ANOTHER CRISIS OUR SUPPLY CHAIN AND ROLE PLAYING CABINET MEMBERS

 BUTTIGIEG FACILE FOLLY 

Our well spoken, so self-assured and well-rested Secretary of Transportation who has been absent from his desk (piled high with disaster warnings)  since mid-August) just gave a facile and fallacious response to the SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS.  We have all been shocked by the  empty shelves in our retail stores, the images of cargo ships swarming like bees at a hive, attempting  to unload their freight in our coastal ports,  the quadrupling of shipping costs per container, the shortage and high prices of fuel, and the shortage of long-haul truck drivers so vital to our struggling economy.  According to this former small town mayor, with no experience at all in any form of transportation  ( except perhaps personal upward transport for self aggrandizement and higher  pay scale):

 “It’s all due to Covid 19” and “will disappear when we get past the pandemic”.   This is a mammoth crisis that will affect our economy; our health and well being and the nation’s security .  But the Biden team apparently has no answer or plan 

I  was not  surprised at the  facile folly of this newly minted  cabinet member who expressed many just as vapid positions as a far left “shock” presidential candidate. His two month long absence  from the front ranks of the struggling Biden administration  probably accounted for the fact that he did  not use Biden’s favorite  catch-all excuse for just about every recent catastrophe: “President Trump did it”  or, “ it due to climate change”. 

We knew from as far back the 2020 campaign that old “Uncle Joe”, who spent most if the campaign hidden away in the basement of his Delaware mansion,  his voice muffled and face covered in a black mask was not going to be a “hands on president”.  With his shortcomings in mind his handlers and controllers should have at least insured that those they put into authority at key cabinet posts were competent and professional rather than simply using the perks and emoluments of high government office as they “play the role” of government administrators.  .

Sadly both Biden and his cabinet are infected with a similar malaise  inexperience and incompetent “role players”.   Poor Buttigieg may get criticized but is just the the latest most egregious example of how not to run a government