Republican buisness people running for office, have we not been down this road before? RANT

[Peacetrain]

Bush was a business person running for office. Remember all the hooting about his MBA.. forget the fact that every business he touched, he ran into the ground..

But here we go again. Ex-CEO's running for office to get the government back on track.

That is the last thing we need.

The United States government is not a buisness to play around with. We have almost been bankrupted twice in my lifetime alone, by first Reagan and then Bush the second, trying to lay a buisness model over a democratically elected government.

What we need in office are people who are experienced in government, not buisness!

I often wonder why people keep falling for that old chestnut, especially in the media about needing outsiders.. who have no experience in government.. to run government.

Business types are autocratic.. Democracy does not play into how you run an effective buisness. The very last thing we need is the buisness model to run government.

Enough is enough with inexperienced buisness people.

Give me someone who has worked in the system and understands it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. the voters probably can't afford to feed their families yet they will vote for these rich people

Somehow I think the poor seem to think by voting for someone rich they may get richer. Around here there have been many foreclosures and people are up to their ears in debt yet out they go to vote for these creatures.

[Peacetrain]

3. It really makes me begin to wonder about cognitive abilities of the average person

This inability to connect the dots..

Every massive fail in government we have had in the past 50 years has been because people want to run a government like a buisness.

Most businesses fail.. and even the big guys go off the cliff after so many years.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. they are quick to blame the government if they lose their job though

shedding jobs through greed so the company can still make a profit and then these dodos don't have healthcare. Yet they complain about the government's health care rreform. Perhaps these people need to take classes on reality.

[Jennicut]

2. Not to mention that many of the business types have ruined the businesses they worked for.

Case in point is Carly Fiorina.

[Peacetrain]

4. Absolutely.. yep that is the last thing we need.

But they will gnash at the bit about a community organizer.. which is exactly what government is.. organizing groups..

[Jennicut]

5. Yes, and then they will ruin government too.

[Peacetrain]

6. BINGO!

[proudohioan]

7. I couldn't agree with you more!! n/t

[Peacetrain]

9. Its amazing isn't it.. How the right keeps digging up the same failed model

[Cirque du So-What]

10. You would think they'd have learned

after the example set by our first (p)resident with an MBA - Arbusto W. Fuckstick.

[Peacetrain]

11. I was just reading about Carly Fiorina in another op

Let me cross reference that

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8528053

Just plain scary

EDIT TO ADD...(From the above link)

"In early January 2005, the Hewlett-Packard board of directors discussed with Fiorina a list of issues that the board had regarding the company's performance.<36> The board proposed a plan to shift her authority to HP division heads, which Fiorina resisted.<37> A week after the meeting, the confidential plan was leaked to the Wall Street Journal.<38> Less than a month later, the board brought back in Tom Perkins and forced Fiorina to resign as chairman and chief executive officer of the company.<39> The company's stock jumped on news of Fiorina's departure.<40> Under the company's agreement with Fiorina, which was characterized as a golden parachute by some, she was paid slightly more than twenty million dollars in severance.<41> When Fiorina became CEO in July, 1999, HP's stock price was $52 per share, and when she left 5 1/2 years later in February, 2005, it was $21 per share—a loss of over 60% of the stock's value.<42> During this same time period, HP competitor Dell's stock price increased from $37 to $40 per share.<43><44>"