His recommended solution to NASA's problem—“ give bureaucrats more discretionary authority to do their jobs, fund them adequately, and eliminate the many political barriers that have been erected over the years that prevent them from doing so”—is fanciful, if not absurd and dangerous.
Every bureaucracy is part of our government and is under the exclusive control of the President. And every bureaucracy relies solely on Congress for funding. Further, all members of Congress and the President are political animals. Always have been and always will be. And patronage fuels their political careers. You can't change human nature.
Finally, you must always remember and never forget what we were taught by Emily St. John Mandel in her book, “Sea of Tranquility”:
"What you have to understand is that bureaucracy is an organism, and the prime goal of every organism is self-protection. Bureaucracy exists to protect itself."
Government should limit itself to doing those few things it does well, e.g., defense, building roads, public safety, etc., and enlist the assistance of the private sector for complex enterprises which require specialized expertise and need to be done quickly and efficiently. You want to go to the moon? Then give SpaceX, Blue Origin, or Virgin Galactic a call. They'll get you there—and for a helluva lot less money.
For an explanation, look at the graph of grade inflation and SAT score declines. We have replaced useful business and STEM rigor with social justice indoctrination hogwash. The small population of students that power through all that crap to get a good education don't end up in government jobs. It is the grade-inflated victim studied graduates that end up in the public sector.
Is it any wonder that nothing in government gets done when the politicians and government bosses are focused on DEI programs as their first priority?
“business” degrees are more nonsense than the woke bs. Just spreadsheet diddling. Instead of engineers running things, like in China, we have financial wizards and lawyers. Our best and brightest biznidsss school graduates invent ever new ways of packaging debt. So, as usual, you blame the wrong things and the wrong people.
Pshaw! you think that because you’re an Islamic Communist who doesn’t understand the Grand Strategy of The Deal by our glorious Dementia-Patient-in-Chief!!!🤣😵💫
I would suggest that we need no alternate history to understand the nature of the program that eventually put a number of Americans on the moon. Just watch the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon.
His recommended solution to NASA's problem—“ give bureaucrats more discretionary authority to do their jobs, fund them adequately, and eliminate the many political barriers that have been erected over the years that prevent them from doing so”—is fanciful, if not absurd and dangerous.
Every bureaucracy is part of our government and is under the exclusive control of the President. And every bureaucracy relies solely on Congress for funding. Further, all members of Congress and the President are political animals. Always have been and always will be. And patronage fuels their political careers. You can't change human nature.
Finally, you must always remember and never forget what we were taught by Emily St. John Mandel in her book, “Sea of Tranquility”:
"What you have to understand is that bureaucracy is an organism, and the prime goal of every organism is self-protection. Bureaucracy exists to protect itself."
Government should limit itself to doing those few things it does well, e.g., defense, building roads, public safety, etc., and enlist the assistance of the private sector for complex enterprises which require specialized expertise and need to be done quickly and efficiently. You want to go to the moon? Then give SpaceX, Blue Origin, or Virgin Galactic a call. They'll get you there—and for a helluva lot less money.
For an explanation, look at the graph of grade inflation and SAT score declines. We have replaced useful business and STEM rigor with social justice indoctrination hogwash. The small population of students that power through all that crap to get a good education don't end up in government jobs. It is the grade-inflated victim studied graduates that end up in the public sector.
Is it any wonder that nothing in government gets done when the politicians and government bosses are focused on DEI programs as their first priority?
“business” degrees are more nonsense than the woke bs. Just spreadsheet diddling. Instead of engineers running things, like in China, we have financial wizards and lawyers. Our best and brightest biznidsss school graduates invent ever new ways of packaging debt. So, as usual, you blame the wrong things and the wrong people.
As far as I can tell, Frank is wrong 100% of the time.
Pshaw! you think that because you’re an Islamic Communist who doesn’t understand the Grand Strategy of The Deal by our glorious Dementia-Patient-in-Chief!!!🤣😵💫
I would suggest that we need no alternate history to understand the nature of the program that eventually put a number of Americans on the moon. Just watch the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon.
Oh God, more power to bureaucrats. That went so well during covid.
The prerequisite for giving bureaucrats more discretion is bureaucrats who better reflect the diverse political views of the American citizenry....