[Pen-l] Dr. Freud, your slip is showing

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

This morning as I drove to work, I heard US National Public Radio's
newsreader refer to the "Asian Pacific Economic Corporation" forum.
(it's Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation.)

BTW, it looks as if Prez-elect Obama will be appointing pen-l's _bête
noire_, Larry "I'm Brilliant" Summers to lead the US federal
government's National Economic Council. That's a quite step down for
the guy, who used to stand astride the world at the Treasury and at
Harvard.

What I don't get is the point of this organization: doesn't the
President already have a Council of Economic Advisers? plus a slew of
economists at Treasury, Labor, Commerce, etc., etc.? Didn't Presidents
before Clinton I get along pretty well without the National Economic
Council? One of Obama's attractions is that (unlike the current fellow
in the White House) he seems sane. One sane thing to do would be to
get rid of unnecessary organizations.

Also, I wonder when they're going to re-paint the White House.
-- 
Jim Devine /  "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange
days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL.
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