Back in December, there was a report circulating that “In the Obama administration over 90 percent of the players’ prior experience was in the public sector, academia, or law practices. Virtually no business experience per se.”
For details, see: Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required
https://kenhoma.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/help-wanted-no-private-sector-experience-required/
At the time, liberals debunked the study as both untrue and irrelevant.
In the past week or so, I spotted 2 articles that play on the original report.
One is from the right-leaning Washington Examiner, so it’s likely to be dismissed by many folks as partisan.
As the president said about the passage of his new national health program: “We proved we’re still a people capable of doing big things.”
More accurately, it proved that Washington is still capable of saying big things. The doing part is another matter.
The RAND Corp. told us that rather than holding off premium increases, the president’s health program will drive premiums up 17 percent. The Congressional Budget Office projected that 10 million people will be booted from their employer-based policies. Medicare’s chief actuary predicted a $311 billion health spending increase on Medicare and dramatic cuts to services over the next decade.
Whether you love the idea of government-guaranteed health insurance or hate it, no sensible person expects what’s been enacted to work properly.
Excerpted from Washington Examiner: Trust gap will haunt Democrats in November, May 10, 2010
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Trust-gap-will-haunt-Democrats-in-November-93238804.html
Another is from uber-liberal Joe Klein of Time magazine. Not so easily dismissed.
Obama’s health care reform, and the soon-to-be-passed financial-reform bill, will create scads of new and reinforced regulatory agencies. They will have to be managed well if those new programs are to succeed — and good management is, sadly, neither a government specialty nor a priority.
Democrats tend to be more interested in legislating than in managing.
They come to office filled with irrational exuberance, pass giant fur balls of legislation — stuff that often sounds fabulous, in principle — and expect a stultified bureaucracy, bereft of the incentives and punishments of the private sector, to manage it all with the efficiency of a bounty hunter.
Traditionally, Republicans were more concerned with good management than Democrats.
But even if Republicans were intent on managing the necessary bureaucratic evils, and even if Democrats understood that making the government run brilliantly was the key to building support for their programs, there would be problems inherent in the nature of the beast.
Most bills are designed for passage, not implementation. They are stuffed with special provisions inserted by lobbyists and predatory politicians. They are empretzeled with circuitous funding mechanisms.
And then there is the nature of the bureaucracy itself.
Three types of people tend to seek government work: idealists, those looking for sinecures and those who want to build lucrative private-sector careers based on their knowledge of government regulations. All three types present problems.
There is a pretty good, but not overpowering, reason government workers are hard to fire: they need to be protected from political pressure. But that protection inevitably produces regulators who, as in a recent notorious case at the Securities and Exchange Commission, spend more time watching porn than riding herd on Wall Street.
Too many of their colleagues who are not watching porn are building expertise that will enable them to beat the regulatory system when they exit the revolving door into private finance.
Even the idealists, who are prominent in places like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), can cause trouble if they are naive and inflexible in their enforcement of rules and regulations.
Management 101: What the Democrats Need to Learn, by Joe Klein Thursday, May. 06, 2010
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1987358,00.html
Gee. Do you think adding a couple of experienced business managers to the team might help ?
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Johnnie Walker has had a pretty tough year with volumes down 11%.
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