Posted on 10/29/2017 12:39:39 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The most recent cover of Time Magazine — or I should say.., given its parent company's recent decision "reducing ... circulation and frequency" of the formerly iconic publication — calls President Donald Trump's cabinet "The Wrecking Crew" on a mission of "dismantling government as we know it."
Separate reports singled out EPA Director Scott Pruitt, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and HUD Secretary Ben Carson for scrutiny.
The cover's word selection is obviously out of line, as none of the three is proposing to "dismantle" — meaning to "take (something) apart" (and not put it back together) — the agencies under their charge. The headlined addition of "as we know it" doesn't change that. But it does feed leftist paranoia, which is apparently the point.
Of course, none of Time's four articles pointed out that "government as we know it" has gone from spending just over $2 trillion per year to just shy of $4 trillion in the past 20 years. After taking inflation into account, that's a nearly 50 percent increase in real terms. Today's "government as we know it" doesn't accomplish 50 percent more than it did 20 years ago — unless getting in the way of progress is considered an accomplishment.
That didn't stop Deputy Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent Massimo Calabresi from claiming a "dismantling" again in his opening content. Rather than cite recent related statements by Trump, likely because he couldn't find any that were sufficiently inflammatory, Calabresi obsessed over Steve Bannon. Bannon was fired two months ago (the link is to Time's report on the firing), largely because he seemed to relish making outlandish claims, using terms like "deconstruction," about the scope of Team Trump's efforts.
Calabresi cited the departed Bannon's description of "deconstruction" ..
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Months ago, someone said this mess of the Obama administration & Shrillary was bigger than the Teapot Dome Scandal of years ago. Sounds about right....
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“dismantling government as we know it.”
This writer does not know what he is talking about. Government he knows about must be the obama’s government, for before that we had a government much like Pres Trump is trying to restore for us.
obama set our country into a crisis mode.. economy in shreds, jobs scarce .. only the elite enjoyed those 8 obama years.. it was a steady downhill for our nation.
So the writer of the opinion article is nuts.. he wants more of obama.. God forbid!
Thank you for the insightful history lesson, probably not to be found in our Ivy League colleges.
My heart beats faster at just the suggestion that Trump might be doing what we elected him to do.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
Not that I remember ... They sure hated Reagan. They have definitely gotten worse over the years.
ALL RIGHT!!!
That’s what we hired him to do.
we need a tidal wave of smackdown arrest of the big players, or it is all lies and deceit...
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