I did not take the Bugoslav chair to drape it in virtue. I took it to use it. Today the rate falls again, tariffs ease again, and treasury coin goes back into infrastructure where it multiplies instead of applauding itself. That is government in a republic of adults.
Pravda offers moral theater. Vex offers menace without stewardship. I offer the only record that compounds. Lower friction. Higher capacity. Better margins. If that sounds cold, good. Cold books built the richest republic on the continent.
Judge the office by outputs, not costume changes.
- Sabine Draal, The Iron Tithe