> Having a lot of problems doesn't mean you have to throw up your hands and take a totally unstructured approach to solving them. Having a lot of problems for

> Having a lot of problems doesn't mean you have to throw up your hands and take a totally unstructured approach to solving them. Having a lot of problems for a long time generally means other attempts have failed. > So work on setting realistic budgets instead of slashing and burning things at random. According to prior governments, the current budget is realistic. According to the current admin, a slashed and burned budget is realistic. > The problem with both of these is that they require people who a) know what they're doing and b) really want to make things better. The new US administration does not appear to fulfill either of those requirements. We ran a deficit the whole way through the greatest economic expansion since the post WW2 era. IMO no admin in the last 25 years has fulfilled those requirements.