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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (198626)	4/12/2021 1:41:02 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 364356

>> Blowing it up is not constructive, not the answer. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the answer. Sometimes it is necessary to blow up old ideas. Figuratively, at least. Internal Revenue Service continues to use 1960s era data processing systems. It will take billions to upgrade it (they say 3 billion, but we know that means 10 billion or 20 billion). No indication that one plug nickel is allocated in Biden's insane 10 Trillion insane political payoff wasteful spending binge (something Trump would never have signed). Meanwhile, they have to shut down their systems a week out of each month for posting batch updates. In 2021. Yeah, lots of government can be blown up. I'm speaking here of federal government, and a model I first discussed decades on an arcane Usenet board, which suggested the elimination of a congressional role altogether. That post developed a significant bit of discussion for a long time after I made it with others making their own suggestions to improve on my initial idea. Congress does not serve a single useful purpose I can find. And certainly, not one worthy of a big untouchable building with its own 2500 person police force and other nonsense only congress could dream up. Of course, we were talking about state houses, but they are mostly just earlier versions of the federal bureaucracy at a budget limited state of evolution. The federal government is sort of a worst case scenario, but if you modeled the growth of government I think given enough time they all spin out of control. Texas and Florida are models of excellence in state government, while California and NY are models that have reached points of early failure, still recoverable if they can bring Reagan back from the dead.

To: Lane3 who wrote (198626)	4/12/2021 7:17:20 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 364356

Blowing it up is not constructive, not the answer. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the answer. It is if you have convinced yourself you are insulated from the resulting chaos, maybe even benefitting from it, and have zero compassion for those who aren't. Maybe you even believe the ones who would be caught in the gears when the fecal matter comes in contact with the rotating impeller deserve what happens to them. I find it repellant to try to put myself in the shoes of a sociopath, but...