ZT：川普教会了我们最重要的政治课程

flyrathabu

觉得还行

https://www.washingtonpost.com/o ... _term=.7bcb491a5962

Our government used to get things done. The Manhattan Project coordinated the work of more than 130,000 people  in over a dozen states. It was difficult, unprecedented — and successful. Less than four years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the go-ahead, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb.
我国政府曾经是能办成事的。曼哈顿工程动员了几十个州的13万人协调工作。这是一个前所未有和非常困难的任务，但最终成功了。罗斯福总统批准后不到4年，美国就引爆了世界上第一颗原子弹。

Today our government finds it hard just to make a website. Our newest fighter jet has already been under development for more than 15 years and it costs more than 15 times as much as the Manhattan Project (adjusted for inflation), but last year it lost a dog fight to a plane from the 1970s.
今天我国政府连一个网站都做不好。我们最新的战斗机开发用了15年以上，研发支出则超过曼哈顿工程耗资的15倍以上（已考虑通胀），而去年这东西在格斗中被证明不敌70年代的飞机。

Similar dysfunction is everywhere, at every level. One of the most dramatic examples is in the nation’s capital: Metro was a marvel when it opened in 1976, and today it’s an embarrassing safety hazard. Ticket machines don’t work; escalators are broken; the trains sometimes don’t even stay on the tracks.
类似的无能随处可见。一个最显眼的例子就在我国首都：华盛顿地铁1976年开通时候是个奇迹，但今日则是一个让人尴尬的危险源。售票机无法工作；电梯有故障，列车有时甚至会离开轨道。
Hundreds of thousands of commuters experience this failure at first hand, but nobody is accountable. Last year a Metro worker was fired for fabricating maintenance reports on the ventilation fans whose failure resulted in a passenger’s death from smoke inhalation. This year he's being reinstated, and union officials are suing Metro because they don’t think he’s being reinstated fast enough. Our dysfunctional public sector treats the loss of a government job more seriously than the loss of a person’s life.
有几十万人通勤者亲身体会过他的问题，但无人为此负责。去年，一名地铁员工伪造了通风风扇的检修报告，风扇故障随后导致一名乘客因吸入烟气身亡，这名员工后来被开除。但今年他又复职了，而工会正在起诉华盛顿地铁，因为这名员工复职用的时间过长。我们失能的公共部门把政府员工失去工作看成比一个人失去生命更严重的问题。

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) might have been secretly relieved last month when one of its own became the first US law enforcement officer with supporting the Islamic State: At least foreign subversion would supply a satisfying explanation for the system’s failures.

但华盛顿地铁管理局在其一名员工成为美国第一个被控支持伊斯兰国的执法部门成员时，私下里恐怕起码会松口气：这次是个外国敌人要为此负责，而不是自己的责任。
Instead, the explanation we hear from WMATA and from every other government program is as unsatisfying as it is simplistic: They need more money. While the presidential race isn’t over yet and won’t decide the future of Metro, it has already taught us this year’s single most important political lesson: The amount of money you spend matters far less than how you spend it.

相反，华盛顿地铁管理局给我们的解释和任何其他政府部门对出问题的项目是一样简单和令人不满的：他们需要更多的钱才行。尽管今年总统大选尚未结束，其结果对地铁也没有影响，但已经给我们上了很有意义的一课：你怎么花钱，比花多少钱重要得多。
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is our great teacher in this: He and his allies vastly outspent Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, but he won only three delegates to Trump's 1725. As The Post pointed out, Bush could have used the money he spent to buy each of his delegates 24 apartments in Trump Tower.
前佛罗里达州长布什是这一课最好的教师：他的竞选支出远超川普，但他只赢了3个代表，川普赢了1725个。正如华盛顿邮报所指出的，布什用他花的钱可以给他赢得的代表每人在川普大厦买24套公寓。

Instead of spending a fortune, Trump won the primaries by saying things that made sense to voters. His greatest heresy was to declare that government health care can work: “It’s certainly something that in certain countries works. It actually works incredibly well in Scotland. Some people think it really works in Canada. But not here, I don’t think it would work as well here.” His objection wasn’t about American culture or philosophy, but about our rotten institutions: “It could have worked in a different age.”

