Government has become so large that government employees now represent one of the largest voting blocs in the country. So we have tens of millions of people voting on government spending while drawing salaries and benefits from government work. It’s retarded.
People in my blue city who aren't even in government love to vote for spending. Any spending. Any spending you can possibly imagine. All except for one kind of spending: Funding audits. Those always get shot down because voters are programmed to believe they're unnecessary or a poor use of money.
It's worth noting that, of the increase in the money supply perpetuated on us by the government/Fed, I don't think most of it is "spending" as we know it. Most of that money they just created and gave directly to banks to loan. Deficit spending is inflationary, but it's not the only way to inflate.
With fiat money, it's all games. However, in theory the government gets something for spending. It comes from the same labor pool, driving up costs for the private sector, but they get some government thing for it. The other money the Fed creates goes into the private sector. Again, you can't create more labor with money, but you can create demand for labor that attracts immigrants.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was an increase in innovation with less of the pencil pushers in the way.
One of the most wildly productive periods of the American economy was Coolidge's time as President (1923-1929). His treatment of Federal government employees gets talked about today. He's been dead for almost a century, and he's still the boogeyman.
Here's the high points of what he did. Every government employee (from entry level to GS-15 and up) was issued one pen, one pencil, and one notepad. To get a replacement, you had to bring the used/broken one back or the replacement cost got deducted from your pay. Every department had a minimum 5-10% budget reduction every year, which only stopped when spot checks by auditors showed that your entire workforce was working and not slacking off. Hiring was returned to a blind merit-based system, and firing was returned to a demerits system.
The only part jettisoned is a flame shield. I don't know exactly what the analysis was but it's reasonable to assume it was about the whole test ship they were going to crash into the Indian Ocean. And did: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1847368836947071496
"Frankly if Starship hits a whale, that whale had it coming." - Elon Musk
I dunno if anyone watched "Narcos," but there's a scene where Escobar is an elected representative, and one of the other reps tells him off saying: "You are a criminal" (unlike me). And the point is that that other guy may never be arrested or shot like Pablo, but the Mexican ruling class is corrupt. Their graft is (effectively, if not nominally) legal. But they are parasites nonetheless. The difference is in who they know and maybe a certain distance from the violence carried out for them.
It's deliberate stalling. If they were a serious organization that wanted to get things done in a timely manner they would have started with a list all the required analysis and testing, acceptable data sets for said analysis, and not need this duplicated each application.
Government regulation for a lot of things these days exists to remove the ability of smaller companies to get bigger and potentially outdo the established companies.
Unlike the good old days where government regulation existed to remove the ability of smaller companies to get bigger and potentially outdo the established companies.
They say government regulations are written in blood. I say they are written by whiners. They are written by those with "there ought to be a law" syndrome. You know, something bad happens so a law is passed.
There is capture, but the citizenry also play a role by being reactionary and rewarding politicians who "do something." The plural of that is burdensome regulation. Government cannot correctly make those tradeoffs on behalf of distant workers.
They see trump as evil. Trump might as well fire 50% of the government since optics wise, hes gonna be seen as evil no matter what.
Trump can even make it look good. Fire 50%. Take the salaries of the ones that got fired, give 10% raise to all employees that didnt get fired and rest goes back to the treasury. Done and done.
I'm reminded painfully of my mom's understanding of how installing things on a computer works. What if the computer disk gets unbalanced because you put too much data on it? It will use up more electricity because it's heavier now! Using all that internet is gonna wear out the wires, then we'll have to pay for new ones!
The vaccine rollout where the FDA effectively stopped doing any semblance of review of safety and efficacy and pushed an approval of a novel therapeutic injection through in less than a year.
I think Elon is someone who wants to do good work that he can take pride in who would continue to do good work if the FAA didn't exist at all. But there are also a lot of people who just want to push slop through the process to make a quick buck. Unfortunately the regulatory system we have treats people like Elon the same as the people who just want to push slop.
But if you get rid of it so people like Elon can be unleashed, that doesn't mean there doesn't still need to be a way to discourage the people who want to push slop from hurting people with their slop and punish them when they do.
Unfortunately the only political options we are presented with are egalitarian solutions: the Reps want to unleash everyone like Elon should be unleashed, and the Dems want to put everyone on the same sort of leash as should be put on a slop-pusher.
Not being an egalitarian, I think we should use judgment as to whether someone should be on a leash or not.
Government has become so large that government employees now represent one of the largest voting blocs in the country. So we have tens of millions of people voting on government spending while drawing salaries and benefits from government work. It’s retarded.
People who draw a .gov paycheck shouldn't be allowed to vote.
People in my blue city who aren't even in government love to vote for spending. Any spending. Any spending you can possibly imagine. All except for one kind of spending: Funding audits. Those always get shot down because voters are programmed to believe they're unnecessary or a poor use of money.
It's worth noting that, of the increase in the money supply perpetuated on us by the government/Fed, I don't think most of it is "spending" as we know it. Most of that money they just created and gave directly to banks to loan. Deficit spending is inflationary, but it's not the only way to inflate.
