This government (Democrats led by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the other morons who try to operate their brains at sub zero temperatures) remind me exactly of the last company I worked for that went under. They sold the place actually to another company who was looking to make themselves more attractive to a suitor that they themselves had on the line because they too were in serious decline. Common practice for dumping your business.
I'll try to describe it as quickly as I can..
The company I used to work for started out around 1980 with a few highly motivated individuals that worked tirelessly at all hours, all as 'partners', working to create a firm that they could be proud of and that would be highly profitable, and possibly end up in an IPO situation where they would all get rich, like the folks at Microsoft or Google actually accomplished. This was a software company selling a packaged software solution to product distribution companies.
As time went on they continued to collect what they termed as 'A players', and these folks actually were. All were invited into the 'partners group' which afforded little extra in compensation but provided status within the organization and the chance to work a lot harder than everyone else.
When I came on board around 1989, there were around 18 partners. Truly talented individuals that in spite of management, got the job done and kept the customer's businesses running. To make a long story a lot shorter, around 1998, about 90% of the partners were convinced that there would never be an IPO and the profit opportunities were drying up faster than spit in Death Vally in July so they left to start their own company, which they sold not long after for around 18 million I believe. (Not bad and more than this place got by a long shot).
The company was stagnant, obviously content to sell 8 or 10 projects a year, collect a million in time and materials billings on each, then give a couple hundred grand back in arbitration before moving on to the next pigeon. All because management had it's head up it's ass and refused to do the things that would provide the path to volume sales and all the rest of the fruit.
The steep slide into oblivion started unnoticed the day following the partners departure. With the people gone who actually accomplished things, and management arrogant and ignorant enough to believe it was they who had been responsible for 17+ years of good times and profit believed they could simply take the reins in a little tighter and all would be well in no time. Wrong. Management were idiots who would be lucky to hold jobs as clerks somewhere.
Within two years the place was a caricature and a sad joke and the owners ought to be kissing the ground every day knowing they dumped that place on someone else about 10 minutes before it became obvious to anyone that it's value was actually less than zero. The A Players had left, and the 4th string was on the field. Maybe the 8th string.
This is exactly what is happening in our government today. The obama and the democrat 'leadership' in congress are so arrogant and ignorant that they believe that They need to steer the ship. It's obvious every time obama gives a speech and every other word is either 'me' or 'I'. By doing so they are showing their lack of intelligence and experience. If I were president I would be challenging corporate America to accomplish this task, as they have the expertise to get it done. All government can do is provide the foundation for them to get it done. Mainly tax cuts and incentives.
Successful administrations realize that capitalism and free industry are the engine that has driven America for over 200 years to become the single super power in the world. They simply give free enterprise what it needs and they stay the hell out of the way. The two states who are actually growing their economies, even in this cancer sickened economic state - Texas and Alaska - employ the philosophy that I just wrote. Ask Rick Perry how involved in Texas businesses he is. The answer will be not much, just give them what they need to prosper. This is why Toyota recently moved it's Tacoma Truck plant from death bed patient California to Prosperous San Antonio, Texas.
The answer then is clear. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and all the rest of you blowhards. Shut up and get out of the way. You won't of course but at least you'll go down in history as incompetent morons completely unfamiliar with the concept of success. At best.
I'd love to be a starting pitcher; if only I could find that nitch.
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great analogy. their customer service dept. needs work too.
ReplyDeleteI would tend to agree with Mark Belling's take on this administration: he suggests that Obama is not an idiot, and his major mistake is that he has opted to surround himself with his Chicago Thug Machine pols like Jarrett, Axelrod, Emanuel, rather than what has worked in the past for other Dem administrations to surround themselves with old Democrat hacks that actually know their way around government.
ReplyDeleteThese Chicago Thugs have no clue that they have no clue, and now things are going badly, as is demonstrated by their simple mismanagement of who comes and goes from the White House.
Labcat, I didn't know they had one !
