Dr. Keynes Was Right: I Told You So

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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}

28 October 2023

I Told You So - 28 October 2023

It has happened again!! Earlier this month, was this missive which posited that Vlad, per usual, is the net winner in the Hamas-Israel fiasco. Here's this guest pundit from the NYT.

Russia is emerging as a major beneficiary of the war. With minimal effort, Moscow is reaping the benefits from the regional chaos that threatens Israelis and Palestinians with devastation and desolation.

QED

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