Is Bush typical of CEOs in the corporate world?

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Is this what's going on in our business world? CEOs getting up before the media (and even judges) and lying about the state of the corporation; lying about their involvement in conspiracies, accentuating the positive, ignoring the negatives, counting on keeping the public ignorant...

Does anybody else see the similarities?

[notadmblnd]

1. I'd have to say it is SOP for corporate heads

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14. Do you think that out think tanks will pick up on this and realize

that we know how they operate and don't like what we see? Do you think they'll have the afterthought to rethink the path we're taking?

[liberal N proud]

2. Making decisions that will eventually lead to the destruction of the

company?
Yeah, I see this happening in the companies in America today.

It is almost as if the master plan called for the complete destruction of the corporate and government systems.

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15. Someone always said that capitalism would build the weapon

that would eventually destroy it.

[Zynx]

3. Most CEOs would sell their own mother to increase profit margins.

[Iris]

4. This is why I hate when people say government should be

run like a business. Are people really that clueless about how destructive and inefficient most businesses are?

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16. This has been my rallying call for years.

So sick of the MBAs who turned their noses down at us because they thought they had a better way. They're only copycats. Not a real thinker in the bunch.

[boobooday]

5. Yep.

Remember, he is a Harvard MBA (Harvard should hang its head in shame).

The heroic capitalist businessman, a character created by 80's propaganda (remember the worship of Lee Iacocca and Jack Welch?) has turned out to be a depraved sleazeball.

What a shock.

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17. I bought Lee Iacocca's book!

What a pretender. He didn't do shit without public assistance and if he had been more honest about it, he would have written that government had played a big role in his success.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Short term gain is the ONLY principle

"Enlightened self-interest", my ass. Enlightenment is dead.

The next poll or quarterly statement is the only thing that matters.

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18. I once asked, "Are there no long term thinkers in the Republican party?"

And an astute DUer replied, "There are no short-term thinkers in the Republican party."

[Canuckistanian]

21. Except for this bunch

They seem to be undoing decades of Republican work in a five-year peiod. This, I think, will be their downfall.

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7. junior speaks for all corporations. After all he is the one that has

been crowned King by them. And he rewards them handsomely.

Being a corporate lawyer from the finest school in the world is like a pig having his very own trough.

[zeemike]

8. No he is not the CEO

He is the MSS, the Major Stockholders Son
Dick Chaney is CEO and Rummy one of his management team members.

[rock]

9. If you mean incompetent then yes

The MBA mentality has rotted the brains of our top management.

[cali]

10. Funny you should say that

My dad who owned a relatively small manufacturing company had as his particular pet peeeve, MBAs, especially Harvard MBAs. He absolutely refused to hire one. He'd agree about the state of the country's CEOs. He thought they were greedy, amoral assholes. My dad never took a salary larger than 10x the pay of his lowest paid employee. His offices in both the plants he owned, were not larger or fancier than the other offices. He was environmentally sensitive. His employees were incredibly loyal. His greatest concern was the gap between rich and poor. He could be an incredible asshole in his personal life, but he deserved a lot of credit for how he ran his business.

[lectrobyte]

12. I'd love to see that 10x rule in place as a law. Something like

that might actually provide some "trickle down".

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19. The key to the Democratic success is to give small business

owners a break. A real break. Not the way the Republicans have been doing it.

[anarch]

11. no...most of them are at least slightly intelligent. and coherent

Bush is more typical of those corporate "leaders" who gained their position not through merit, but through nepotism.

[Jose Diablo]

13. Yes, they use people for personal benefit

It's the mark of a conservative, to personally profit from others work. It's all about material benefits for the few, at the top.

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20. I hope they get exposed.