Jonathan Pie explains it

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Politics isn't a religion. It is an interest.

And something I like about Trump and other Republicans (particularly the less-insider sorts, DJT being a madly and greedily resented outsider and outside force that is just what the free republic needs after generations of the opposite) is how they on occasion think like libertarians. There has been for four generations a cry for running the government in a businesslike fashion. Trump has answered that cry at long last. Four more years will answer the cry even better. Plus sequelae -- really putting the end to the era of big government, that we all may be the wealthier, breathe the freer, and make our sexual desirability the greater. Makes America the greater too, hmm? See, my eyes are open -- and there are those who are so philosophically bankrupt that they have run out of substantive rebuttals, have exhausted their antifreedom arguments and sallies, and ad-hominemwise tell me I'm "pompous" for being open-eyed. This is a dimbulb's attempt at saving face, and it is contemptible. When you can't, simply can't, brighten the free republic, you're a mess.

[Luce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

There has been for four generations a cry for running the government in a businesslike fashion.

Likewise, and equally valid, is the urge to have plumbers conduct brain surgery.

Category errors are a thing.

[xoxoxoBruce]

He's right, look at all the successful businesses running a trillion dollar deficit.

[tw]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

He's right, look at all the successful businesses running a trillion dollar deficit.

What has been keeping GE alive for many decades? A massive deficit (directly traceable to management that used cost controls to stifle innovation) has been masked by selling off division after division. As if selling assets is acceptable profit (only business school graduates promote that lie).

Previously posted were other GE assets sold to mask massive losses. Add to that list latest sales of their biopharmaceutical division to Danaher Corp and their aircraft leasing division to Apollo (an investment retirement fund). Then a massive deficit, that has existed for decades, again is not obvious to stock brokers and other bean counters. America is selling off to mask losses created by business school (bean counter) graduates who routinely stifle innovation. Innovation being the only source of actual profits, growth, and jobs.

Examples of people, with a plumber's education, getting rich by selling off America. And so the expression "going down the drain".

Companies running massive deficits to mask unproductive management include Boeing and Lockheed-Martin. First indication starts with underfunded pension funds. Which has been using a 'tax cut inspired bubble' on the stock market to mask increasing financial losses.

Sears used sale of Kmart to play fast and loose with money games. Now on the list is Xerox trying to do same with HP. How curious. Those are the same games that Trump used. Including four Atlantic City casinos that never once earned a profit. But Trump is an honest man. So that must not be a concern.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Luce

Likewise, and equally valid, is the urge to have plumbers conduct brain surgery.

Category errors are a thing.

You've committed one, and were not forced into it.

The Trump administration's philosophy is what running government in a businesslike fashion looks like -- and whaddaya know; it worked. People who think this can't work, or for some reason shouldn't (I can't think of any) aren't thinking like libertarians. They ought to start.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

The Trump administration's philosophy is what running government in a businesslike fashion looks like -- and whaddaya know; it worked.

Yes it did work. He stiffs contractors - at least 3500. He defaulted on loans from every major bank. The mafia also calls that 'just business'. Amazing how only honest people see that reality. While corrupt people love the way he cheats and lies.

Also amazing how the most easily brainwashed resort to profanity to justify their misinformation.

[Luce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Politics isn't a religion. It is an interest.

It absolutely is a religion. Everyone gets to be irrational and accuse everyone else of being irrational.

That's what religion is.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Luce

It absolutely is a religion. Everyone gets to be irrational and accuse everyone else of being irrational.

You're going to fuck yourself up badly with that philosophy. Don't do it. I don't.

[Luce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

You're going to fuck yourself up badly with that philosophy. Don't do it. I don't.

Okay.