Getting Things Done 'List'

 This week, I came across a page that had been created in the past couple of months,  which I'd describe as a page dedicated to the first hundred days of the Biden administration, and how wonderful it was.

Hundred days....hundred wonderful accomplishments.

So I spent an hour reviewing the page.

To be honest, I consider the first ten months of the administration to be dismal, and mostly things that you'd rather forget (like the Afghanistan exit plan).

But I've selected ten of these wonderful accomplishments to discuss:

1.  The Covid shots business.  I know that Biden has taken the credit, but the vast majority of the legwork to get this program up and going....was already set in 'concrete' and didn't really have much to do with the President.

2.  The 50-cut in 'carbon pollution' by 2030.  Well....carbon is not pollution (PhD folks will laugh when you use the phrase).  Promising to cut carbon?  It's like saying you promise to cut 50-percent of warts among Americans, or promise to diminish 50-percent of bear attacks in America, or promise to halt 50-percent of illegal border crossing activity.  It's a 'fake' promise that gives people a thrill....nothing more than that.

3.  The administration handed out 81-billion dollars....to reopen schools.  When you sit and think about it....school budgets are written in stone and the money never dries up because the state and county system has tax-revenue sitting there.  So the 81-billion?  It was just free money....whatever the school systems did....it certainly had nothing to do with Covid or reopening.

4.  The administration brought in the most diverse cabinet in American history.  At some point in the next decade, we will have a serious paranoid schizophrenic Secretary of State, a Secretary of Transportation gal who actively believes in bigfoot and the Loch Ness Sea Monster, and a Attorney General who has 40-percent of their body covered in tattoos.  The selling point to this is to make Americans happy over diverse stuff....even if it goes beyond your imagination.

5.  'Supported restaurant workers'.  The hint is that it helped the 'mom-and-pop' restaurants survive.  Most folks (by mid-summer 2021)  who fell into the 'mom-and-pop' theme....will tell you the money and effort was marginal, and too late. 

6.  'Fixed the White House web site to ask you for your pronoun.'   I sat and pondered over this.  For regular working-class people.....it has zero value.

7.  Brought back the Spanish language White House web site.  It's an amazing thing....if you use the right browser now.....you can convert the White House 'theme' to any language (even Russian or Finnish).  So you contracted this out....paying some guy to translate it....when Google does it for you free of charge.  

8.  'Booted deregulation'.  Basically....as Trump got rid of regulations....the Biden administration brought the regulations back into full form.  So the term ought to be de-regulated deregulation.  Yeah, its as silly as it sounds.

9.  'Restored weekly White House press conferences'.  Not to really go negative on this....but these conferences are marginally working at this point, and most journalists are critical of the messages being handed out.

10.  Announced a program to hype up a wind-energy off-shore program that would bring 135,000 jobs with it.  It's like the green energy hype of the Obama administration.....where you say something that just never comes true.  First, you'd have to get permission of states and communities to even build the off-shore generators....which may never occur. 

I look at the Biden accomplishments and basically.....there's no four or five star accomplishments that can be easily recognized by the public in the first 300-odd days.  What you have are things announced with questionable value....probably adding up to each being either a one-star or two star accomplishment.  In simple terms....people are still waiting.