Ambassadorships are, in large part, patronage jobs.
Ambassadorships are political appointees.
Another example would be the VA. It's the Armed Forces HR. It made sense in 1946 when 13+ million people (out of a population of less than 150 million) were being discharged. It doesn't make sense today.
Get rid of it.
What about the Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and the few remaining WW2 vets who need specialized medical treatments? Civilian doctors don't have the security clearances to look up military records on specific injuries.
Another one is the Postmaster General. This made sense in 1788. It doesn't make sense today.
A federal agency that could make a profit if the Republicans haven't required that the USPS pre-fund 75 years of retirement benefits. No other retirement system in the country has that requirement.
I liked Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposal to restore basic banking services at the post office. My mother had a savings account with the postal service when I was a kid. Since I pick up mail from a PO box, I could also do my banking there.
I don't want to hand you a set of balls and see what you do then.
I keep mine in my pants. I wear boxers so they can hang nice and loose.
You seem to be using a slightly different definition of juggling than the article is, and the detail that interests me is that it doesn't occur to you to figure out how they are using it before making your pronouncement.
It's time for this patronage BS position (The Department of Education ) to go.
The U.S. government no longer has a patronage system. That got replaced by the civil service system in 1871. Out of less than ~3M government positions, POTUS appoints only ~4,000 positions.
By the way the Board of Ed was formed under Carter.
The Department of Education (1980-present) was the consolidation of two earlier agencies, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and Office of Education (1867-1972). Free public education didn't become a reality until after the Civil War. Only half the states had education systems at that time.
To set national priorities. Would the US have won the Space Race if science wasn't made a national priority in the classrooms after the launch of Sputnik?
I hope she pares down, if not eliminates the cabinet position.
Don't count on it. No one willingly gives up power and put themselves out of the job.
I was a neverTrump and this made me cautiously optimistic.
As a moderate conservative, I've never supported the Tea Party or Trump. After 20 years of being a Republican, I switched to my registration because I got sick and tired of being called a RINO by ignorant people.
Now if only we can get rid of the Dept of Veteran's Affairs (useful in 1946 when 15 million people were being discharged from the armed forces). It's not useful now.
The current VA was founded in 1930 to consolidate three agencies into one department. I guess you don't know many vets from the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
BTW, Trump appointed the number two guy at the VA as VA Secretary, who is against privatizing the VA and recently confirmed 100 to 0 by the Senate.
The surge in the markets since has been because of that, nothing else.
If Hillary had won, everyone expected a low growth, low inflation economy. Since Trump won everyone on Wall Street is expecting a high growth, high inflation economy. Except the underlying economic data doesn't support a high growth, high inflation economy. With the economy overdue for a recession, and the stock market flooded with excessive cash, the crash will hit pretty hard. I'm looking forward to buying stocks on the way down.
We'll see so far there are no scandals. NSA lied to Pence and Trump. He's out. Controversies? Define controversy? Something the opposition disagrees with? You mean like Obamacare? Or invading Iraq?
Are you blind or willfully ignorant?
So far nothing of note. There may be. There not.
That sums up Trump's first three weeks in the White House despite issuing 45 executive orders and presidential memos.
I had a personal library of 800 books by the time I turned 18. When I went off to college and moved into a five bedroom frat with 12 other guys, my roommates were horrified that I had 36 boxes on books in the basement. Took me six months to sell all but a dozen books to the used bookstore down the street. Since then my personal library has ballooned twice to 400 books. Something happens that causes me to scale back to a dozen books. I probably have 50 books now. That will get trimmed down before I move again in the near future. These days I own more ebooks than books.
Yet the Republicans are planning to use the budget reconciliation procedure to pass the ObamaCare repeal on a simple majority vote, using the exact same procedure that the Democrats used to pass ObamaCare that they themselves derided. That's hypocrisy of the highest order.
I replied to your description of corrupt politicians as it fit Trump perfectly. All he cares about is himself. You can't get any more corrupt than that.
And yet, the replacement eastern span of the Bay Bridge was built. And the second Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built. And...
