Carter on Smaller Government: Words for Trump

In his February 1977 address, President Carter stated:

I also said many times during the Campaign that we must reform and reorganize the Federal Government.

I have often used the phrase “competent and compassionate” to describe what our Government should be. When the Government must perform a function, it should do it efficiently. Wherever free competition would do a better job of serving the public, the Government should stay out. Ordinary people should be able to understand how our Government works and to get satisfactory answers to questions.

Our confused and wasteful system that took so long to grow will take a long time to change. The place to start is at the top—in the White House.

I am reducing the size of the White House staff by nearly one third, and have asked the members of the Cabinet to do the same at the top staff level.

HEATED/Atkin: Retrenchment, Burnout, Questioning

“Will HEATED end its bias and vehemence against critics of climate exaggeration and forced energy transformation? Will Emily Atkin consider the welfare of energy consumers and taxpayers? The harms of wind, solar, and batteries? The Big Money and Big Power agenda of the Climate Industrial Complex?”

The announcement came the week before Christmas. In “A Note on the Future: Taking a Short Break, and Changing Course,” Emily Atkin of HEATED (“A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis”) announced:

In 2024, the fifth year of HEATED, we continued our mission of producing original, impactful, reader-powered journalism that holds polluters to account…. But our paid subscriber community did not grow in tandem with our free community this year. In fact, we have fewer paying subscribers now than we did at this time last year….

Happy New Year from MasterResource

Seventeen years, 3,905 posts, 980 categories, 167 authors. And the contributions read as well today as when they were written, ‘as if led by an invisible hand’. That’s worth celebrating!

Here is to a healthy and prosperous new year to our many readers!…

Stop Out-the-Door Grants and Loans, DOE!

MasterResource Turns 17

Holiday Lighting: More the Better

Two Different Holiday Wishes

Electricity Statism or Free Markets? (Kiesling shows more cards)

Enron, NYT Declare Solar ‘Competitive’ (1994)

“THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (1997 Kyoto memo)