Carpet exec named as manufacturing czar

[Cocoa]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=4788092

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush plans to nominate a carpet manufacturing executive, Albert Frink, to serve as U.S. manufacturing czar, the White House said on Thursday, a position the administration created to help reverse heavy manufacturing job losses.

Frink is executive vice president and co-founder of Fabrica International of Santa Ana, California. He would have to receive confirmation from the U.S. Senate.

The White House's first choice for the position withdrew from consideration after Democrats accused him of outsourcing U.S. jobs to China.

[DS1]

1. Lick carpet! Vote no on Frink!!

[Justitia]

2. So much easier to "sweep it under rug" this way?? -eom

[eyesroll]

3. Why are datelines coming out of Crawford?

For. Fuck's. Sake.

The world is falling apart and * is clearing brush.
I am not allowed to take this many "working vacations."
</rant>

[rman]

4. Amazing. He picked the wrong carpet manufacturer.

Since it seems that the biggest carpet manufacturer in the world

is in fact an exception to the rule;

"Interface is the world's largest commercial carpet maker, it revolutionized the modern office environment with its modular carpet tile products. The owner Ray Anderson had an environmental epiphany and reorganized his 1.4 billion dollar company, reducing its environmental footprint by one third."

Ray Anderson, Interface Inc.:
“One day, early in this journey, it dawned on me that the way I have been running Interface, is the way of the plunderer. Plundering something that is not mine, something that belongs to every creature on earth.
And I said to myself, My goodness, the day must come when this is illegal - when plundering is not allowed. It must come. So I said to myself, my goodness, someday people like me will end up in jail.”

“If we are successful, we’ll spend the rest of our days harvesting yesteryear’s carpets and other petrochemically derived products, and recycling them into new materials; and converting sunlight into energy; with zero scrap going to the landfill and zero emissions into the ecosystem.
And we will be doing well … very well … by doing good. That’s the vision.”

From the documentary “The Corporation”
http://thecorporation.com
http://thecorporation.tv

That documentary may be different then you think it is. From the same documentary (and this is not about Interface):

"PERSONALITY DIAGNOSTICS CHECKLIST
World Health Organisation ICD-10
Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV

Callous unconcern for the feelings of others
Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships
Reckless disregard for the safety of others
Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning others for profit
Incapacity to experience guilt
Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours

Subject: The Corporation
Diagnosis of personality disorder: PSYCHOPATH"