The span of the Golden Gate Bridge is 4,200 feet long. The span for the Eastern Bay Bridge is 1263 feet long. The span for Tacoma Narrows Bridge is 2800 feet long. Neither the Eastern Bay Bridge nor the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is comparable to the Golden Gate Bridge. The most recent competitor to the Golden Gate Bridge is the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan with a 3,800 feet long span and built in 1957. Bridges with longer spans built in recent years are outside of the US.
I doubt they would have given him the airtime if they thought it was helping him or the Republicans in general.
I doubt that. Trump has no ethics. He is surrounded by people who are ethically challenged.. And the Republicans in Congress are providing no oversight on the administration. Expect more controversies, scandals and indictments than the Nixon and Reagan administrations combined. For the news media, this is better than having a Clinton in the White House. After the election, The Washington Post announced they were hiring 60 investigative reporters.
It covered the period from 1994 to 2001, when anyone remotely qualified could get a tech job, and companies were desperate to hire.
I worked for a video game company that went on a buying spree in the run up to the dot com bust. After the banks stopped financing the mergers and the company started selling acquisitions to pay off accumulated debts, upper management figured out that they overpaid each acquisition by two to four times the actual value. Fun times.
NYTimes called it the Clinton Recovery before he even took office:
Just like how Trump not only got a $2B+ in free advertising from the news media during the election but he is also being credit with the stock market surge after the election despite not having done anything at all.
Most dams in the US were built in the 20-30s and had an engineered life span of 50-100 years.
Most modern roadways are good for 200 years, if properly maintained. Unfortunately, there's nothing new or shiny about maintaining old infrastructure. As my late father liked to say, the Golden Gate bridge could never be built today.
Remember Obama had a Democratic House and Senate from 2008-1010.
The 111th Congress was from 2009 through 2010 with 59 Democrats and 42 Republicans. However, with the Republicans in full obstruction mode, most legislation required 60 votes. So the Democrats had to negotiate with the Republicans to get the stimulus bill passed, agreeing to a smaller dollar amount when it should have been two to three times larger. The bill passed the Senate with 61 to 36 votes.
On a related note, the 115th Congress today has 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats. Assuming that the Republicans don't eliminate the filibuster, and Democrats are in full obstruction mode, the Senate Republicans will have to negotiate with the Democrats to get any legislation passed with 60 votes. If Trump wants any of his policies passed in Congress, he will need to play nice with the Democrats just as Obama had to play nice with the Republicans. What goes around comes around.
Nations that spent more on stimulus had slower recoveries.
Spending cuts in Europe extended the Great Recession there. That almost happened in the U.S. despite repeated attempts by Republicans to sabotage the economy. Things would have turned out quite differently if the Republicans put the country first and cooperated with Obama.
The point is that gov't spending is not necessarily the answer to all our problems. In fact -- it can be the cause of future problems.
We needed infrastructure spending eight year ago after the economy cratered. Republicans gave Obama the bum rush. Now Trump is proposing $1T in infrastructure projects and $20B for THE WALL at a time when the economy doesn't need government intervention. The same Republican leadership will probably rubberstamp his executive orders without a second thought about the national debt.
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God forbid anyone make a fucking typo on twitter right?
Spellcheckers exist for a reason. If you're releasing information to the public, it should be error free.
Fuck off you petty little bitch
Ignorance is not a virtue.
*no wrong... unlike we mere mortals who make typos
Don't worry. Perfect spelling is no longer a requirement at the Department of Education.
http://wqad.com/2017/02/12/education-department-misspells-tweet-corrects-error-with-another-typo/
What is an "IT Decision Maker?"
The guy from Geek Squad who got hired to run the entire IT department by himself.
Ambassadorships are, in large part, patronage jobs.
Ambassadorships are political appointees.
Another example would be the VA. It's the Armed Forces HR. It made sense in 1946 when 13+ million people (out of a population of less than 150 million) were being discharged. It doesn't make sense today. Get rid of it.
