Mike Hettinger

It’s probably worse here. The national media and their subjects are just chasing their next hit.

Everything is reported as a one-off i.e. “win the day”. There is no analytical perspective and this is a problem.

Classic “American” trucks like the F-150, Explorer and Bronco are build with less than 50% US parts.

This NHTSA list that lays out the global nature of the auto supply chain is fascinating. No car has more than 80% parts from Canada /US and it doesn’t even break out US v. Canada. www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa....

Biggest crier of wolf ever.

Nasdaq down nearly 2% at the open and for what? It’s not a reset, it’s a crash because the people steering the ship don’t know wtf they’re doing.

Helluva comeback by Florida.

I have a car on order from a German manufacturer. It’s built and waiting to be shipped. I told the dealer when I placed it that if there were tariffs and those were passed on to me, I would walk. This is going to be interesting.

GSA to ‘quadruple' in size to centralize procurement across the government The head of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service told employees at a Thursday meeting that the agency will “do about $400 billion” in procurement management under this effort.

Like most shared services, what’s proposed here at GSA will work for some smaller agencies but likely fail for larger ones. Large agencies have already maximized their economies of scale.
www.nextgov.com/acquisition/...

Man it feels like Friday.

The Players is setting up for we all know what. Drama at 17.

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We’ve officially jump the shark toward the most unnecessary economic downturn in world history.

This is all so weak.

Congrats. We are back to job cut numbers from the beginning of a fucking global pandemic.

The federal govt has been a destination employer for smart, civic minded professionals for over a century. I fear it never will be so again.

They’re fucking around enough with social security that something is going to go very wrong and when that happens ….

Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:      Section 1.

The idea that we don’t already do this stuff explains so much. Oh and have fun Mr. or Mrs. Agency head reviewing 4 million daily payments. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There was an open bid for this with multiple qualified teams awaiting award (SpaceX not among them) and poof, this happens. Among the most egregious procurement violations I’ve seen in my 30 years doing this.

*Sorry $4T.

This shit needs to end.

Here’s the link that explains it. JFC. Come on people, learn to use Google.
tfx.treasury.gov/taxonomy/ter...

I am so frustrated by the Treasury payments bullshit tonight. Smart people spewing absolute false information and everyone lapping it up. We didn’t lose $4B in Treasury payments. The TAS is an agency tag to make sure it’s tied to the right appropriation. It doesn’t track the payment out. JFC.

This was bound to happen.

Veterans fired, along with nuclear experts, cyber professionals and god knows who else because none of this is being done with any idea how the govt works. Shameful doesn’t even begin to capture it.

The federal govt gets deals from industry others don’t get (in a good way) partly because of size but more so because it’s viewed as a reliable partner. If that’s no longer the case, and it’s trending that way, contractor services will end up costing more in the long run.

“The government is corrupt” is the new “the election was rigged” - both patently false but an accepted position to take in certain circles.

We are heading toward a self-imposed, unnecessary recession w/ high skilled feds out of work and inflation rising. In the words of Colonel Nathan R. Jessep , “all you did was weaken a country today”.

If we go forward on the current path, our economy will crash like it’s 1929 and red states will be the ones most devastated. The US govt is 23% of gdp. If you destroy the govt, what you’re really doing is destroying gdp. Put it is those terms and see what happens.

If they don’t use their leverage, they, like the rest of us, will be banished to the dustbins of history.