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Things Crash with No One at the Controls
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoThis is disturbing. Is it accurate?
- nisa 8y agoIt's more or less a writeup and summary of the reporting on the Trump administration. I recall reading about most of these issues in reputable press outlets.
- chrisbennet 8y agoI know that upon entering office, the president has to appoint 1200 individuals - heads of various departments. The president hasn’t filled these position and the ones he has have been incompetent or against its mission. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis document this. ”Take Trump's choice to head National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Commerce Department agency that, among other responsibilities, oversees the National Weather Service. For that critical position, Trump has chosen Barry Myers, who is CEO of the private forecasting service AccuWeather. As Lewis points out, AccuWeather repackages the weather service's own data and sells it to private concerns for a profit. Myers at one time argued that "the government should get out of the forecasting business." In other words, you want to know if it's going to rain tomorrow? Or which way that hurricane is tracking? Well, buy our app, or subscribe to our forecasts. Myers has yet to be confirmed.”
- justanaccount1 8y agoThis is completely empty rhetoric and not based in reality:https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2019/02/07/editorial-end-foot-dragging-trumps-nominees/2791925002/ https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2019/02....