What about the Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and the few remaining WW2 vets who need specialized medical treatments? Civilian doctors don't have the security clearances to look up military records on specific injuries.
Another one is the Postmaster General. This made sense in 1788. It doesn't make sense today.
A federal agency that could make a profit if the Republicans haven't required that the USPS pre-fund 75 years of retirement benefits. No other retirement system in the country has that requirement.
I liked Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposal to restore basic banking services at the post office. My mother had a savings account with the postal service when I was a kid. Since I pick up mail from a PO box, I could also do my banking there.
I don't want to hand you a set of balls and see what you do then.
I keep mine in my pants. I wear boxers so they can hang nice and loose.
You seem to be using a slightly different definition of juggling than the article is, and the detail that interests me is that it doesn't occur to you to figure out how they are using it before making your pronouncement.
WOOOSH!
It's time for this patronage BS position (The Department of Education ) to go.
The U.S. government no longer has a patronage system. That got replaced by the civil service system in 1871. Out of less than ~3M government positions, POTUS appoints only ~4,000 positions.
By the way the Board of Ed was formed under Carter.
The Department of Education (1980-present) was the consolidation of two earlier agencies, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and Office of Education (1867-1972). Free public education didn't become a reality until after the Civil War. Only half the states had education systems at that time.
Also, what that the company in the article is doing is hardly any news.
Fuzzy logic never goes out of style.
Out of interest is there somewhere that a long span bridge should be built?
The Bridge to Nowhere was supposed to be longer than the Golden Gate Bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
I expect an AI to learn how to calculate probabilities precisely. Juggling the numbers is what you do with a checkbook register.
I'm willfully ignorant.
Than you're part of the problem.
Why would anyone want the Dept of Ed?
To set national priorities. Would the US have won the Space Race if science wasn't made a national priority in the classrooms after the launch of Sputnik?
I hope she pares down, if not eliminates the cabinet position.
Don't count on it. No one willingly gives up power and put themselves out of the job.
I was a neverTrump and this made me cautiously optimistic.
As a moderate conservative, I've never supported the Tea Party or Trump. After 20 years of being a Republican, I switched to my registration because I got sick and tired of being called a RINO by ignorant people.
Now if only we can get rid of the Dept of Veteran's Affairs (useful in 1946 when 15 million people were being discharged from the armed forces). It's not useful now.
The current VA was founded in 1930 to consolidate three agencies into one department. I guess you don't know many vets from the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
BTW, Trump appointed the number two guy at the VA as VA Secretary, who is against privatizing the VA and recently confirmed 100 to 0 by the Senate.
The surge in the markets since has been because of that, nothing else.
If Hillary had won, everyone expected a low growth, low inflation economy. Since Trump won everyone on Wall Street is expecting a high growth, high inflation economy. Except the underlying economic data doesn't support a high growth, high inflation economy. With the economy overdue for a recession, and the stock market flooded with excessive cash, the crash will hit pretty hard. I'm looking forward to buying stocks on the way down.
We'll see so far there are no scandals. NSA lied to Pence and Trump. He's out. Controversies? Define controversy? Something the opposition disagrees with? You mean like Obamacare? Or invading Iraq?
Are you blind or willfully ignorant?
So far nothing of note. There may be. There not.
That sums up Trump's first three weeks in the White House despite issuing 45 executive orders and presidential memos.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/president-trump-has-done-almost-nothing-214775
Part of that might be in your childhood too.
I had a personal library of 800 books by the time I turned 18. When I went off to college and moved into a five bedroom frat with 12 other guys, my roommates were horrified that I had 36 boxes on books in the basement. Took me six months to sell all but a dozen books to the used bookstore down the street. Since then my personal library has ballooned twice to 400 books. Something happens that causes me to scale back to a dozen books. I probably have 50 books now. That will get trimmed down before I move again in the near future. These days I own more ebooks than books.
Yes, of course, for things such as ObamaCare.
