CNN publishes so-called “analysis” by an editor-at-large with the headline “1 sentence that explains the wacky and super dysfunctional world of Donald Trump”.
The article is about White House personnel turnover and non-estrangement even when there is turnover.
Why look at inputs? Why not look at outputs of Trump’s administration? That’s a polite way of saying that CNN and the Washington Post habitually go out of their way to focus on anything superficial having to do with Trump that provides them a negative headline. They never let up, even 15 months into his administration. One effect has been to sideline Trump’s desire to cooperate with Putin. The resulting danger of stoking hostility with Russia is monumental.
How about the substantial reduction in federal regulations? How about this? “Trump Regulations: Federal Register Page Count Is Lowest In Quarter Century”.
“A year ago, Obama set the all-time Federal Register page record with 95,894 pages.
“Trump’s Federal Register is a 35 percent drop from Obama’s record, set last year.”
Recognizing that the numbers are iffy, the 2016 federal outlays came to $3.54 trillion. The 2017 outlays are said to be 3.65 trillion. This increase is 3.1 percent.
The two ruling parties view libertarians as from another planet, if not galaxy, and these numbers show it. However, that is not my point, which is that a 3.1 percent change is no wackier or dysfunctional than what the last two presidents brought us. Outlays were $2.2T in 2000 and $3.02T in 2008. Bush 2 hiked outlays by 37.3 percent in 8 years. Obama went from $3.02T to $3.54T in 2016, an increase of 17.2 percent in his 8 years.
5:58 pm on March 19, 2018
