Posted on 10/29/2017 12:39:39 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The most recent cover of Time Magazine — or I should say.., given its parent company's recent decision "reducing ... circulation and frequency" of the formerly iconic publication — calls President Donald Trump's cabinet "The Wrecking Crew" on a mission of "dismantling government as we know it."
Separate reports singled out EPA Director Scott Pruitt, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and HUD Secretary Ben Carson for scrutiny.
The cover's word selection is obviously out of line, as none of the three is proposing to "dismantle" — meaning to "take (something) apart" (and not put it back together) — the agencies under their charge. The headlined addition of "as we know it" doesn't change that. But it does feed leftist paranoia, which is apparently the point.
Of course, none of Time's four articles pointed out that "government as we know it" has gone from spending just over $2 trillion per year to just shy of $4 trillion in the past 20 years. After taking inflation into account, that's a nearly 50 percent increase in real terms. Today's "government as we know it" doesn't accomplish 50 percent more than it did 20 years ago — unless getting in the way of progress is considered an accomplishment.
That didn't stop Deputy Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent Massimo Calabresi from claiming a "dismantling" again in his opening content. Rather than cite recent related statements by Trump, likely because he couldn't find any that were sufficiently inflammatory, Calabresi obsessed over Steve Bannon. Bannon was fired two months ago (the link is to Time's report on the firing), largely because he seemed to relish making outlandish claims, using terms like "deconstruction," about the scope of Team Trump's efforts.
Calabresi cited the departed Bannon's description of "deconstruction" ..
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Brilliant!
Yes they are, in fact, thankfully, robustly fundamentally transforming the fundamental transformation Obama did...and even more!!! The goal is to make the government even less.
Good allusion to The Haunting, scariest movie I ever saw.
This is a good thing.
Learn to live with it!
TIME will remain irrelevant until they start to understand why that headline delights SO many people.
Good.
Thank you President Trump. Keep up the good work. I’m hoping this is just the beginning and there is ten times more to come. MAGA.
Ya ....... so ?
LOL, but Let them buy their own.
D*mn right.
Government as we know it is the inept leading the buttkissers.
Name a branch of gubmit that is not now infected with low-T low IQ (but straight A) idiots, none of whom could make light, given bulbs, wires, and power.
The sooner they suffer and die a very bad death the better.
May they all be subjected to 150 dB rap until their brains turn into the sh*t that’s coming out of the speakers.
Oh, government, take those slimy NFL bottom dwellers with you.
Oh, I forgot we were also the bitter clingers!
Bannon was repurposed
“Trump’s Cabinet ‘Wrecking Crew’ Is ‘Dismantling Government As We Know It’”
Remember how the leftist media used to whine that Trump was stupid and incompetent, his administration was in total chaos, and he wasn’t keeping his campaign promises?
And now they’re whining that none of that is true.
They need to make up their minds ...
Yes. That is EXACTLY what Trump was hired to do.
+1
Thank you, Mr. President! MAGA!!!
So what's the problem Time Mag??
good
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