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Looks like Bill Maher and I are on the same page this week with this GOP talking point that somehow having business experience makes someone a good candidate for president. Maher used the examples of George W. Bush, Donald Trump, and Mitt Romney's experience as CEO of Bain Capital to shoot that down during his New Rules segment on Real Time.
Half the time Business experience doesn’t mean that the person was or could be a good businessman.
Grabbing a car, taking it to a chop shop and walking away with a pocket full of money doesn’t make one an automotive expert.
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He nearly destroyed Gateway Computers when he was at the helm, and it looks like he's well on his way to doing the same thing to the state of Michigan.
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
When you lay off workers, you are killing your tax base the main source of taxes. You can't balance a budget with less income without slowing growth. The system perpetuates itself.
Trump said that since he has more money, that makes him a better businessman than Mitt Romney. So, since Trump's also had more wives, does that make him a better Mormon?
Well, he's got more experience in bankruptcies, so he'd be better at bankrupting the country... maybe thinks he'll just buy another country with the money he'd make bankrupting ours.
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Amen to Maher's saying that having business experience does not make someone good presidential (or gubernatorial) material.
Look at Florida's Governor, Rick Scott. Oh, he has business experience, all right. His hospital chain bilked Medicare and Medicaid out of heaps of taxpayer money while he was at the helm. Oh, you say (and he said)... but he wasn't aware the fraud was going on right under his nose. He says he was too busy "bringing down the cost of healthcare". Bullshit. He is either a liar or a crook, and probably both. He had to have known why and how his bottom line was so fat, and word was his underlings warned him repeatedly they were going to get in trouble. Yeah, Rick Scott knows how to get rich using other people's money.
Maybe SOME folks want the US government run like a crookedly profitable business, but I see no connection between even a businessman making money HONESTLY and running the government well. There is NO connection.
a cost of doing business. The money has to come from somewhere. Gawd forbid getting it from coming from those that already have too much.
I guess they haven't found the laws he's broken yet, and that makes what he did legal. We can only hope that someone out there is digging and will find them. But between now and then...the damage in some cases is irreversible.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
And in "corporate" crime, no individuals are gone after. His company payed record fines, and walked away (actually, he was fired by his own board of directors).
We need to have laws that enable enforcers to go after the individuals behind corporate crime, but with corporations winning big Supreme Court cases in their favor, that isn't likely.
It's so ironic that the SC decision last year granting corporations some rights previously held just by human individuals didn't also say something about corporations having some of the responsibilities (such as criminal liability for crimes) that humans have.
"Prior 'Executive' experience". "Wealth of Experience." "Formerly CEO of........" etc., etc., etc. All preeminent pre-fixed warnings of what these experts have done and are doing, and will continue to do. The finest minds in finance led us into debt-hell. And were proudly compensated for doing so. Real people for real people, nothing else will ever succeed for the benefit of the country. We have an over abundance of "Serpents."
U.S.A., Inc. As always.
I love Bill Maher, he's funny and has the freedom to tell it like it is. He's also smarter than most of his guests and doesn't mind rubbing it in their faces.
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I suppose, when it comes to these right-wing businesspeople, and their way of running the business in their charge, their mantra, as it pertains to what may be used against them, is, "Do as I say, not as I do".
All we need now is another reference to magic underwear.
I love his stuff. So cerebreal, so inteligent. After Jon Stewart he is my go to guy for news and commentary.
Bill Maher gets it bang on with this one. The point of government is not to make a profit indeed. It makes me glad that Ross Perot didn't become president, not that he had a chance to anyway. But the fact that Obama was a community organizer in the past makes him more qualified than someone who was a businessman, because that's what the spirit of government should be--to help institutions where the point isn't to make a profit. Businesses can make profits on their own.
it is in the making. My feeling is sometime this month the jobs come back and Barack gets the credit he deserves.
Does anyone, especially the media and pundits, remember that George Bush was a businessman in Texas? He was a failure at his many business adventures but that didn't stop people from voting from him. Over the years qualifications to run for public office has lessened. tremendously We are not at point of turning everything into a reality show format. That's why the media and pundits love the Palin and Trump circus,so much so that both are willing to chase them all over the country to televise their nonsense. So what if they mangle history. That's show business!
Noticeably, that's why the same media are angry at President Obama. He won't put on a "rant and rave" show for the public. Thousands of voters are demanding that he "show emotion" despite his saying that getting angry and going off the deep end won't solve the problems. Unlike Boehner, the president will show emotions by crying on cue.
I say to complainers who say a candidate with business savvy is the best to win the presidency, vote Teabegging Republican. But don't complain and demand that they all be recalled when they legislate more of your rights away, like the Republican governors and legislature are doing now. Rommey's record as a businessman is not something to write home about. He is being loose with his business dealings.
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contention with me for a long time. Government is NOT a business and should not be run like one. Wish the Dems/progressives would harp on this more. While it's true that governments employee people and manage budgets. That's where the similarities end. The over riding goal of govt vs business is completely different.
More, the Nation isn't a business or a corporation. Even more, it is the country's CEO's and business elite who have created this depression we are in. And yet more, it is that same crowd that is responsible for corrupting our politicians and courts and the instiutions in which they serve; because of that corruption, every problem we as a people face is made magnitudes worse. Romney is a sociopath whose only demonstrated business skill, that I can see, has been one of enriching himself at the expense of the companies he was suppossed to be safeguarding, at the expense of the employees who jobs he ruined and at the expense of the investors and lenders he fleeced through the device of his incompetent/malign leadership skills. The problem with our entire government is that it is populated with, and at the mercy of, those who don't understand that government isn't a business.
This is behind my personal rationale for single-payer government-administered medical insurance. As it is now, patients are denied life-saving treatments by private sector bureaucrats in the name of defending that almighty and sacred bottom line*. Maybe with universal Medicare, those same decisions will be made by government employees, but profit will not be the motive for them. I am now on Medicare, and have had no trouble with parts A & B, but have had nothing but hassles with part D, which is administered, not by the government, but by private insurers.
*I know this to be true because around fifteen years ago, I had symptoms that prompted me to suggest to my doctor that I be given an EEG to test for epilepsy. THe HMO denied the request because the cost was "not justified" (i.e., some shareholder's divitend would be reduced by a tenth of a cent). Some time later, I had a seizure while driving and killed a pedestrian. It took the death of an innocent and uninvolved person to get the HMO to agree to test me, and the epilepsy was confirmed (which was the only thing that kept me out of prison on charges of vehicular homicide - the fact that I asked for the test, was denied, but later proved correct in my suspicions).
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