川普没有花多少钱，但是却说了很多引起选民共鸣的话。他的异端邪说包括公立医疗行得通这一点：“在有些国家公立医疗当然行得通。苏格兰的公立医疗非常棒，有人认为加拿大的也不错。但这里不行，我不认为这里能行”。他否定的并不是美国文化和意识形态，而是我们腐败的体制：“在从前的时代，这也许能行”。
Today we live in a financial age: The right is obsessed with tax cuts, and the left is obsessed with funding increases. Republicans joke about the incompetence of government to please wealthy donors who don’t want to pay for it; Democrats enable incompetence because they are beholden to public-sector unions that expect their members to get paid whether or not they do the job.
今天，我们生活在金融时代。右翼迷恋于减税，左翼迷恋于增加政府拨款。共和党讲各种政府无能的段子，来讨好他们的不愿交税的富人捐款者
；民主党则因为受制于要求自己员工不论干不干事都要拿钱的公务员工会而无法改变政府的无能。
Lost between the two extremes is the vast majority of citizens’ common-sense expectation that the country’s transportation, health care and defense systems should actually work. As a result of both parties ignoring competence while they fight over money, today we have the broken D.C. Metro system, the hobbled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and justified public skepticism of government health care.
两个极端之间大部分公民真正合理的要求则被置之不理：这个国家的交通、医疗和国防应该能正常运转。由于两党只顾争钱，对政府低能的漠视，我们就有了崩溃的华盛顿地铁、残废的F35战斗机和公众对于公立医疗不无道理的疑虑。
The establishment doesn’t want to admit it, but Trump’s heretical denial of Republican dogma about government incapacity is exactly what we need to move the party — and the country — in a new direction. For the Republican Party to be a credible alternative to the Democrats’ enabling, it must stand for effective government, not for giving up on government.
建制派不愿承认这一点，但川普敢于拒绝共和党关于政府必然低效这一教条正是让共和党乃至美国走上一个新方向的第一步。共和党要想成为政府低效的罪魁民主党之外一个可能的选择，就要支持改善政府的效率，而不是完全放弃政府。

I believe that effective government will require less bureaucracy and less rulemaking; we may need to have fewer public servants, and we might need to pay some of them more. At a minimum, we should recognize that success cannot be reduced to the overall size of the budget: Spending money and solving problems are not the same thing.

我相信，一个有效的政府需要更少的官僚和法规；我们需要减少公务员数量，但也许需要给其中有些人加薪。至少，我们应该认识到项目成功与否并不只取决于预算规模：花钱和解决问题不是一个事情。
When Americans lived in an engineering age rather than a financial one, they mastered far bigger tasks for far less money. We can’t go back in time, but we can recover the common sense that guided our grandparents who accomplished so much. One elementary principle is accountability: We can’t expect the government to get the job done until voters can say both to incompetent transit workers and to the incompetent elites who feel entitled to govern: “You’re fired.”
在美国人生活在工程师时代而非金融时代的时候，他们用了少得多的钱办成了多得多的事。我们无法穿越回过去，但我们起码能恢复让我们祖父们取得如此巨大成就的理性。其中最基本的一条就是问责：政府要办成事，选民必须对无能的地铁员工或高高在上的精英说：“你被开除了”（川普在真人秀“学徒”中的最爱说的一句）。

作者为企业家、特朗普支持者Peter Thiel

leekai

有道理，可惜很多精英分子装看不见

然后203

虽然川普实际上无法实现他说的那些话，但那些话确实能引起普通美国民众的共鸣。

有朋友说川普是张角一类的人物。

longcheng

这是一条剑鱼！

老科学的家

如果老川把裁汰政府冗员提高效率作为政纲之一，我会多支持他一点。不过这似乎不是他的重点，他宣扬的是，驱逐墨墨，建墙，标记穆斯林，和中国贸易战。这些抓眼球。整改政府是个累活，功在当代利在千秋，却容易吃力不讨好，易招骂名易失败。这篇文章，我看作是一个川普支持者对老川的期盼，以及想象。

老科学的家

有些大实话，说出来是会掉粉的，比如，美国人，你们日子过得太好啦，凭什么干同样的工作，你的工资是一个中国人的几倍？你们要更艰苦奋斗才行。药厂，保险公司，医院，你们都太黑心啦，无论是地雷阵，还是万丈深渊，老子和你们死磕。类似的可以有很多，大嘴如老川也不会去碰的。另外希拉拉今日健康出状况，老川最后说不定真当选啦。这真不是美国之福，但也不会太糟，也就是消磨四年而已，老川的那些抓眼球政策不会成真的。不过万一他当选，对天朝那是利好啊。莫非冥冥中天佑中华？

东湖珞珈

有一个板块叫做“网林摘葩”，最合适这种转贴的文章
如果是自己翻译的话那是另外一回事

flyrathabu

东湖珞珈 发表于 2016-9-12 02:14
有一个板块叫做“网林摘葩”，最合适这种转贴的文章
如果是自己翻译的话那是另外一回事 ...

帮忙代转，我找去哪发布的时候，是看到首页一个标注转贴在这里，所以才跟着转到这里的

猫元帅

不要老觉得外国的月亮比美国的圆。

我们既不能妄自尊大，也不能妄自菲薄。

不要动不动就说体制问题，我美利坚自有国情在此。

民主，只有民主，才是美国精神的精髓，才是美国成功的本质原因。