Dr. Keynes Was Right: 133

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The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

[T]he massive push to relocate federal jobs outside the Beltway comes with the risk of kneecapping agencies through the loss of experienced workers and bogging them down in logistical minutia.
-- Curt Devine/2024 [that's the point: make the Damn Gummint incompetent, then destroy it because it's incompetent]

There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/2024 [it's gotten worser, and worser, and worser, and worser]

Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him: "The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery.

-- Marriner Eccles/1951

This Week's thought

In fact, the number of full-time federal workers has been relatively static, within a few hundred thousand civilians, since the 1960s. ... [C]ontractors frequently end up costing the government more money.
-- Zachary B. Wolf/2024 [ya know, like The Musk Ox]

See you next week in a brand new show^{©Heckle and Jeckle}

03 January 2023

133

From the last episode in these essays:

"Draft The Donald!!" will be heard far and wide.

Well, Jeffries out voted Kevin three times:
First: Jeffries - 212 Kevin - 203
Second: Jeffries - 212 Kevin - 203
Third: Jeffres - 212 Kevin - 202

According to history's report, only twice has the Speaker vote gone beyond a perfunctory single ballot. And, of course, we can blame it all on Taxachusetts. 1923 went ten ballots to re-install the current speaker, and the longest ballot count was 1856 when it took 133 ballots to do the same thing.

Sectional conflict over slavery and a rising anti-immigrant mood in the nation contributed to a poisoned and deteriorating political climate.

I guess racism is the nature of The American Way.

There doesn't appear to be anyway out of the quagmire. The RRW is absolutely determined to return us now to the thrilling days of Yesteryear: party like it's 1829.

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