04-08-2025, 01:54 PM
(04-08-2025, 01:17 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: ...
Anyway Trump certainly is breaking Presidental norms, in that he often lets the mask slip, in a way that many Democrats find incredibly vulgar. The same tendency also thrills much of his base who are sick of what they see as the obvious kayfabe of the left, so much so that they ignore or don't think too much about where his policies lead and what they represent.
Anyway you can see this "push too far then incorporate the pushback" philosophy, for example, in what Musk did at Twitter. It seems to be effective, even if you don't agree with the direct it goes.
I mean, does the Social Security Administration really need 57 thousand employees? It did at one time, but does it still today?
Here's the other reality that ANY and ALL administrations must face.
With diminishing birthrates making their debut (even on a planetary scale) and with our government being too big (read powerful) as it was...Â
an imbalance is forthcoming.Â
Those politically-fixated cannot be the arbiters here... population cycles are not political,
their entrenchment most often breeds decay, the more "successful" they are, the deeper the rot.
Each of those 57,000 employees did not 'create this circumstance'...
I wonder how much they will have to sacrifice for "politically-appointed" leadership?
Imagine if they were unionized?Â
Think that's in some backroom being bandied about... how to "pull that off?"