridicule or genius to admire.
Trump: Just got back from xxx, amazing people, amazing crowd...
I like what he's doing but to say he's a scratched record would be 100% correct.
While the gov obviously has a lot of fat to trim, you guys are nuts or naive if you think it's a good thing to walk in and chop it all off in one big cut. A few million well-paid people freshly unemployed? You do realize that no matter how much you hate these gov workers that they spend those overinflated salaries buying stuff that turns into profit for other people in the economy, right?
And when those two million start competing for jobs with everyone else wages are going to fall even further than they have. The answer would be to put in a law which makes it so that each time a person retires or quits a government job, his/her supervisor looks into ways to replace that person's work without hiring another person (in many cases it won't be too hard). Then you give them a bonus based on the number of jobs they eliminate. Doing this over time will shrink gov while not shocking the rest of the economy.
“A former entrepreneur who is given charge of a government bureau is in this capacity no longer a businessman but a bureaucrat. His objective can no longer be profit, but compliance with the rules and regulations.”
Yeah, right. We all know how hard the CFTC, the SEC, the FBI, the CIA and the NSA (just to name five agencies) make sure they are in compliance with federal rules and regulations (or more importantly the US Constitution).
In light of the rogue actions, and/or failure to follow existing federal laws/rules and regulations or the US Constitution, seen from just these five agencies it is pretty obvious that the quote above is absurd and whoever wrote it is completely out of touch with what is really going on in the Deep State - which this article is really all about.
Almost always the people put in charge of agencies such as the five listed above are facilitators or enablers of the actions of their minions which are contrary to existing Federal laws, rules or regulations or are unconstitutional. And contrary to what the author maintains, the leaders of these agencies are directly appointed by the President and can be "fired" at any time. The problem is that past presidents have not had the balls to make the leadership changes needed to bring these rogue agencies back in line with existing law, or the people's interests.
I have long had the solution to this problem. Let government employees KEEP all of the money they fail to spend at the end of the year - provided they continue their mission. Taxpayers would go wild after two years of the massive windfall to the employees who would cut like crazy.
>>>>>A President Trump may be able to make small changes here or there, “But the setting of the bureau’s activities is determined by rules and regulations which are beyond his reach.”
Presidents come and go, but the unelected bureaucracy always remains. For all his simpleton bluster, even the mighty Trump is no match for the leviathan.
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That there is a complete load of bullshit. A president hires the heads of all these agencies and can fire them as well. While a president cannot write or rewrite laws, he sure as hell can regulations.
The author is a deceitful asshole. I bet I can find articles where he lamented Obama's overreach via various regulations.
You cannot have one without the other. If one president can create mountains of red tape via regulations then another can just as easily get rid of them.
I am not even arguing whether Trump would do so. I am arguing that he may do so.
...another fucking hit piece by a dishonest and shallow thinking asshole.
I totally agree!!