It Takes a Weiner
Eponymously named Democrat congressman, Anthony Weiner, tweeted earlier today, "It takes a great man to build a barn. Any jackass can kick it down." A not-so-thinly-veiled shot at Republicans.
Admittedly, Republicans weakened a wall or two during the Bush years, but Weiner, Pelosi, Reed, Obama, and their Democrat colleagues have flattened the barn, burned the crops, killed the animals, and razed the entire damn farm...and all in a few short years. Impressive.
In which environment do you think the townsfolk would best be able to rebuild:
One where businesses and entrepreneurs understand the rules of the game and are properly incented to deploy capital and create jobs? Where the tax code is simple, certain, and growth-oriented? Where the regulatory regime provides necessary oversight, but doesn't smother those under its purview? Where the free market is unshackled and able to stem out-of-control healthcare costs? Where risk-taking is encouraged and rewarded, not vilified?
Or, one where businesses and entrepreneurs are laden with uncertainty regarding their taxes, healthcare costs, and regulatory requirements? And where consumers are afraid to spend, and businesses are reluctant to hire?
Weiner should know better than to light a match in tinderbox barn.
It takes a village to identify its idiot, and a Weiner to be, well...a wiener.
In this case, we got a twofer.
Admittedly, Republicans weakened a wall or two during the Bush years, but Weiner, Pelosi, Reed, Obama, and their Democrat colleagues have flattened the barn, burned the crops, killed the animals, and razed the entire damn farm...and all in a few short years. Impressive.
In which environment do you think the townsfolk would best be able to rebuild:
One where businesses and entrepreneurs understand the rules of the game and are properly incented to deploy capital and create jobs? Where the tax code is simple, certain, and growth-oriented? Where the regulatory regime provides necessary oversight, but doesn't smother those under its purview? Where the free market is unshackled and able to stem out-of-control healthcare costs? Where risk-taking is encouraged and rewarded, not vilified?
Or, one where businesses and entrepreneurs are laden with uncertainty regarding their taxes, healthcare costs, and regulatory requirements? And where consumers are afraid to spend, and businesses are reluctant to hire?
Weiner should know better than to light a match in tinderbox barn.
It takes a village to identify its idiot, and a Weiner to be, well...a wiener.
In this case, we got a twofer.
I just finally became fully sickened of the whole blathering subject on whether the stimulus has helped or not. Big bureaucratic gov't programs just don't work because they intervene in the natural course of capitalism. Like it or not, we have a commission oriented world. the US sales teams like any sales organization has hunters and gatherers and the hunters are on a more leveraged sales plan and get paid on performance. EXCEPT our federal sales team. Our public sector sales leadership (Obama and the dems) think they can just rewrite comp plans and adjust quota to make things ok. We're seeing now that it just doesn't work because it messes with the one mechanism that is time stamped to perfection -- a truly commissioned sales plan. Mess with that and you're messing with DNA structure and you're likely to end up with a mutant...like our current economy.
Yes, the banks screwed it up during Bush's watch and yes (he/they deserve blame) but that's not the way it works in commission sales plans. Obama inherited the "bad account patch". He's got to deal with it and the way he's dealing with it is with a big gov't handout and "make it go away" philosophy instead of letting the blood flow and the axes fall where the commission structure needed to fall.
I would go so far as to say that even GM, AIG and the Macs should have taken the rap for what they were ... failing businesses. The money just added red blood to the wound instead of cutting off the limb with gang green and getting on with saving the body.
Frankly, I could careless about which party, or which candidate...I WANT COMPETENT LEADERSHIP in this country and someone who knows how to run a multi-trillion $ business. Enough of the gov't hand outs, enough of the BS political posturing, enough of the he said, she said politics in this country. Please give me a leader like Alan Mullalay or hell put Lindsey Graham in office in 2012...
And let's put the people back on good aggressive quotas and pay people for performance.
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Spoken like a true technology company executive...and/or anybody with common sense. Agree. Time to leave big government in the dust and unleash some capitalism.
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