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Old 10-31-2010, 11:27 AM
 
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Government and business are antithetical. That's not a flaw in the system — government exists to take on precisely those tasks the private sector can't or won't.

California is poised once again to compete for the crown as the nation's leading graveyard for business superstars trying to make the jump into politics.
California elections: Why big-time CEOs make terrible politicians - latimes.com

This is why working Americans should always be skeptical when they hear a politician say that our government should be "run like a business". Government doesn't work that way. It can't be run like a for-profit business.
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Old 10-31-2010, 11:32 AM
 
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cause they don't lie enough like most lawyer/politicians.
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Old 10-31-2010, 11:55 AM
 
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cause they don't lie enough like most lawyer/politicians.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing.

CEO's are also used to being accountable to shareholders and forced to have a bottom line that works or the company suffers. Liberals don't want any CEO to show that the government can be run leaner and more efficiently with a smaller workforce. They don't want American's put back to work or for manufacturing to return because that would undermine the globalist agenda.
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Old 10-31-2010, 12:03 PM
 
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cause they don't lie enough like most lawyer/politicians.
That's funny. If there is one thing I've learned during my career, it is that when a manager/executive looks you in the eye and says "None of those rumors about mergers/layoffs/outsourcing/reorganizations are true", it's a given that they're about to stick it to you.
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Old 10-31-2010, 12:06 PM
 
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They don't want American's put back to work or for manufacturing to return because that would undermine the globalist agenda.
At least one high-profile CEO (Fiorina) with political ambitions made her name by outsourcing HP's manufacturing and cutting the R&D to shreds. Does she constitute a liberal in your eyes?
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Old 10-31-2010, 12:09 PM
 
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cause they don't lie enough like most lawyer/politicians.
Let the plethora of lawyer and politician jokes bear witness to that fact.
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Old 10-31-2010, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Land of debt and Corruption
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I'd take a corporate CEO over a community organizer any day of the week, hands down. At least they know how to be accountable to their shareholders (citizens) and are cognizant of budgets. Governors also typically make good presidents. They understand how state budgets work.
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Old 10-31-2010, 12:24 PM
 
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At least one high-profile CEO (Fiorina) with political ambitions made her name by outsourcing HP's manufacturing and cutting the R&D to shreds. Does she constitute a liberal in your eyes?
Liberal taxation and regulation policies/legislation along with labor unions make outsourcing necessary for corporations whose stockholders expect returns on their investments, or do you ignore this inconvenient truth?
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Old 10-31-2010, 12:30 PM
 
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Paying foreign workers, a couple of bucks a day, doesn't hurt either?

Steve
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Old 10-31-2010, 12:33 PM
 
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Oh please like Barry has done any good since he was inaugurated
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