CEO Bush

[307 MMS]

Is it just me or? How many of these people in either party know how the corporate world works? I would suspect, many of them. This Harvard MBA grad(hmmm)supposedly likes to run things like a CEO. If he was in the real corporate world, he'd have been toast by now! Why does it have to be so different in our government? Hell, there's obviously so much more at stake. Can't the repukes see this? The fact that he's still there at all is appalling! And, when done...this asswipe gets offices and Secret Service protection for the rest of his miserable life, plus health care and a pension paid by...guess who? The American taxpayer!!! Something is seriously wrong with the system of crimes and fuckups and punishment for people at this level in government. The ultimate zenith of the Peter Principle gets to go bye-bye, leave a serious shit storm in his wake and we get to pay him and clean up the mess. HELLO...is anybody home!

[napi21]

1. Actually, heIS running a lot of the Countries business like a CEO!

You have to remember, the primary job of a CEO is THE BOTTOM LINE for it's stockholders. Shrub & many of his RW friends see ONLY THEMSELVES as stock holders. That's why all the tax cuts for the rich, and relaxing of the regs on Corps. To that group of people, he's doing a fine job!

That's what makes Gov't different than private industry. One is in the business ofmaking $$ for the stockholders, the other is in the business to better the lives of it's citizens...ALL OF THEM!

[307 MMS]

2. Naive

I guess I'm a bit naive when it comes to the corporate world I was introduced to. I used to work for a fuel cell manufacturer and our CEO was "supposedly" about the 3 Ps...People, Planet, Profit. Notice profit last. But to agree with your response, if they get the reins and abuse them, well it's up to us. It's like tryin' to turn an aircraft carrier around, a long slow process as an abstract analogy. But...why can't we add to our system, a method other than impeachment, not that he doesn't deserve it!!! that can oust these total fuckups faster? We need to push for that, too.

[A Simple Game]

4. He is doing such a good job for his shareholders

(not stakeholders) that he even has the workers(middle class and poor) borrowing money in their, their children, and their grand children's names to give to the shareholders.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. You kidding? If * were a CEO of a corporation, there would be

such a plethora of shareholder actions against the corporation for the damage done to the value of their stock, there wouldn't be any time to conduct business.

[pat_k]

5. Yup. I wonder if citizens (the owners/shareholders) can sue Members of the House for dereliction?

You hit the nail on the head. Any board of directors would be sued by shareholders for neglience for failing to remove a CEO (and his/her team) that posed such an clear and present danger to the existence of the "company."

Which gets me thinking. . .

Just as a board has the duty and the power to defend against such threats to a corporation, we have charged Congress with the duty to defend against threats to the nation that come from within the halls of power, and we have given them the power to do it: impeachment.

I wonder if citizens -- the owners/shareholders -- can sue Members of the House for dereliction?

Perhaps we should be looking for a creative lawyer out there to get on the case -- a http://dictionary.law.com/default2.asp?selected=2267&bold= ">writ of mandamus perhaps?

[thingfisher]

6. We shou;d be able to instigate a vote of no confidence like

a parliament has. This might help keep those in power from straying to far afield. Plus it would be a way of aborting truly dangerous administrations mid term rather than suffering through years of lame duck leadershio and wrangling.

Just a thought.

[sutz12]

7. You have a rather inflated opinion of the competence of the private sector.

CEO's commonly get away with all sorts of crap. Bush sucked in the private sector and he sucks as a President.

In both cases he was bailed out by his cronies, much like what happens in corporate Amerika. CEO's get all kinds of cover for their fuckups. What we see indicted and convicted is an infintessimal part of the real problem.

[mentalsolstice]

8. Think Enron! Need I say more? n/t

[BrokenBeyondRepair]

9. incompetence is often rewarded in the corp world

success for this piece of shit isn't measured by what us peasants think..

[Greyhound]

10. Hereditary executive positions are quite common in corporate amerika

and he has faithfully run the country exactly like most Texas corporations are run, bleed the business for every dime you can wring out of it then give yourself and all your friends one last, gigantic, payday and then walk away. Come to think of it, it is very similar to the way the Mafia operates.