Once again, "like a business"

 

The World They Are Building

One of my problems in trying to explain the disaster that Trump represents is that sometimes I talk to Wall Street types. They are perfectly happy with what the Orange One is doing. Oh, yes, the tariffs and layoffs are painful now, but all that will mean massive savings in government debt. So everything will be just ducky. 

The kicker is, of course, that Wall Streeters and Business-types think no more than 3 months in advance. That’s long-term planning for them. And governments should think in terms of decades, or even generations. And right now, what Trump is doing is wrecking our society for untold generations yet to come. The cuts of “wasteful programs” – as in funding for the sciences, basic research, infrastructure, etc. – means that we’ll be behind most every other nation on earth. While Musk’s DOGE is congratulating itself on its parsimony, China is putting big money into AI, computer science, silicon chips, and more.

All of which will give Beijing significant advantages politically, economically, and militarily in the near term, and perhaps permanent hegemony in the long.

Thus, once again, we run across the reality that the government cannot be run “like a business,” and that attempts to do so (particularly by people like Trump and Musk) are not just futile. They’re actually deadly.