"Trump’s speech wraps up a weeklong infrastructure push designed to ramp up support for his effort to rebuild U.S. roads, bridges and other public works. "
Danger ahead?????
"The White House will also establish a “Council of Environmental Quality” to clarify lines of authority and streamline federal, state and local procedures."
I would applaud this........If it did not come from Trump! The permitting process is at a fork in the road. So is our entire complex system of government law, rules and regulations. So is our monetary and health care system. They are all old, complex systems that are failing under their own weight of complexity. The transformation of industrial age systems to the information age is a painful born again birthing process. To be born again the old system must die.
It is the Information Age and all Industrial Age information systems are transitioning to Information Age Structures.
It is a crises with a fork in the road. Never let a good crises go to waste.
One fork in the road says: Get rid of all the rules and regulations. Get rid of government that creates them, manages them and adjudicate them.
The other fork in the road says that the current information structure is the product of our natural intelligence for creating information structures before there were new Information Age tools and infrastructure systems to do it. Those tools simplify the management of complexity. There has been is a great amount of our best human intelligence invested in the creation of a mammoth amount of data relationship complexity on paper leading up to the Information Age.
The "throw out the rules" fork would throw out the baby with the bathwater. Much to the financial advantage of predators that would gain substantially at the public common good that governance promotes. This fork promotes the benefit of the few.
The other fork leads to an Information Age restructure of the entire complexity of public and private governance eliminating dysfunctional relationships and strengthening functional ones from the bottom up and the top down. This fork promotes the common good for the benefit of the many. It creates a system that not only works efficiently but how it works is easily understood.
Coming from Trump it is plain to see, written on the wall, that the baby will be thrown out with the bath water and the common good will continue to suffer for the benefit of the few. In the same mode in which he was elected, the general public that will suffer from this gift to the few will applaud the gift he gives to the few.
The gift of eliminating rules and regulations given to the bloated non productive financial sector benefiting the few is the same gift that Big Business in the business of producing non-financial goods and services wants. Big Business has restructured itself from top to bottom using Information Age tools efficiently integrating business practises and creating efficiencies measured in profits.
Government has restructured its entire governance information system slowly compared to the private sector and has primarily focused that restructuring using Information Age tools at the public interface level and internally at the analogous internal public servant level. It is at that internal public employee level that they are struggling under the burden of an Industrial Age information system and all of its complexities that burden efficient operation.
There is much attention being given to the dire need for physical infrastructure investment. It is easy to see and feel when a pot hole is hit. A bridge falls down. A municipal water system delivers bad water. There is an equal and even greater need to update the essence of governance infrastructure law rules and regulations Information Management System that serve the public welfare and common good as much as roads, bridges and water systems.
Vital Information System infrastructure and its need for total infrastucture replacement, revision and maintenance is not so easy to see. What can easily be seen in pounds of paper and cost per page are its failures. Simple minded solutions of throwing out the sound and valid reasons for the existence of governance law will doom us because governance that protects the public at the expense of private sector will be eliminated.
Information Age systems storms into our life quickly and with great impact when they are new technology applied to create systems and things that never existed before. The impact of Information Age technology is slower when they must contend with established well entrenched systems heavily invested in both Industrial Age management systems and/or the means of production that is the application of that system. Institutionally, Government Systems are the most well entrenched Industrial Age system that continues to operate on an unrestructured old school system.
The link at the top concludes with a statement by senators that an infrastructure update is already in progress. It is Fast 21
"And a bipartisan duo in the Senate even pointed out that there are already a number of streamlining tools available, including a federal permitting council that was included in the last highway bill, while other new streamlining provisions have yet to be enacted. There is also a permitting dashboard for federal infrastructure projects that already exists, and it's unclear how Trump's proposal would differ.
“We are concerned that your Administration is not making use of important tools Congress has given it to accomplish this goal," Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) wrote in a letter to Trump on Thursday. "It is perplexing that the Administration has not taken full advantage of the powerful tools Congress gave it in FAST-41 it to accomplish those goals."
Fast 41 was enacted into law in 2015.
Is Trump attempting to take credit for something initiated by the prior administration?
Or:
Is he proposing something new that throws the baby out with the bath water.
Is Fast 41 a fork in the road to benefit governance for the public benefit with the other fork in the road something new under the guise of reform to benefit the few at the expense of the public?
This needs some study.
The bigger issue is bringing an old school Industrial Age system of governance into the Information Age to benefit the common good of the many and protect us all from the abuse of the few.
Yes, indeed, there already exists a Federal Permitting Council established by law.
It looks to me like a band aid on the problem of governance Information Age infrastructure reform.
New Information Age technology conflicts with old Industrial Age system of law.
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