So first Jared was Mideast Peace Czar, now he’s Government Efficiency Czar. Where are the wingnuts screeching about unaccountable, unelected czars as they did with Obama?
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He only trusts his family. Which is why he could never run a successful large corporation let alone a country.
Maybe he will bring back George and Caroline to the Board room oval office.
They do not know shit about management.
At this point I would give anything for Romney to lead a hostile takeover. I am sure Icahn will bankroll it.
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Is he going to do all this between trips to Russia and Aspen?
You forgot: fixing that little problem with Israel and Palestine. Donald is lucky having such a gifted son-in-law…
( From his Wikipedia entry, it appers he has not much experience working outside his father’s or father-in-law’s shadow, so maybe the little whippersnapper is in for a surprise ?)
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We’ve been hearing this “run government like a business” line forever. It’s nothing new, folks.
Most of the easy reforms have already been done, decades ago. But in the final analysis you will always run up against the simple fact that the goal of business is to make a profit and the goal of government is to serve the public interest. Two very different metrics.
What we’ll probably wind up with is more outsourcing, which does not reduce costs but merely injects profit motive rather than the public interest into governmental actions.
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He is being groomed to be Raymond Shaw
And that type of talk came from business consultants who were of the belief that govt should be run like a business.
Because “running the government like a business” has always worked out so well in the past. More thievery and crooked deals. This Administration is looking more and more like a Mafia family.
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I’ve seen a lot of money and effort wasted by people who thought it was easy to import private sector practices into government, without understanding that private and public sector organizations are fundamentally different.
A good deal of the waste and inefficiency in federal agencies is directly due to congress. Congress likes to micro-manage government in very restrictive ways, sometimes for the prettiest of reasons, and the mindless “starve the beast” measures promoted by republicans over the past 30 years have resulted in agencies that are severely understaffed do their missions, which congress is (nonetheless) constantly expanding.
Kushner (and certainly Trump) has no idea what he’s getting into.
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So a family with a history of bankruptcies (at least 5) is going to tell us how to run government like a business.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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I wass thinkin more Dorian Kushner–soon to be a major motionless picture. OT how do you strike through text?
This is yet another Democratic success story that is not told often enough, and another issue which the Democrats have somehow ceded to the Republicans.
From Elaine Kamarck:
There are many ways to measure the results. Obviously there are the simple statistics. Under the leadership of President Clinton who said “The era of big government is over,” we went to work to make that a reality.
We reduced the federal workforce by 426,200 between January 1993 and September 2000. Cuts occurred in 13 out of 14 departments making the federal government in 2000 the smallest government since Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.[1]
We acted on more than 2/3 of NPR regulations, yielding $136 billion in savings to the taxpayer.
We cut government the right way by eliminating what wasn’t needed – bloated headquarters, layers of managers, outdated field offices, obsolete red tape and rules. For example, we had cut 78,000 managers government-wide and some layers by late 1999.
We conducted a regulatory review that resulted in cuts equivalent to 640,000 pages of internal agency rules.
We closed nearly 2,000 obsolete field offices and eliminated 250 programs and agencies, like the Tea-Tasters Board, the Bureau of Mines, and wool and mohair subsidies. (Some of which have crept back into the government.)
We passed a government-wide procurement reform bill which led to the expanded use of credit cards for small item purchases, saving about $250 million a year in processing costs
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Hey, buddy. We’re the shareholders, not the customers. Customers are people you shaft, right?
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Carlyle Group didn’t do too badly either, with their massive defense holdings. Partners: George H W Bush, James Baker, Frank Carlucci, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, Shafiq bin Laden, a member of the Bin Laden family, among others.
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I think Ralph’s handle is an homage to his favorite composers.
Those who have a stake in the status quo in Washington DC will crush Jared like an overripe grape.
Yes, indeed, let’s get rid of all those pesky regulations and programs that hinder our ability to rake it in.
Jail the opposition?
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The son-in-law? Is there no limit to the idiocy?
Just like El Chapo!!!