In *bushlerville, abject failure is your ticket to promotion

[burythehatchet]

He really is the first CEO style resident of the White House. It's remarkably similar to conservative, buttoned-down corporations. The bigger the turd the higher he'll float. For every Wolfowitz, Bolton, Rice, and Rumsfeld, there is a cadre of the sons of fortune who arrive with tautly ironed shirts and slick haircuts. Their path to the board room is well planned. The rest of us actually innovated, improved, and worked to serve clients. But we worked three times as much to make half as much. It was discouraging, but you soon learned to accept it and appreciate the bones that might get thrown your way.

I spent 20 years in the world of Marsh, and Aon, and AIG. Bushlerville is not confined to DC.

[ck4829]

1. "Maybe if I lie and commit felonies, I may get rich and famous"

This is the message Bush is giving to little kids.

[BiggJawn]

3. Not just Bush...

Skillman, Ebbers, Lay, and yes, I know this will get me flamed, but Stewart, too.....

[BiggJawn]

2. "Peter Principle" on steroids.

Why, oh WHY didn't i go to college and get an MBA?
WHY did I EVER think I wasn't SMART enough? Shit, now I see that I was actually TOO smart to be an MBA.

Too moral, too.

[burythehatchet]

4. I'm an MBA and I'm here to tell ya

that its not very important in the business I was in.

[BiggJawn]

6. Morals or Brains?

"Ethics" is not a very popular cours at my school's College of Management...

I have this nightmare of walking into a classroom some day to repair the video equipment and catching all these future "Club for Growth" members standing around practicing their "I know NOZZEEN! NOZZEEN!!!" Sgt. Schultz defence...

[leetrisck]

5. "Failing Upward" is what bush &

all those around have done. The more the failure, the higher the promotion.