Yeah good points. As long as there is a government, what is best is a monarch. Unfortunately our empire is so overgrown and gives all the wrong kinds of power to the president, all the wrong incentives, and very few of the good ones, the ones that would tend to allow him to really get things in line, like selling off assets and cutting bureaucracy unilaterally. He can do some of that, but not all. He's using what little management they offer him though.