Yet the Republicans are planning to use the budget reconciliation procedure to pass the ObamaCare repeal on a simple majority vote, using the exact same procedure that the Democrats used to pass ObamaCare that they themselves derided. That's hypocrisy of the highest order.
Something has to be funny for it to be humorous.
I replied to your description of corrupt politicians as it fit Trump perfectly. All he cares about is himself. You can't get any more corrupt than that.
You failed on both accounts if that was the case.
Now that's funny!
And yet, the replacement eastern span of the Bay Bridge was built. And the second Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built. And ...
The span of the Golden Gate Bridge is 4,200 feet long. The span for the Eastern Bay Bridge is 1263 feet long. The span for Tacoma Narrows Bridge is 2800 feet long. Neither the Eastern Bay Bridge nor the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is comparable to the Golden Gate Bridge. The most recent competitor to the Golden Gate Bridge is the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan with a 3,800 feet long span and built in 1957. Bridges with longer spans built in recent years are outside of the US.
I doubt they would have given him the airtime if they thought it was helping him or the Republicans in general.
I doubt that. Trump has no ethics. He is surrounded by people who are ethically challenged.. And the Republicans in Congress are providing no oversight on the administration. Expect more controversies, scandals and indictments than the Nixon and Reagan administrations combined. For the news media, this is better than having a Clinton in the White House. After the election, The Washington Post announced they were hiring 60 investigative reporters.
It covered the period from 1994 to 2001, when anyone remotely qualified could get a tech job, and companies were desperate to hire.
I worked for a video game company that went on a buying spree in the run up to the dot com bust. After the banks stopped financing the mergers and the company started selling acquisitions to pay off accumulated debts, upper management figured out that they overpaid each acquisition by two to four times the actual value. Fun times.
NYTimes called it the Clinton Recovery before he even took office:
Just like how Trump not only got a $2B+ in free advertising from the news media during the election but he is also being credit with the stock market surge after the election despite not having done anything at all.
Most dams in the US were built in the 20-30s and had an engineered life span of 50-100 years.
Most modern roadways are good for 200 years, if properly maintained. Unfortunately, there's nothing new or shiny about maintaining old infrastructure. As my late father liked to say, the Golden Gate bridge could never be built today.
If you think this has something to do with Trump, you're just a partisan hack.
You, sir, lack a sense of humor.
Remember Obama had a Democratic House and Senate from 2008-1010.
The 111th Congress was from 2009 through 2010 with 59 Democrats and 42 Republicans. However, with the Republicans in full obstruction mode, most legislation required 60 votes. So the Democrats had to negotiate with the Republicans to get the stimulus bill passed, agreeing to a smaller dollar amount when it should have been two to three times larger. The bill passed the Senate with 61 to 36 votes.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29106540/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/economic-stimulus-bill-passes-senate-hurdle/
On a related note, the 115th Congress today has 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats. Assuming that the Republicans don't eliminate the filibuster, and Democrats are in full obstruction mode, the Senate Republicans will have to negotiate with the Democrats to get any legislation passed with 60 votes. If Trump wants any of his policies passed in Congress, he will need to play nice with the Democrats just as Obama had to play nice with the Republicans. What goes around comes around.
Bullshit.
The Europe Union had a policy of austerity that reduced expenses.
The EU spent _more_ on stimulus than the USA. Much much more, if you include all the money flushed down Greece.
Never mind that all the money that went into Greece repaid the bonds and loans held by the European Union.
Nations that spent more on stimulus had slower recoveries.
Spending cuts in Europe extended the Great Recession there. That almost happened in the U.S. despite repeated attempts by Republicans to sabotage the economy. Things would have turned out quite differently if the Republicans put the country first and cooperated with Obama.
The point is that gov't spending is not necessarily the answer to all our problems. In fact -- it can be the cause of future problems.
We needed infrastructure spending eight year ago after the economy cratered. Republicans gave Obama the bum rush. Now Trump is proposing $1T in infrastructure projects and $20B for THE WALL at a time when the economy doesn't need government intervention. The same Republican leadership will probably rubberstamp his executive orders without a second thought about the national debt.