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Observing the daily give and take between the new POTUS, his fledgling administration, Congress, the uncooperative left and those on the sideline in the MSM is remindful of the phrase: "What we've got here is failure to communicate." 

According to Wikipedia the phrase “is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, spoken in the movie first by Strother Martin (as the Captain, a prison warden) and later, abridged, by Paul Newman (as Luke, a stubborn prisoner.)”

The analogy arose because of the apparent incapability's of those mired in a behemoth such as the U.S. Congress, to comprehend or contend with a free-thinking deal-maker. A major aspect of the dichotomy stems from the virtually polar positions from which their perspective emanates.      

In essence, the situation’s remindful of a personal experience in which a monstrous telecommunications organization decided it would be advantageous to own a financial services provider, to enhance equipment sales. 

Unable to develop the entity themselves, an acquisition seemed the best and fastest route to accomplishment. Which is why our organization, by far the largest and most successful of its type, became their choice.

At the time, what had set our endeavor apart from the rest was our continual capability to achieve our greatest objective: customer satisfaction. 

Because of our size, expertise and technological acumen we had been able to create, design and develop methods and techniques for financial decision-making, transactional simplification and customer communication far ahead of, and greatly superior to, anything offered by any others in our industry segment. And that’s where the comparison to today’s Trump/Congress issues arises.

In our case, after the acquisition by this major entity it quickly became clear that they had no clue whatsoever as to what we did, how we did it or how to manage what they’d bought. As a result, they sought to bring us in line with others familiar to them with in order to insure that they themselves could “control” our operation and its efforts.  

Therefore, in very short order, we had another layer of management overseeing our personnel who were now forced to slow down enough to educate those who were supposed to be in charge of whatever operations were involved. At the same time, frequent meetings were organized to “review” performance of all types which prior to our acquisition ran like a well-oiled machine.

And eventually, the additional time taken to perform basic functions, the drain of overlapping, unneeded managerial types along with a bureaucratic mentality foisted on all by the plodding parent organization turned the former racehorse into a withering nag that soon functioned like everyone else in the business. 

Although the business model discussed above applies to private enterprise, many of the comparisons to the current administration's beginnings have true validity. Which means that Trump faces very similar circumstances. The most interesting of them being his continual attempts to create diversions and keep dissenters off balance, whereas that gives him time to have others concentrate on actually getting things done. 

The only drawback in the scenario, however, is that having to operate at two levels, one purely functional and the other a time-consuming effort to deal with unnecessary bureaucratic and press-related nonsenses, is a quite wearying process. Which means that there’s a real likelihood that at some point, Trump might decide it’s simply not worth the effort. And in our case, that's the conclusion most of us reached.

That's it for today folks.

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