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Thursday, February 7, 2019

Ad Hoc . . .

. . . study . . .

. . . by Sarah Huckabee Sanders . . . 'cause there's no readily available evidence of her statement's veracity . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/nearly-60-percent-trump-s-schedule-executive-time-report-says-n966376)
"While he spends much of his average day in scheduled meetings, events, and calls, there is time to allow for a more creative environment that has helped make him the most productive President in modern history," she said. "President Trump has ignited a booming economy with lower taxes and higher wages, established the USA as the #1 producer of oil and gas in the world, remade our judiciary, rebuilt our military, and renegotiated better trade deals. It’s indisputable that our country has never been stronger than it is today under the leadership of President Trump."

(from https://www.google.com/search?q=measure+of+U.S.+Presidential+%27productivity%27&oq=measure+of+U.S.+Presidential+%27productivity%27&aqs=chrome..69i57.12375j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
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Productivity should be on the next president's agenda
https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-to-rev-up-productivity/
Oct 6, 2016 - The simplest measure of productivity is output per hour worked (labor productivity) and it has increased at only 1.3 percent a year from 2004 through 2015, in contrast to the pace of 3.2 percent a year from 1995 to 2004.

Which Presidents Have Been Best for the Economy? | Data Mine | US ...
https://www.usnews.com › Civic › Data Mine
Oct 28, 2015 - Former Republican President Ronald Reagan is widely recognized ... worker productivity and ultimately help drive both economic growth and wage gains. ... inherit problems without enough time to take preventive measures.

[PDF]Presidents and the US Economy: An ... - Princeton University
https://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/papers/DemRep_BlinderWatson_July2015.pdf
by AS Blinder - ‎2015 - ‎Cited by 67 - ‎Related articles
The U.S. economy has performed better when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican, almost regardless of how one measures performance. For many measures, including real GDP growth (on which we focus), the performance gap is large and significant.

TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS: How they compare with Obama, Bush ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-first-100-days-how-compare-obama-bush-clin...
Apr 29, 2017 - When presidents take office, they have the most political capital to enact their agenda. Studies have found that it's the most productive time for legislative action. ... from a study that measured laws passed during Congress's first 100 days, ... to the American Presidency Project, while FDR penned over 3,700.
A productivity scorecard for the 115th Congress - Pew Research Center
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/.../a-productivity-scorecard-for-115th-congress/
Jan 25, 2019 - Three decades of legislative productivity in U.S. Congress ... Congress and President Donald Trump to agree on a temporary funding measure ...

A President's First 100 Days Really Do Matter | FiveThirtyEight
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-presidents-first-100-days-really-do-matter/
Jan 17, 2017 - during their first 100 days using the U.S. Statutes at Large: .... Another hurdle to measuring presidential effectiveness: Productivity isn't just ...
What America's latest GDP figures reveal - Economic growth
https://www.economist.com/united-states/.../what-americas-latest-gdp-figures-reveal
Aug 2, 2018 - But on July 27th President Donald Trump was “thrilled” to announce that ... Using a smoother measure of growth, which compares quarterly GDP with the ... and that America's persistently disappointing wage and productivity ...

President Trump's repeated claim: 'The greatest economy in the ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../president-trumps-repeated-claim-greatest-economy-...
Claim: “This is the greatest economy that we've had in our history, the best.”
Claimed by: Donald Trump
Fact check by Washington Post: Three Pinocchios
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Falling From First to Last: President Trump has signed the fewest bills ...
https://govtrackinsider.com/falling-from-first-to-last-president-trump-has-signed-the-f...
Dec 21, 2017 - GovTrack.us to track exactly what Congress is up to. As of today ... Counting bills is not a measurement of legislative productivity. There are ...
Productivity - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/productivity
Jan 25, 2017 - U.S. productivity gains were almost halved in the past decade compared ... This led to a more complex measure called total-factor or multi-factor productivity, ... U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to invest at least $1 ...

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Different . . .

. . . but the same . . .

(from Thomas Jefferson; The Art of Power by Jon Meacham)
". . . Both Federalists and Republicans believed the fate of the United States could turn on the confrontation of the hour. In the broad public discourse, driven by partisan editors publishing partisan newspapers, there seemed no middle ground, only extremes of opinion or of outcome . . . "

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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Not Quite . . .

. . . a shutdown . . .

. . . but history CAN teach a lesson . . .

(from Thomas Jefferson; The Art of Power by Jon Meacham)
". . . the beginning of wisdom, Jefferson thought, might lie in a meeting of the principals out of the public eye. Se he convened a dinner. Jefferson believed things could be worked out, he said, for :men of sound heads and honest views needed nothing more than explanation and mutual understanding to enable them to unite in some measures which might enable us to get along. . . No deal meant disaster. It was clear, Jefferson wrote, "that if everyone retains inflexibly his present opinion, there will be no bill passed at all for funding the public debts, and ... without funding there is an end of the government . . ."

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Monday, February 4, 2019

Staying . . .

. . . Well

Of poetry, I know not much
Of life, I've learned a little
I don't profess an expert be
In politics, left, right or middle

Mechanics of most any sort
Don't operate quite rightly
No matter how sincere I try
Results I take not lightly

In love, my fortune great indeed
The reasons not apparent
My find, I treasure constantly
Of indefinite fidelity I truly am declarant

And for the icing on the cake
As by the sea I dwell
The music that I hear and make
sustains and keeps me well

At Once
©2018 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Sunday, February 3, 2019

Barking . . .

. . . up the wrong tree . . .

There must be more than this
We’re better than our differences
Nothing will divide us
What we share is all that makes us good
Only if we would

Don’t let me ever forget it
There’s no such thing as
‘It’s them or it’s us’
This isn’t the way it should be
We’re still barking up the wrong tree

Seems so many motivators
Live inside us just behind the scenes
Mysterious but still just
Bold and calculating
Wild beyond your dreams
Way beyond our means

United
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Saturday, February 2, 2019

Bridges . . .

Bill Swartwout

Six AM
The buses aren't nearly as crowded
As the night before
Someone said there was
Music and laughter
Behind all the shutters and doors
What was all of it for

Who needs friends
There's barely a minute for breathing
Everyone here works so hard
There's no party
When I reach my doorstep
I struggle to pull out my key
Where's the meaning for me

You see but you're unaware
There's life on the other side

But there's no bridge to cross
I'm looking through the fog
For some way out of here
I've baggage here to toss

Bless my soul
I've read about you in the paper
I've seen your picture somewhere
When you speak it's in volumes and volumes
I can't hear a word that you say
Funny it happens that way

I've been told that envy's the thing I've been feeling
For your kind of work and your play
But to tell you the truth
That it's only a wish
For a new kind of day
When worry and fear melt away

Could be
That a day will come
When you just might understand

I’d like to go away
And go there to stay
But I can’t find the way

So it goes
But change never really comes easy
Resistance is felt all around
But inevitably something happens
That makes the old ship run aground
We all stare in awe of what’s found

Like me you appear to be
Looking for some meaning here

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Friday, February 1, 2019

News. . .

. . . fake and otherwise . . .

(from Thomas Jefferson; The Art of Power by Jon Meacham)
". . . The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them....Do not be too severe upon [the people's] errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind. . . "

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