Changes

There are knowledgeable people, including FDR, who warned against public unions. One of the reasons for this was that while private unions negotiate with company money, public unions work with tax payer money. Trump is used to negotiating with people who put their own resources at risk and now he faces elected officials who are risking taxpayer money. This requires a different strategy and he is recognizing those differences. He is reacting similar to the way a business man does. As new information presents itself he changes his views. In business that is considered wise but in politics it is called flip-flopping. One of my favorite writers, Emerson, said “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”. Another big difference between business and politics is that in the former the goal is results and in the later it is credit. If Trump gets results his methods will become lost in the weeds and if he doesn’t he will be held accountable. This is the incentive for the democrats to block him in every way possible. That seems to be the way our government operates. Another business asset is delegation. Over the past several decades wars have been fought by politicians in Washington but Trump has turned over the military to his generals and this is an important change.