[TitansAFC]

The "Newt Gingrich for President" ping list!

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Conservatism, experience, results, eloquence, statesmanship, knowledge.
SERIOUS solutions to SERIOUS problems!
The Conservative who practices Capitalism and gets hated for it!

---Newt Gingrich 2012.

[TitansAFC]

Newt ping!

[gaijin]

Bring in experts? Sorta like a Blue Ribbon Commission?

That’s generally done to buy time and to force a difficult decision onto some person or entity that is not elected.

He sounds wobbly already.

[Olog-hai]

Ain’t that the management strategy used by companies that move their manufacturing operations out of the USA and to Red China all the time?

[GeronL]

does this involve twinkling consensus??

[Hotdog]

Looks good on paper but doesn’t work in real life...typical Professor teachings...

[GAB-1955]

We hear a lot about Six Sigma in terms of government, but without competition, government tends to run in the range of two sigma errors. Individual agencies can be improved. However, don't expect your DMV to be a Six Sigma (which is really a 4.5-sigma) agency soon.

[taildragger]

Good...

Make Fedzilla do ISO 9000, and 14000 and Kaizen events.

For the last 20 years Corp and Small business America has had to adapt these tools to get lean and mean to stay alive and it is not fun and can cause downsizing.

What was good for the goose...

All the effects of legislation drove up their cost and made them adapt these tools.

It is way overdue for all of Fedzilla to be doing all these things...

[PGalt]

Forget 6-sigma Newt. Control the proper variables. DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. 8-sigma. Chart it. REDUCE the debt in less than 10 years.

[Notary Sojac]

This is not the sort of thing which will strengthen my support for Newt.

Six Sigma is nothing but the core concepts of industrial engineering which go way back to Taylor and Gilbreth in the early 1900's, just gussied up with a lot of gimmickry to make money for consultants.

[MomwithHope]

My hubby is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He just said the government can’t get their head out of their ass to do lean six sigma. He says the military is using it with success.

[Errant]

Lean Six Sigma within government is planting more trees so you can see the forest.

This is the only method for eliminating the "deadwood", that works!

BTW, if this is the best that Newt can do, we're hurting if he gets the nomination...

[Lou L]

Unless—as a result of using Six Sigma methodology—one is willing to axe government jobs completely, this idea will fail before it gets off the ground.

We don’t want an efficiently large government; we want an efficient smaller government.

This isn’t a slam against Gingrich.

[GeronL]

Do you want government to be efficient at its tyranny or less powerful?

[oldbill]

History major Newt Gingrich doesn’t have a clue as to what Six Sigma means.

He is just trying to latch on to some new fad that will prove as equally stupid and wasteful as Total Quality Management was 15 yeaqrs ago.

Sorry Newt, but last night you were that guy in the hangman joke where the condemned man (you, Newt) tells the hangman how to fix the trapdoor that didn’t work properly the first attempt.

Newt lives in a sheltered world of million dollar jewelry accounts and million dollar consultant contracts. He doesn’t have a clue about what the average citizen is facing with the illegal alien scourge. His constituency is the Wall Street Journal and the Chamber of Commerce and the illegal-alien-loving phalanx of Fox News pundits.

[SueRae]

I can just see the fishbone/ishikawa diagram of the 0bamacare Act and its agencies alone...what an eye chart. They’ll be doing the analysis for years. Better make that one an objective of JDI thinking. Repeal? Just do it!!

[bossmechanic]

Gingrich latched onto a manufacturing improvement method thats about 8 years old and was just a remarketing of statistical process control and old Edward Deming ideas. They all work when properly applied but Lean is no damn magic bullet for anything.
This is what bugs me about Gingrich. He is reasonably smart and a very good historian but when he sticks his nose in anything having to do with science, he’s a moron. Just like his support of the whole manmade global warming farce.
The problem with pentagon spending and government in general is just simple stupid waste, waste, waste. You’ve got tens of thousands of paperpushers that don’t produce a damn thing of value - just air breathers drawing checks. It should be obvious when a full congress can’t save a trivial $1.2 trillion out of a massive debt saddled system -even when they spead it over 10 years and just have to cut the rate of increase. Cripes folks - it ain’t that hard. It takes some guts, honesty, and willingness to make some decisions and fire(repurpose) a bunch of useless government leaches.
Lean management and six sigma is just management du jour. It will point to places to improve but if you haven’t got the balls to make the changes, it’s just a huge waste of time and a BS smokescreen that will have NO results.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Will Lean Sigma Six could make government smaller and more limited?

[stig]

Individuals who want to learn more about Lean Six Sigma have the opportunity to do so at many colleges, including Pennsylvania's Villanova University. Business professionals can earn a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate during a 16-week course, according to the school's website.

Six Sigma is for people who have no idea what the definition of innovation is.

Really people if it was about process then Apple would have died when the iPhone 4 had reception problems. But people understood the INNOVATION and were willing to put up with a few bumps in the road.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Too much ivory tower.

IMPORT TARIFFS!

Enough trade theory. Stop this “free trade” stupidity.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Further proof that Newt thinks the only thing wrong with our government is that he is not running it. Instead of trying to make programs and departments more efficient he should propose eliminating them.