09 August 2003

The CEO-In-Chief , David Sirota, Popmatters.com, 9 August 2003 An outstanding "must read" article by David Sirota. I often said to my friends at Lucianne.com: "The Repbublican Party IS ENRON!" This is part of what I mean by that: "George W. Bush touted his business experience as one of the prime reasons he should be elected President. His CEO experience was packaged to elicit an image of a hard-working straight-laced leader who took responsibility for his business — in good times and bad. But in the Enron era of CEOs, it makes perfect sense we ended up with something very different in the White House." "George Bush is a CEO, alright. And that's the problem." "Today, the most well known CEOs are the people who pose for the front of magazines when times are good, and creep out the back door with the company safe when things go south. They are often not the brave commanders of the sinking ship helping everyone to safety first — they are increasingly the people who, after navigating the ship into an iceberg, sneak out of the control room, elbow women and children to the deck, steal the only working lifeboat for themselves, and then blame everyone else for the disaster. They are the Ken Lays of Enron, the Bernie Ebberses of WorldCom, and unfortunately now the George W. Bushes of the White House." "The similarities between Bush and his business contemporaries could always be seen in his reflexive first-to-take-credit, last-to-take-responsibility ethic, common in today's crooked crony capitalism. He was the first to take credit for passing a giant tax cut for the wealthy, but refuses to take responsibility for the fact that it provided little relief for the average American and created huge deficits. He was first to take credit for bombing the Taliban after September 11th, yet refuses to take any responsibility for the security failures that allowed September 11th to happen. He was the first to take credit for supposedly winning the war in Iraq, yet now he's refusing to take any responsibility for the poor planning that could lose the peace." 4:41:35 AM    comment [] trackback []

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