Yeah that's how many people use the word equity. And lots of people have issue with that. Which is why subbing in the word fairness works better in a report that covers the benefits to, say, building a structure to provide shade at a public playground in a low-income neighborhood that otherwise has no shade. And that's what people who may or may not author those reports may or may not do, as just one example for how words have to be changed or massaged so that those who are delicate to certain words won't immediately reject those recommendations in such reports.
Isn't that kind of the concept of Heaven No matter what . . .we all act right . .. we get to the same place Rocket River
Here’s the great thing for these guys. At that point they just get to yell and scream that Democrats are at fault. If that doesn’t take in right wing media then they then have a backup plan to blame George Soros and the Rothschild’s cabal for creating weather modification to destroy Trumps America. If that doesn’t work just lie and say it’s not actually happening. Things like governing and grifting are just so much easier when your electorate is a bunch of mindless idiots who trust Trump more than they trust math and science.
I understood that that's what you do, but what do you mean? What do you consider "fair"? Equality or equity (in the sense Kamala uses it)?
Me, professionally? Just trying to help people live a more active and healthy life. If I have to use or avoid certain buzzwords to accomplish that then so be it. There is no deeper, secretive meaning. Me, personally? I want the same thing. And I think it's stupid that we have to do all these gymnastics to get something like that accomplished. (Btw, the example I gave doesn't exactly make sense in the topic here, but I didn't want to talk about anything that I, or someone I may or may not know, may or may not actually have any connection to.) Or are you asking what do I personally think about DEI? I think it's partly heartfelt and partly a grift. I'm not educated enough on the topic to know what percent is heartfelt and what percent is grift. But I think it's most problematic when corporations use it to shield themselves from otherwise deserved criticism, because in that case it is purely a scam. If Raytheon had an underqualified recently-promoted obese, purple-haired, asexual, 2-spirit, trans furry be the project manager on a new initiative to more efficiently get bombs to blow up women and children in Lebanon, I don't think that should be a yass queen moment.
Nope. You have to worship the right God and admit you are powerless without him and only he can save you. According to Christians (In theology and politics)
The Republicans are finally better that the Democrats at technology......... it took the venture capitalists and tech guys getting old enough and self important enough, but they are light years ahead of the Democrats at this point. As for next hurricane season - there will be tweets and memes for that too.
They will get rid of both good and bad regulations.... and their definition of "good" will be extreme. They will go too far - any group with what they view as a mandate will - and the voters will slap them... Rinse and Repeat ---- just hopefully Brain Worm and the South African don't go too far.
Ex-leader of Bureau of Reclamation calls for Trump administration to eliminate it https://thehill.com/policy/energy-e...eard-advocates-abolishing-bureau-reclamation/ excerpt: A progressive civil servant who led the Bureau of Reclamation under former President Clinton is now urging the incoming Trump administration to eliminate his former agency — an entity he has long deemed superfluous. Daniel Beard, who served as commissioner from 1993-95, said in a statement shared with The Hill that if the “administration is serious about reducing government bureaucracy, cutting wasteful expenditures and restructuring federal agencies, it should start by abolishing the Bureau of Reclamation.” Beard argued Congress only maintains the Bureau of Reclamation for political reasons, stressing that the agency’s every function could be overseen by the private sector or other federal, state, regional or local entities. Beard has long advocated for the elimination of the federal agency he once presided over — publishing a book in 2015 titled “Deadbeat Dams: Why We Need to Abolish the Bureau of Reclamation and Tear Down Glen Canyon Dam.” But after the incoming Trump administration announced the forthcoming establishment of a “Department of Government Efficiency,” Beard is calling for the new entity to start its work with Reclamation. The bureau, founded in 1902, was established to construct large dams and canals while supporting settlement across the U.S. West via water and electricity distribution, Beard wrote. “These were essential functions over a century ago,” he stated. “Today, however, there is no need for a federal agency with a budget exceeding $1.5 billion to fulfill these tasks.” more at the link
Next cat 5 hurricanes will hit NYC, LA, and SF. Florida will never experience a hurricane again, so hopefully insurance rates can finally drop. Thank you DOGE!
