Posted on 01/15/2017 9:47:06 PM PST by aquila48
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is simply incompatible with the Trump era.
President-elect Trump won as an entrepreneurial change agent who would “drain the swamp”, get Washington under control, take charge of the bureaucracies, and get things done in an entrepreneurial, common sense way. The Congressional Budget Office is the opposite of these commitments.
It is a left-wing, corrupt, bureaucratic defender of big government and liberalism. Its scoring of ObamaCare was not just wrong, it was clearly corrupt. CBO literally brought in the architect of ObamaCare to be the adviser on scoring the very Obamacare legislation that he helped write. The score was a lie. It was so wrong it was totally indefensible. A year later the CBO produced a new score that was so much more expensive that it was clear ObamaCare would have been defeated if it had been the original score.
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President-elect Trump presents a perfect test case for CBO in one of his best stories, the repairing of the Wollman Rink in Central Park.
This story is told brilliantly in Trump’s bestselling book, The Art of the Deal.
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In 1980 the skating rink stopped making ice. For six years at a cost of $13 million dollars the city bureaucracy failed to fix it. The very sophisticated, expensive system they installed did not work. You could tell it did not work because there was no ice. Trump’s penthouse looks out over Central Park. He got tired of looking at the empty skating rink so he began taunting Mayor Koch in the newspapers. Finally, Mayor Koch responded, saying the city would give Trump $3 million and six months to fix the skating rink.
What tells a lot about Trump and Trumpism was his reaction to Mayor Koch’s challenge.
(Excerpt) Read more at gingrichproductions.com ...
Gingrich Productions ?
Kek.
That’s what I like about Trump, he knows enough (unlike entrenched government bureaucrats) to assign each job to whoever is most capable of completing it properly. It’s just proper management!
If I were Trump, I would hire a Sam Bottoms look-alike to follow me everywhere....His job would be to simply say “Whooped em’ again, didn’t we Josie” after every victory....
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