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Promises Baloney

 It is fascinating when people in corporate life and public servants make outlandish promises to sheep that they command or supposedly serve.

California governor makes a public announcement to phase out gasoline powered vehicle sales by 2035.

Really?  Genius?  How? Why?

Never mind those questions.  He will obviously have moved on from his current job or worse be dead.  He does not care what he said in 2020.  Who would remember anyway?

Covid is more front and center right now.

See that is part of the charm offensive.  Say something outrageous and news bite worthy and rely on idiotic citizens to forget after the voting is done.  Clearly there are always distractions and memory is not what it used to be.  Besides with idiotic new distractions like the newest phone or fires or earthquakes who has time to dwell on who said what when.

So go forth and set moronic goals that no one is likely to adhere to because there is no path to get there from here.

Remember high speed rail and the billions the predecessor so callously spent?  We got zilch.  It was a train to nowhere to begin with.  It was supposed to go to Bakersfield from San Francisco.  Really?  Why? How? 

I have seen this in corporate America too.  Some new yo yo manager takes over an organization and comes up with some BS five year plan.  At the average churn rate of reorgs every two years he /she knows they do not have to back it up with any meaningful stats or plans to get there.  You are the idiot if you believe everything that is on a slide on screen.

Meantime you get paid handsomely for showing what is possible if and only if....  Oh yeah!

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