ReplyDeleteFredd, I base my analysis on my observation that he cannot speak in complete sentences without a teleprompter. -
ReplyDeleteThat when he said he'd been to 57 states and still had 1 or 2 more to go to, he had no idea how many states there were. I don't know which is worse, that he didn't know, or that late in the game of a 2 year campaign, he hadn't seen fit to prepare himself with some basic information about the country.
He and they are a laughing stock around the world, and the world is licking their chops and attacking America from the angle of getting he and his administration to agree to give them large sums of money for all sorts of bullshit reasons. The latest being China suggesting the US owes the world reparations because we've been producing CO2 longer than anyone else.
And this is all because of his world apology tour and his incredibly Naive approach to the rest of the world, least of all the radical Muslims.
Russia, China, The Middle East are are all looking at us with forks and knives in their hands imo.
He is lacking incredible amounts of information about America and the world; he is a racist, is anti-American, and obviously extreme far left. If he thinks the world is ready to play nice with us because of his naive ramblings to date, he is an idiot in my opinion.
Though I also believe he is a complete puppet. I'd say the Chicago people are pulling some of the smaller strings and some other person or group pulling the larger strings.
Merchant Bankers.
ReplyDeleteDowning Street Gang.
10 Downing Street,UK
Google--Downing Street.
See Downing Street Memo.
When Diana's Secretary wanted to Write a Book about his time with her, the Queen told him to be careful. 'In England there are Forces Unseen.'
The Puppeteers.
They finance both sides of revolutions and wars. Since 1400's.
The Florin People.
Hence the Name of my spot.
They like only Gold. Do not like Silver. Hence the name of my spot.
There is more but it takes to long to lay it out.
Their children have all inter married. Now like One Big family.
"Death Bed Patient California" is a good way to put it and I loved your insight though it looks bleak. I HOPE for CHANGE so we can turn this bullshit around.
ReplyDeleteThey Say.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'll have to check that out. They are definitely forces unseen.
Gene, Thank you. 2010 Baby !!!
ReplyDeleteWow, that was a great story about your old place, Kid.
ReplyDeleteThe stupid management that ran it into the ground sound like the ass hats that I have to put up with.
I hope you got out while the getting was good.
Unfortunately, we're stuck w/ obumbles and company until we can get rid of them. They are the most incompetent morons in history. Obama is a worse megalomanic than hitler. I'll be glad when they are gone.
Bunni, I'm glad you liked the story. All true. It really was a hoot to see it all crash and burn, especially with respect to the management people who were convinced it was they who made it all happen (versus the talent that left).
ReplyDeleteI rode it past the buy out, sold my meager share of stock, then went my own way.
There is no describing the effects of arrogance and ignorance combined. I see that to the power of ?? in government. Government's job is to enable the private sector. How far from that concept have we gotten? Wowsa.
Great analogy, Kid.
ReplyDeleteIt never ceases to amaze me how Left-wingers do not believe that any sectoral experience is necessary for those who rule over us and especially those who exert control over something (the economy) of which they have no understanding.
The proportion of representatives on the Right who have been businessmen, in the military, etc, is very respectable.
On the Left, they've either been lawyers or have been swirling around politics for their entire lives, neither of which bodes anything good.
I don't advise doctors on how to perform surgery. But people who have neither had private sector jobs, much less run their own business, nor any military experience, have power over the economy and the military?
That makes sense.
Track. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteActually if you look at everything the Democrat party has done in the last 5 decades, all projects have been fucking disasters.
I gotta do a post on that sometime.
Jimmy Carter - create dept of energy to reduce dependency on foreign energy(oil) The dept has hundreds of thousands of employees and consultants and has accomplished jack shit. In fact it's been running in reverse.
Welfare? Fucking disaster.
War on poverty - Fuck me.
Dept of Education? Fuck me twice.
Excuse my Russian. I'm just practicing for when they take over.
Current events ? They spent over 2.5 Trillion and have accomplished Jack Shit. They have a new spending bill for another Trillion that will accomplish Jack Shit.
I'm sure you've read about the drastic Increase in government employees making over 100k Just since the recession.