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2022-05-11 Home Front: Politix
CNN fact checker slams Biden's claim that he reduced federal deficit
[NYPOST] CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
’s fact checker Daniel Dale pushed back on President Biden’s recent claim that his policies had helped to reduce the federal deficit — revealing that one expert told him that the Democrat’s assertion was "almost bizarro world" in its misrepresentation of the situation.

"Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit," Biden said a speech last Wednesday. "All the talk about the deficit from my Republican friends, I love it. I’ve reduced $350 billion in my first year in office."

Biden made the claim while touting his administration’s economic track record — despite fierce criticism from Republican politicians who argue his policies have contributed to rampant inflation and led the US economy to the brink of a recession.

During a Monday appearance on CNN’s "New Day" and in a separate article, Dale noted that the federal deficit had indeed declined during fiscal 2021. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
 the deficit decline was originally expected to be even larger than the figure Biden referenced.

Dale added that economic experts "still scoffed at the idea that President Biden is personally responsible for having reduced the deficit."
Posted by Fred 2022-05-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Seriously does anyone still think Biden is running the White House?

I quit blaming Biden after it was abundantly clear he had advanced mental clarity issues brought on by his age.

SO LET US PLACE BLAME, WHERE BLAME IS DUE.
The handlers, congressional controllers, and King Whispers lurking in the shadows.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-05-11 07:40||   2022-05-11 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 You saw that when the real 'boss' showed up at the WH and the staff fawned around him.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-11 08:14||   2022-05-11 08:14|| Front Page Top

#3 I blame every damn one of them in Washington DC.
Posted by Chris 2022-05-11 08:59||   2022-05-11 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ THIS.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2022-05-11 09:04||   2022-05-11 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Run every one of them out and let a two year contract with five year renewable to the Musk team. Musk hires people from each state and levies achievable performance objectives in key areas.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-11 09:47||   2022-05-11 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 1) Fed gummint budget should be limited to stuff the Constitution says fed gummint is actually responsible for.

2) Fed gummint budget should be constitutionally capped at some percentage of what they actually took in 2 years previous with a safety margin.

No borrow and spend except (maybe) in a true national emergency.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-11 09:54||   2022-05-11 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Before you fawn over Musk I had a friend who worked on building the Tesla plant in Austin and the Tesla culture was not big on lessons learned. They'd rather repeat known errors and incrementally improve them over time.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-05-11 10:26||   2022-05-11 10:26|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Nobody is perfect. There is so much Gawd Awful embedded in our culture now that mediocre to just good enough looks outstanding.

That does not mean we should settle for that. Ever.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-11 10:31||   2022-05-11 10:31|| Front Page Top

#9 "Tesla not big on lessons learned."

I'm a voting, US citizen. I've become accustomed to this. Are there other downsides ?
Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-11 10:59||   2022-05-11 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Tesla, Austin, both, or is this just everywhere?

They'd reinvent the wheel
Watch it spin and marvel
At the breakthrough
They had found
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-05-11 13:17||   2022-05-11 13:17|| Front Page Top

#11 My info is strictly about Tesla Austin. The lessons ignored that I remember was about how many bathrooms per worker are required. how they had too few in the Oakland plant and people urinated in dark corners because they couldn't be away from the assembly line for long. Then when building the Austin plant they seemed to fight to maintain the original numbers instead of adding the new numbers that were determined as necessary.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-05-11 13:48||   2022-05-11 13:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Was the issue too few restrooms, too short rest breaks per distance, or nasty, lazy employees?
Posted by Glenmore  2022-05-11 14:01||   2022-05-11 14:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Shouldn't have happened the first time, definitely not repeated.

Traffic analysis has been a science since I'd guess Sim City, before then a refined art, and before that a pretty damn good guess.

The factory designers are boobs, and the approval committee is full of boobs who didn't have the info independently double-checked.

The defects were known, but the boobs involved are connected, so it was all overlooked.

Boobs involved in the selection of the factory approval committee did not/could not rotate out the boobs in the approval and/or design process.

Traffic analysis is full of boobs who didn't update their software to include employees using the shitter as PED screen time.

The employee pool is full of boobs who spend 30-45 minutes on the shitter past allotted/planned for bathroom usage using their phones.

Employee pool is full of boobs who'd take a piss in the corner to get the extra 10 minutes screen time.

The employee pool is full of boobs who found the best way to black cat the factory is to take obnoxious unquestionable breaks and contaminate the facility with feces until it has to be shut down and sandblasted clean.

The head of that branch has decided it is easier to be a boob and go along as these sorts of things are built into and expected of government projects and to do otherwise would gain unwanted attention.

Then there is, yes, Musk at the top there giving the go/no go on ROI vs. goals.

If they use a simplified formula, furthest worker in the furthest shift break from restroom at reasonable travel pace, there and back again, with 10 minutes in restroom, 25% taking a dump determines number of toilets/urinals. Of course women's restroom is all toilets, so that considered at say 50/50 work population. Fine and well if that formula was gathered after smoking was made illegal and before screentime; may be legitimate OSHA/Union formula. Now, with the screen time and vaping, the older formula of transit time including 2 cigarettes and a beer would be more accurate.

Of course more data is needed, and that data exists especially clock in/clock out and internet data usage especially during said breaks.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-05-11 14:56||   2022-05-11 14:56|| Front Page Top

#14 In any design for commercial/industrial buildings there are national standards for how many bathrooms and how many urinals, toilets, sinks there are depending on the number of people who will be working there. If those don't meet standards it's the designer's and/or the building inspector that is letting them slide.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-05-11 17:26||   2022-05-11 17:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Ha, Kansas doing me stream of consciousness there... which inexplicably lapsed, halfway through, into Bobby and the priest Downfall-style.
Posted by Fat Bob Johnson7002 2022-05-11 23:58||   2022-05-11 23:58|| Front Page Top

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