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Bill de Blasio. It used to be that college students would imitate adults.  Wearing suits and elegant attire, they would act as mature as they could. Nowadays, it is the reverse.  Adults are imitating college students, supporting all manner of youthful positions, mostly extreme uncompromising views – the typical fair of sophomores.  Case-in-point.  With NY City in grief over the loss of a police officer to assassination, the mayor jets off to Europe to hang with a bunch of protesters with seeming goal simply to protest. The man seems to be singularly immature, usually a recoverable illness, but not in his case.

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Presidents. Clinton was bogged down a lot by personal issues. Bush was bogged down by wars in the Middle East. Obama was bogged down by trying to remake the US and the world into a globally unified enterprise.
 
The question is: Who’s taking care of our country?  This includes the bridges and roadways, the waterways and schools, the power plants, the lakes and rivers, the airports, health care, transportation, energy, timber, and just about everything else. I know all these mundane things are boring to those flying very high, but the tasks at hand need concentrated work from the top.

Regulations have some value but often serve as brakes, seldom as solutions.  Certainly, they have a short half-life.

It is my hope that Trump, who revels in operational details, will consider solving these probably boring but absolutely critical tasks, many of which will become crises.   If he does, he can expect no credit.  While these needs are critical, they offer little political cachet. Little credit will accrue during his term. The press will not notice. The pundits will be dumb to their occurrence.  However, the next generation will benefit without recognition it ever happened. Just like parents doing their tough job, the work is seldom recognized – until many years later.


If Trump does not succeed, the problems remain, each getting worse year-by-year.
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