I know a lot of people who flipped this election and voted for Trump NOT for his politics, but to stick it to the Dems. A scant few are regretful and the rest appear indifferent.
Nope, as long as other people will suffer more. Such mentality is a backbone of Russian culture and it seems America is now following the same way.
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Year_Plan#Role_of_G%C3%B6...
quote:
Hitler extended to Göring the power to make law simply by publishing decrees, which enabled him to create other plenipotentiaries in overall charge of various industries. Göring constantly expanded the scope of the plan until he became the de facto master of the German economy, and the Office of the Four Year Plan became, along with his control of the Luftwaffe as an independent armed service, the power base that he had lacked since the weakening of the other government positions that he held. Göring held no significant position in the Nazi Party, and his influence before he took on the Four Year Plan had been based primarily on his public popularity as a war hero and his easy access to Hitler.
The Reichswerke, an industrial conglomerate aimed at hastening growth in ore mining and steel output of Nazi Germany, a major piece of the Four Year Plan, was established and controlled by Göring.
Although the appointment of Göring as head of the plan had short-term benefits to Hitler, in the long term it was a disaster, as Göring knew next to nothing about economics, a factor that Hitler cited as one of the reasons for the choice.[12]
p.s. r/publishing decrees/tweeting ..
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5163375-musk-tru...
Minister without portfolio. (He already has his luftwaffe)
The budget is going to be messy. You're going to get a Liz Truss budget, which is definitely going to make a lot of the public unhappy.
> future bipartisan efforts
I think one effect of all this is creating a group of angry Democrats who, in a mirror of the Tea Party, will start primarying any Democrat who uses the word "bipartisan" as anything but a swearword.
A more widespread one is also more familiar to most HN readers: governments need a ton of IT, like everyone else, but are prohibited from offering competitive salaries or hiring staff instead of engaging a few large contracting companies. That has the direct impact of doubling costs and increasing turnover, but even worse is the higher likelihood of failure caused by not having institutional knowledge and expertise: contracting only works when you can provide clear instructions and hold the vendor accountable, but that requires you to have staff capable of doing so. Some agencies have been able to recruit skilled people based on their mission, but those are many of the teams being gutted now and it’ll take many years of better governance to convince people to come back after seeing how their public-spirited predecessors were treated.
If your boss fired you today and then called you up next week saying they'd made a mistake and offering you your old job back how charitable would you feel?
When funding for cancer research gets cut, do you think the studies that lost their funding can all suddenly pick up where they left off if funding comes back at some point in the future?
When jobs ensuring safety are cut, even if they're brought back, are you ok with the additional risk during the time period they're off the job?