Governor Jindal recently lobbed this sharp accusation against our President. And perhaps business acumen is precisely what this country requires. After all there has been a recent business leader, worth $5.9 billion and the sixth richest man in his country. He had numerous election victories. He has been the longest serving Prime Minister. A clear model for today’s Republicans in his honesty and moral rectitude.
His name is Silvio Berlusconi.
Obama hasn’t even run a lemonade stand!
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17 Comments . Leave a comment below.That most people who agree with Gov. “Mystified by ‘something called volcano monitoring’ ” Jindal aren’t likely to get.
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Piyadasi an’ Silvio were sittin’ on the slopes of Vesuvius, merrily craftin’ jobs for the “small people.” Suddenly a loud . . . .
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Dear Governor Exorcist Jindal:
Obama hasn’t put any companies into bankruptcy to extract assets and wealth, meanwhile killing middle class jobs, either.
Classic Mitt – cutting jobs, cutting funding for higher education…that brings me to another similarity between Romney and Berlusconi: each is obsessed with screwing the young people of his respective country. But at least Berlusconi provides a degree of compensation for the privilege.
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“…perhaps business acumen is precisely what this country requires.”
My experience over 50 years of watching politics says it may be the last thing this country needs in a leader. Government is not a profit-making enterprise. Delivering needed services to citizens is only superficially similar to delivering goods or services to paying customers. When the businessman in question has made his fortune by casting thousands of workers into unemployment, he’d appear to be uniquely unqualified to run a government.
The whole government-as-business meme is so eighties …
People forget that the character of Alex Keaton was a comedic satire.
about as useful as the National Hurricane Center.
this?
Happy days.
I do think that many establishment Dems from government and non-profit would gain a better understanding of the world if they tried to produce products that consumers could choose not to buy.
Too often the attitude of the Dems is that private commercial activity is really easy, and so the private sector should have an easy time taking on all these extra burdens (even while getting attacked from Dem culture critics for growth, consumerism, risk-taking, political incorrectness and so on).
In this video. I don’t think anyone except the people in Louisiana have paid attention to him since:
I suppose the absence of audio could be accidental on your part, but the talking head with no audio sort of says it all even so.
For those who want the audio, though, it’s at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/284286-3 (sorry, no embed).
Substantiation? Or is this just some random prejudice that you could overcome with more self-awareness.
I offer as substantiation the republicans record on all matters public.
Openly-gay Representative Barney Frank explained it very well to a group of us in Brookline in last campaign. Let me paraphrase him here:
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