With fiat money, it's all games. However, in theory the government gets something for spending. It comes from the same labor pool, driving up costs for the private sector, but they get some government thing for it. The other money the Fed creates goes into the private sector. Again, you can't create more labor with money, but you can create demand for labor that attracts immigrants.
Or I do I have that wrong?
When Trump takes over, we need Elon or someone like this in charge of the government budget and employment numbers.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was an increase in innovation with less of the pencil pushers in the way.
One of the most wildly productive periods of the American economy was Coolidge's time as President (1923-1929). His treatment of Federal government employees gets talked about today. He's been dead for almost a century, and he's still the boogeyman.
Here's the high points of what he did. Every government employee (from entry level to GS-15 and up) was issued one pen, one pencil, and one notepad. To get a replacement, you had to bring the used/broken one back or the replacement cost got deducted from your pay. Every department had a minimum 5-10% budget reduction every year, which only stopped when spot checks by auditors showed that your entire workforce was working and not slacking off. Hiring was returned to a blind merit-based system, and firing was returned to a demerits system.
I never realized what Hillary had against him in 2016 when she kept bringing up "CALVIN COOLIDGE" but I knew he must have done something right.
Doing the exact opposite of everything leftists say is a guaranteed path to success in life
Trump said he'd put Elon in charge of cutting government staffing and Elon said he'd do it for free.
I will laugh so hard if he actually fires 80% of government employees and quality will improve like in Twitter.
Not only would the government improve, the economy would fucking explode with wealth.
It might be the only way to recover our economy at this point.
But what kind of damage are all those retards going to do now that they're not in daycare? Try to get their fix by setting up new bureaucracy locally?
Stop, I can only get so erect.
That video disappeared fast.
Good thing we're a constitutional republic, then. Well, on paper anyways.
to play devil’s advocate, is this not talking about the parts of the rocket that get jettisoned after launch?
The only part jettisoned is a flame shield. I don't know exactly what the analysis was but it's reasonable to assume it was about the whole test ship they were going to crash into the Indian Ocean. And did: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1847368836947071496
"Frankly if Starship hits a whale, that whale had it coming." - Elon Musk
Most of the federal government belongs in gitmo
I dunno if anyone watched "Narcos," but there's a scene where Escobar is an elected representative, and one of the other reps tells him off saying: "You are a criminal" (unlike me). And the point is that that other guy may never be arrested or shot like Pablo, but the Mexican ruling class is corrupt. Their graft is (effectively, if not nominally) legal. But they are parasites nonetheless. The difference is in who they know and maybe a certain distance from the violence carried out for them.
It's deliberate stalling. If they were a serious organization that wanted to get things done in a timely manner they would have started with a list all the required analysis and testing, acceptable data sets for said analysis, and not need this duplicated each application.
AFUERA
Government regulation for a lot of things these days exists to remove the ability of smaller companies to get bigger and potentially outdo the established companies.
Unlike the good old days where government regulation existed to remove the ability of smaller companies to get bigger and potentially outdo the established companies.
They say government regulations are written in blood. I say they are written by whiners. They are written by those with "there ought to be a law" syndrome. You know, something bad happens so a law is passed.
There is capture, but the citizenry also play a role by being reactionary and rewarding politicians who "do something." The plural of that is burdensome regulation. Government cannot correctly make those tradeoffs on behalf of distant workers.
They see trump as evil. Trump might as well fire 50% of the government since optics wise, hes gonna be seen as evil no matter what.
Trump can even make it look good. Fire 50%. Take the salaries of the ones that got fired, give 10% raise to all employees that didnt get fired and rest goes back to the treasury. Done and done.
I'm reminded painfully of my mom's understanding of how installing things on a computer works. What if the computer disk gets unbalanced because you put too much data on it? It will use up more electricity because it's heavier now! Using all that internet is gonna wear out the wires, then we'll have to pay for new ones!
Fuck you dolphin, and fuck you, whale.
If Elon coughs once, it' the equivalent of a belly laugh from a normie.
Agreed but if you get rid of regulations you need to replace them with something that actually punishes people and organizations who cause harm.
If you don't do that then you get the 2020 vaccine rollout.
The vaccine rollout that was enforced by OSHA?
The vaccine rollout where the FDA effectively stopped doing any semblance of review of safety and efficacy and pushed an approval of a novel therapeutic injection through in less than a year.
I think Elon is someone who wants to do good work that he can take pride in who would continue to do good work if the FAA didn't exist at all. But there are also a lot of people who just want to push slop through the process to make a quick buck. Unfortunately the regulatory system we have treats people like Elon the same as the people who just want to push slop.
But if you get rid of it so people like Elon can be unleashed, that doesn't mean there doesn't still need to be a way to discourage the people who want to push slop from hurting people with their slop and punish them when they do.
Unfortunately the only political options we are presented with are egalitarian solutions: the Reps want to unleash everyone like Elon should be unleashed, and the Dems want to put everyone on the same sort of leash as should be put on a slop-pusher.
Not being an egalitarian, I think we should use judgment as to whether someone should be on a leash or not.