In a Nutshell, Here's Why We're All Fucked ... There Are No Experienced or Competent Adults In the Room!

... and we're stuck with this dismal and disastrous crew for another 2-1/2 years!


Biden interview question for Senior Cabinet Officials - "Have you ever met a payroll?"

Biden applicant answer - "What's a payroll? Can't you see I'm a woke community organizer/Social Justice Warrior with impeccable LGBTQX credentials?"

Biden reply - "You're hired!"


From the link:

"The report found that 62 percent of Biden appointees who deal directly with business matters - economic policy, regulation, commerce, energy and finance, have 'virtually no business experience.' Only one in 8 were found to have 'extensive' business experience and their average business experience was 2.4 years.

'These highest level people who are in charge of kind of keeping our economy on track of haven't got the experience to deal with, you know, the logistics of managing $22 trillion economy,' Moore told DailyMail.com in an interview.

'You have basically lawyers and university professors and community activists that don't have any experience with managing a big operation or steering the economy in the right direction.'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...xperience.html

In other words they don't know shit.

In other words they don't know shit. Originally Posted by Levianon17

They can't even define a woman! How can anyone expect them to manage a $22 trillion economy?

i would wish to expect them not to manage the economy

just get the F out of the way

i posted in another thread how incompetent the biden administration is

i think i referred to them as the ship of fools

i would wish to expect them not to manage the economy

just get the F out of the way Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

No can do. They were all hired to throw a wet blanket over the entire private economy!

thanks for fixing manage

i dont want them to mange it either

thanks for fixing manage

i don't want them to mange it either Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

But they can always mangle it!

marxists would have one grand party for themselves and the golden goose be shat on the morrow

Rumor has it that Ron Klain handed down a secret directive to all cabinet members ordering that from this date forward, successful individuals and thriving businesses shall be viewed in the same way that Mongol raiders viewed a prosperous city back in the 13th century -- as something to be sacked and plundered.

I yearn for the old days when we only had to be concerned with "regulatory capture".

Now the problem is regulatory overkill by woke clueless bureaucrats and climate change zealots who willfully ignore and defy SCOTUS checks on their authority!


Pete Buttigieg’s Climate Toll Road

An extraordinary new rule ignores what the Supreme Court just said about regulation.

By The Editorial Board
July 10, 2022 5:53 pm ET

To adapt what Stalin said of the Pope, how many divisions does the Supreme Court have? That seems to be the implicit slogan of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who on Thursday ignored the High Court’s recent ruling with a proposed rule requiring states to reduce CO2 emissions on highways—that is, banish gas-powered vehicles.

In West Virginia v. EPA, the Court ruled that regulatory agencies can’t impose costly new regulations without a clear direction from Congress. The feds had interpreted an obscure corner of the Clean Air Act to impose costly climate rules on power plants.

Now the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) wants to take this abuse of authority on the road. It cites an obscure provision in federal law that authorizes it to set national “performance” goals for the national highway system. The law defines these goals as safety, infrastructure condition, congestion reduction, system reliability, freight movement and economic vitality, environmental sustainability and reduced project delivery delays.

FHWA says this “environmental sustainability” language allows it to regulate CO2 emissions. Mr. Buttigieg needs a vocabulary lesson. Climate and environment are different even if the left conflates them.

While rising CO2 emissions over time affect the climate, these effects are global. Federal highway performance standards are intended to protect the local environment from traditional vehicle pollutants such as NOx or from highway construction. Brushing past this inconvenient distinction, FHWA declares that its “proposed GHG measure would help the United States confront the increasingly urgent climate crisis.”

The Biden Administration’s climate ends always justify its illegal regulatory means. FHWA claims that states will have flexibility in setting CO2 reduction targets but in the same breath declares they must align with the Administration’s goals to reduce emissions. In other words, states have flexibility as long as they do as the Administration tells them. If they don’t, they risk losing federal highway funding. This is coercive federalism.

