America is the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs. "Let's Downsize It!"

(4:31:00 PM)

Businessmen are lousy in government for a lot of reasons, as I showed yesterday.
But wait. There's more reasons.

Ever met a business man who didn't want to grow his business? Not a successful one, no. He or she wants to do better than the other sales operations, get the better product to market faster, to be able to be bigger than any other people in the same business, maybe in the same area.

Businessmen are built to grow their kingdoms. It's how they know they're important. More important than the other businessman. Reagan grew government bigger by huge amounts. Hell, the largest civilian office building in government is the Ronald Reagan Building in DC.

Please square this with "I want to make it smaller" that they all claim during their campaigns for public office. It's crap when they say it, and they know it's crap. They want more territory, more people who need their OK to inhale or exhale, and, good Republican business people that they are, they will do ANYTHING to be on top. This includes rewriting the Constitution, handing out lobbyist checks on the floor of the House, handcuffing  or stomping opponents and their supporters. This includes going in the hole 4 trillion dollars to buy a second term (Bush Junior's tax cuts) or starting two wars to prove you're more important than your dad (same bozo.)

And they rarely want to learn the ropes. Because being good at business means you're good at everything. It's that ego that knows everything that keeps them from being willing to listen to anyone that's also elected to government. It's especially what makes them lousy legislators: no idea what working on a team is like. Just want to be 'Leader.'

Finally, businessmen seem to think that they are the golden goose that we should all respect and idolize, because they make the gold. But they've got it backwards. They're a dime a dozen, mostly.

But there's only one America. And it's the goose that lays the golden eggs. Whether the gold is long-term investments like sewer systems and clean air standards, or a standardized market for business to grow in, or the businesses it encourages.

America is the golden goose. And businessmen thinking they know how to run it are just like the butcher who cut open the goose in the story, to get all the golden eggs now. Dumb butcher. Dumb businessmen.
(4:58:28 PM)