Posted on 02/21/2020 9:12:05 AM PST by Kaslin
It was a surprise to learn, from a campaign ad, no less, that Michael Bloomberg is, or at least was, an engineer. A look at Wikipedia confirms that Bloomberg graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1964 with an electrical engineering degree. This made me roll my eyes and say a prayer asking that Bloomberg not be allowed anywhere near the White House this coming November or any other. Not that engineering isn't a noble profession and that engineers aren't intelligent, moral people. But the truth is, engineers make horrible presidents.
There have been two presidents of the United States who were trained as engineers: Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter. Both were unmitigated disasters, who each made things worse and met with electoral defeat after just one term. Hoover and Carter were such bad presidents that they are in the running for worst president ever, which is saying quite a bit when you consider the stiff competition for the title. Hoover, a mining engineer, arguably made the Great Depression much worse than it had to be, trusting that the federal government could steer into the skid better than the market. Carter, a nuclear engineer, if you can believe it, was so inept that he consistently made the wrong decisions throughout his term of office, actually performing worse than if he'd simply flipped a coin to decide matters by chance.
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As an engineer with strong “constitutional originalist” leanings, surely as President I’d not last more than a month before being kinetically terminated for aggressive restoration of natural rights & Constitutional order, including an absolute refusal to spend more than revenue - resulting in a crash of the welfare economy. Whether that would constitute “worst POTUS” would be a deeply divisive issue, and I wouldn’t care having corrected long-established wrongs.
Bloomers is a double-e??? I wouldn’t have thought he could pass a course in baitcasting theory, let alone an engineering discipline.
Hoover was a Republican.
He lost his re-election bid in 1932, but was so highly regarded in Washington that he quietly served outside the public eye as an adviser to future presidents as late as Dwight Eisenhower in the mid-1950s.
[Bloomers is a double-e??? I wouldn’t have thought he could pass a course in baitcasting theory, let alone an engineering discipline.]
Hoover gets a bum rap for things that were completely outside his control.
“I’m surprised you’re surprised. Bloomberg is a formidable person. You don’t build a company from scratch to a 20,000 person enterprise, at the expense of an incumbent with a 100-year head start, by being a dummy.”
Bloomberg is probably the only dem running with any brains with the possible exception of Mayor Pete. Bloomberg actually created and built something.
MiniMike MacGyver.
Hoover sucked - he was a technocrat.
Hoover was elected mostly because he was famous for coordinating the effort that saved millions of starving people in Europe after WWI. My wife's mother was a huge fan. He was the most maligned president until now. Roosevelt was the one who extended the “great depression” until WWII. So I disagree completely that Hoover was a bad president. The guy that wrote the article relied on revisionist history.
The president did not draft a formal executive order but announced the new policy in a press release. The results were dramatic. The new executive policy did not ameliorate the Depression, but it slashed immigration from all foreign lands by nearly 90 percent. In 1931, for the first time in the country's history, the outflow of residents leaving for other lands exceeded the inflow of immigrants.
--- From "The Hill" (11/21/2014)
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If you read on, this is more or less what the author said when he continued.
He was the capital behind the Bloomberg Terminals, but I have my doubts about him being the brains behind the technology and programming. One of his partners was a programmer. I wonder what his former partners have to say about what it was like to work with him.
He’s not an engineer, and the conclusion is unwarranted. It’s impossible to conclude that engineers make lousy presidents from the perceived performance of two.
I will argue that the logical mind, the clear rule-based thinking and the math ability are an asset, and would lead to more logical actions than what we currently see coming from LAWYERS!
The engineer must have a clear, true picture of reality in his/her mind in order to function as an engineer. That is really lacking among politicians, who are mostly lawyers. Lawyers excel in saying the exact opposite of reality, and often win points for saying words that have no definite meaning.
Three (male) engineers (redundant?) were debating over what kind of engineer designed the human body.
The mechanical engineer claimed that the skeletal system was abviously designed by a mechanical engineer.
The electrical engineer claimed that the elaborate nervous system was evidence that the body was designed by an electrical engineer.
The civil engineer insisted that the female body, at least, was designed by a civil engineer. When the other two demanded some kind of proof of his assertion, he said, “Who else would route a waste pipe through a recreational area?”
What Hoover did wrong was to raise taxes in a depression. Calvin Coolidge claimed that the advice Hoover gave him was “all bad.”
But Hoover had sterling character. They did name a dam after him. He also supported presidential pensions because Truman was not wealthy and needed his pension.
He didn’t build jack $#!+ from scratch. He had a 10m head start after being canned in the Salomon Brothers buy out. He also had three partners who helped get Bloomberg Terminal started. Wonder what his former partners think of the little general.
[He didn’t build jack $#!+ from scratch. He had a 10m head start after being canned in the Salomon Brothers buy out. ]
How many people build a $60b fortune with their $10m buyouts? Trump inherited his father’s contacts in the trade and was *given* tens of millions of dollars and he’s not worth $60b.
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