It’s not even clear how states would comply with the rule. Unlike traditional vehicle pollutants, CO2 can’t be easily measured by air quality monitors. Are states supposed to ban gas-guzzlers and heavy-duty trucks from the road like vehicles that fail smog checks? Will they have to gauge truck tailpipe CO2 emissions at highway weigh stations?

Possibly. The proposed rule also says states will be required “to establish declining targets for reductions in tailpipe CO2 emissions” on the national highway system. This sounds like DOT conscripting states into regulating vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, which states are expressly barred from doing under federal law.

The Obama and Biden Environmental Protection Agency let California impose its own emissions standards and electric-vehicle mandate. Now progressives complain most EV sales are in California and coastal states that heavily subsidize them. The DOT rule appears intended to force other states to subsidize EVs or punish drivers of gas-powered cars.

Even progressives must doubt that Mr. Buttigieg has the power he’s claiming. As evidence, their Build Back Better bill gave the FHWA money to write a rule requiring “States to set performance targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” and “establish an incentive structure to reward States that demonstrate the most significant progress” and “consequences” for those that don’t.

Had the bill passed, Mr. Buttigieg would at least have an express Congressional authorization. Instead, he’s doing what the Court criticized as finding “‘in a long-extant statute an unheralded power’ representing a ‘transformative expansion’” in authority. The Court’s West Virginia decision sets guardrails to prevent regulators from driving off the constitutional road.

Mr. Buttigieg is running rough-shod over the Constitution’s separation of powers. But at least the Justices have now empowered lower courts to stop him, and let’s hope they do.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pete-bu...nt-11657310842

Biden’s Hiring Policy: No Business Experience Needed

Senior Administration officials have spent little time in the private economy.

By The Editorial Board
July 12, 2022 6:38 pm ET


A troubling trend in the Democratic Party in recent years is its increasing detachment from the private economy. That’s shown itself in the Biden Administration’s economic management, and one reason may be that few of its officials have experience in private business.

That’s the headline of a report to be released Wednesday by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, compiled by Stephen Moore and Jon Decker. The pair studied the résumés of 68 top executive-branch officials whose work shapes the economy—from President Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to White House special assistants on economic policy.

“Average business experience of Biden appointees is only 2.4 years,” the authors found. Any fresh-faced 25-year-old on Wall Street has clocked more private business hours than most of Washington’s top officials. Sixty-two percent have “virtually no business experience.” By contrast, the average Donald Trump cabinet official had 13 years of experience in the private economy, the authors say.

Some familiarity with business is especially important given that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have spent their lives in law or politics. But the authors found that Biden economic officialdom is dominated by careers in law (20), politics and government (21), and academia or policy-making (12). The main business experience is in venture capital or investing (five).

There are prominent exceptions. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was a successful venture capitalist before entering government, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ran operations at a New Mexico tribal casino.

Yet it’s fair to wonder if the Biden policies and their results reflect a lack of even a basic understanding of how business works. One example is the Labor Department’s quest to classify millions of contractors as employees, despite evidence that many workers prefer independent status.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has no experience in healthcare. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was a mayor and management consultant with little experience in supply chains or America’s vast transportation network. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo has spent nearly all of his career in politics and government.

Innocence of profits, payrolls and competition seems to count as a virtue among today’s progressives. But that isn’t a virtue when modern government has so much power to regulate and punish private business. Presidents are free to appoint whoever they wish, but the results of business ignorance in this Administration are speaking for themselves.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-busi...rt-11657661328

Yeah, we need someone like Hank Paulson, ex-CEO of Goldman Sachs to be Treasury Secretary - remember the great job he did? The Glorious prosperity of October 2008?

Or maybe like ol' Rex Tillerson CEO of Exxon, remember he did such a bang up job as Secretary of State that Trump let him retire early?

And of course Trumpy filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy for his companies six times.

So yeah, this Biden bunch is not who you want dealing with dollars.

In other words they don't know shit. Originally Posted by Levianon17

actually, they do.. their poop.

They can't even define a woman! How can anyone expect them to manage a $22 trillion economy? Originally Posted by lustylad

I bet they can define lil whiney bitches... I know I can!