link should work for everyone https://www.wsj.com/opinion/departm...b?st=7z7av2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink The Musk-Ramaswamy Project Could Be Trump’s Best Idea Skeptics sneer, but the duo are serious about shrinking government. By The Editorial Board Nov. 15, 2024 at 5:40 pm ET Lost amid Donald Trump’s nomination blitz this week was what might turn out to be his best idea: He has handed Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk the job of running a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to reform and shrink the federal government. This has been tried before, not least by businessmen appalled by government waste and delay. But Mr. Trump and the two entrepreneurs seem to be serious. They’re promising a reform “Manhattan Project,” after the effort that produced the atomic bomb. They may need at least a neutron bomb to do the job. The DOGE will be a non-government operation working with allies inside the White House. The policy “vector,” as one source puts it, will be the regulatory shop in the Office of Management and Budget. The goal is the rapid repeal of regulations and a “massive” reduction in the size of the federal bureaucracy, with or without the help of Congress. The duo are convinced they have enough legal authority to pull this off in the executive branch. The legal theory of the case is that the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPAand Loper Bright rulings reining in the administrative state mean that much of what the federal government now does is illegal. Mr. Trump has set a laudable goal of eliminating 10 regulations for every new one, and there is no shortage of targets. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews says 217,565 rules have been issued since the Federal Register first began itemizing them in 1976, with 89,368 pages added last year. DOGE’s first order will be to pause enforcement of overreaching rules while starting the process to roll them back. Mr. Trump and DOGE could direct agencies to settle legal challenges to Biden rules by vacating them. This could ease the laborious process of undoing them by rule-making through the Administrative Procedure Act. A source tells us they’ll do whatever they think they legally can without the APA. The DOGE duo believe this will provide the legal justification for reducing the federal workforce. As we recently noted, the federal head count has ballooned by 120,800 during the Biden years. Civil service and union protections make it hard to fire workers. But Mr. Trump will quickly resurrect the Schedule F reform that he sought to implement at the end of his first term but was scrapped by Mr. Biden. These would eliminate job protections for high-level federal employees so they can be removed like political appointees. DOGE could also streamline permitting with “categorical exclusions” from environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act. The Biden Administration provided such exclusions for green-energy projects. Trump appointees could do so for more projects that are likely to have minimal environmental impact like oil and gas pipelines in developed rights-of-way. The DOGErs also promise to attack redundant, unnecessary and ineffective programs. Take the plethora of government work-training programs and funding for medical research that the private industry is already doing. Some but not all of this might require legislation. Mr. Musk says he wants to slash $2 trillion from a $6.5 trillion budget, which is fanciful without touching Social Security and Medicare, which Mr. Trump won’t do. But there are other ripe targets, such as fraud in Affordable Care Act subsidies. The Paragon Health Institute estimates such fraud at $15 billion to $20 billion this year. Agencies could also move to fixed-price contracts so taxpayers aren’t on the hook for contractor cost overruns. The Health and Human Services Department could bar states from exploiting a Medicaid loophole to squeeze more money out of Washington to balance their budgets. HHS could let states impose work requirements on able-bodied, working-age Medicaid enrollees, and bar states from using Medicaid funds for other social spending. The Trump team could also roll back the Biden climate and wage mandates on federal contractors, which make it harder for smaller companies to compete. *** None of this will be easy. Lawsuits will proliferate. Mr. Trump’s own cabinet officers will resist cuts in their budget and regulatory sway. The iron triangle of the bureaucracy, interest groups and Congress will conspire to portray every decision as a threat to public health and safety. The press will pile on. But the attempt to tame and shrink Leviathan is worth the toil, and it’s essential to liberating Americans from the tyranny of the expanding administrative state. Appeared in the November 16, 2024, print edition as 'The Musk-Ramaswamy Project'.
You cannot cut 75% of the Federal workforce. The government cannot function. Also, the Federal government is the biggest employer of Veterans. Putting them out of work is not going to look good.
If you want to weaken the US, what would you do? 1. Put an anti-VAXer with quack ideas in charge of health 2. Slash the federal gov't and sell off consumer protections to the highest bidder 3. Put a pro-Russian in charge of intelligence 4. Destroy the DOJ 5. Lower military moral and turn it's focus inward versus global threat
Washington reporters if you are reading this. If you want to get Elon out of this administration, ask about how great of a genius Musk is with every other question.
