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Is Rick Perry the dumbest appointed secretary ever?

Posted on 7/7/17 at 2:29 pm
Posted by FunroePete
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Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 7/7/17 at 2:29 pm
Infamously, He wanted to cut the department while he was running for president and then forgot he wanted to do that.

LINK rick perry thought he was going to be a global oil and gas ambassador

And recently

Taylor Kuykendall @taykuy·Jul 6
DOE Rick Perry at coal plant:"Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand. You put the supply out there and the demand will follow."

He doesn't know how supply and demand works

The DOE has a long lineage of incredibly smart secretaries and then we get a guy who made a 2.5 in ag science at A&M

Edit: downvotes from aggies
Edit2: poli board is dumber than I thought
This post was edited on 7/7/17 at 5:55 pm
Posted by Quidam65
Q Continuum
Member since Jun 2010
19312 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 2:30 pm to
DeVos is clearly the stupidest. And she has no prior experience doing anything but fund-raising.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
27750 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 2:33 pm to
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He doesn't know how supply and demand works


Apparently neither did Steve Jobs because he kind of said the same thing and did it.

It's called supply side economics, e.g.; the customer does not know what he or she wants until you tell them
Posted by notsince98
KC, MO
Member since Oct 2012
18080 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 2:37 pm to
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He doesn't know how supply and demand works


He isn't completely wrong. To start with there cannot be a demand for a product that doesn't exist. You have to supply a product and if it is successful and well done the demand for it will grow.

Demand can only exist when there is no supply if talking about generic ideas/needs and not specific products.
Posted by HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
Member since Feb 2017
12458 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 2:42 pm to
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He doesn't know how supply and demand works


Apparently it is YOU who doesn't understand supply and demand.

If you have multiple sources of energy available and once source has been priced out of the market by artificial means (government regulations) and then you remove those regulations thereby allowing producers to produce at a price that is cheaper than the alternatives then of course the demand for that product will go up.


Allow me to simplify so that liberals can try to keep up.

Let's say Bob grows apples for a living

Now let's say Tom grows Kiwis for a living.

Now, let's say apples are cheaper to grow and distribute, but the government believing that kiwis are better decides to put a prohibitive tax on apples. making apples cost 3X as much as kiwis.

Now obviously Bob is going to lose customers to Tom over this, as planned. Because who wants to pay 3X more for their fruit?

How is Bob going to react to this lack of demand? Of course he's going to cut the supply. So we can say that the government regulations resulted in a lack of apple supply, yes?

Of course we can.

So, if we then remove the regulations Bob is going to start growing apples again, And what happens if Bob starts growing apples again and they are cheaper than Kiwis as they were before the regulations? Oh thats right the supply of apples at the store creates a demand for those apples.


Posted by ShortyRob
Member since Oct 2008
82116 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 3:07 pm to
quote:

:"Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand. You put the supply out there and the demand will follow."
Not a great sentence

quote:

He doesn't know how supply and demand works
Something tells me that this applies to you too. Because, I suspect you think something about it that many laymen believe that isn't actually so.

So hey. Tell me how it works in relation to his statement and why you consider his statement dumb.

I look forward to the humor.
Posted by Zach
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Member since May 2005
112623 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 3:13 pm to
I'm going with Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.



'The Pope created AIDS'

'I like Eric Clapner.'

'We need to move money from cancer research to AIDS research. Because old people die from cancer and that's good for social security because they're taking it out. Young people die from AIDS and that's bad because they're paying it in."



This post was edited on 7/7/17 at 3:15 pm
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 3:14 pm to
Wasn't jeh Johnson secretary of something?

Wasn't john Kerry sec state?

Is 2016 not part of "ever"?
Posted by TX Tiger
at home
Member since Jan 2004
35662 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 3:18 pm to
quote:

Is Rick Perry the dumbest appointed secrtary ever?
I love how he was establishment enough to be invited to the Bilderberg meetings and is now in the anti-establishment (wink, wink) Trump Administration.




He'ssss ssssuch a ssssssweety.
This post was edited on 7/7/17 at 3:23 pm
Posted by RobbBobb
Matt Flynn, BCS MVP
Member since Feb 2007
27972 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 3:22 pm to
Wow, it's almost like Loretta Lynch didn't meet with the spouse of a target on a tarmac?
Posted by Quarterite
The Lower Quarter
Member since Oct 2016
959 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 3:26 pm to
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Is Rick Perry the dumbest appointed secretary ever?


No question the guy has a room temperature IQ, but he's not even the dumbest appointee in tRump's cabinet (pick one from among DeVos, Carson, and of course Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III), much less the dumbest ever.
Posted by Jyrdis
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Member since Aug 2015
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Posted on 7/7/17 at 3:42 pm to
quote:

You put the supply out there and the demand will follow."


Posted by Lou Pai
Member since Dec 2014
28150 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 4:18 pm to
He's blowing smoke up their asses but I actually don't see that much of a problem with that statement. Why do you think LNG production and transport is so huge now?

Really not that controversial of a statement unless you are an academic dipshit who enjoys splitting hairs over demand vs. quantity demanded.
Posted by Cruiserhog
Little Rock
Member since Apr 2008
10460 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 4:20 pm to
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FunroePete


he didnt even know his department ran our nuclear grid and capabilities.
This post was edited on 7/7/17 at 4:21 pm
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
53128 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 4:21 pm to
No you're the dumbest secretary ever
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 5:41 pm to
For what energy could be, he's a black eye for trump. Dolt tech.
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26993 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 6:03 pm to
quote:

Is Rick Perry the dumbest appointed secretary ever?


Hell no.

People my age usually remember James Watt on the 4th of July.
Posted by ladyluckUGA
Member since Feb 2014
6368 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 6:09 pm to
Apparently u know nothing of the previous Secretary Moniz. Smh
Posted by tarzana
TX Hwy 6--Brazos River Backwater
Member since Sep 2015
26364 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 6:22 pm to
Rick Perry is, well a certified nincompoop.

Oops, Texas.
Posted by MastrShake
SoCal
Member since Nov 2008
7281 posts
Posted on 7/7/17 at 6:45 pm to
never forget that when Perry was governor of Texas he willfully ignored evidence that Cameron Todd Willingham was innocent of murder and executed him anyway.

LA Times

he tried to execute several mentally handicapped people as well.

I dont know if its as simple as saying he's "dumb", but there is very definitely something profoundly wrong with him
This post was edited on 7/7/17 at 6:46 pm
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