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 ...
Bannon was repurposed
This is not a new tactic. Remember Bush got us a minuscule tax cut and the left flipped out claiming it was the biggest giveaway in history. The Republicans never came back for another cut so the tactic worked. They’re up to the same tactic again. It probably will work on the Congress. No way it’s going to work on Trump though. I don’t think he cares about 2020.
Yeh!
Slow Down Boss.45 when ya get back to 1787. Then Take another look @ Our First Constitution, and then additional provisions for an Army and Navy!
In doing so, pay attention to that DOI and Bill of Rights!
That’s ALL!!!!!!!!!!!
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Semper TRUMP ~ If We Can Keep Him?
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DJT needs to buy thousands of pink pussy hats and issue the to the bleating crybabies.
Trump Roller Graphic By FReeper Smoothsailing.
May He Rest In Peace
Fed Ed and Fed EPA were mostly mistakes to begin with and have gotten destructive or at least badly out of control in the last 8 years, they both need substantial repair.
But the absolute worst areas needing the quickest Swamp Draining are O’s infiltrator-alligators-enemy agents-moles at SnakeDept, security, military, intelligence, and policy agencies.
These alligators could drag USA into serious wars .. and they could also completely undermine President Trump’s entire administration...if these swamps are not drained soon, imho.
Just seems like a relic of the past. Like rotary-dial phones, pinball machines and Western Union telegrams.
President Trump is saving America for being a communists Democrat piece of junk. GO PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Nothing could make me happier either. At times I wish he could do it even faster.
What remains of “Time” is not worth the title.
Clever. It took me a minute to figure out the pun.
Here we are, more than 9 months after Trump’s inauguration, and Pruitt’s do-nothing EPA hasn’t dumped toxic wastes into a single river.
OUTSTANDING!!!!
Ditto! We would desire to see a government that resembles the Constitution and the intent of our founding fathers. MAGA
Time didn’t have to pay anyone to write stories. The Gubbermint wrote them all. So they just had to sit around and fondle their pork.
Didn’t Obama say that you had to break a few eggs to make a omelet?
Nothing like putting your time to good use.
Deconstruction is not at all the same thing as destruction. To deconstruct is to remove superfluous and nonfunctional appendages, while maintaining the original operation of the apparatus, or streamlining its efficiency using known means to assure smoother delivery of services. Much like why industrial machinery is replaced by newer and faster or more efficient designs.
Diesel-electric replacing steam-driven pistons and pipe fittings.
Destruction, on the other hand, is simply demolition without necessarily intending to replace or repair the infrastructure that previously existed.
If ONLY!
He’s cutting back on huge, expensive mindless bureaucracies that provide jobs for incompetents and billions out of the pockets of working people. Then the has the gall to tell us they’re providing a vital service.
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