The Cup O' Joe Report 01/13/06: The CEO Mentality

[Joeve]

This is a transcript of Joe Vecchio's daily "Cup O' Joe Report" podcast, availaible here and posted with the permission of the author.

It's been said that Mr. Bush is the first CEO President, and this observer agrees: like a CEO, Mr. Bush and his administration prefer to operate in secrecy, have little concern for how their company actually works and even less concern for the welfare of their customers. It's a top-down mindset where loyalty to the executives is more important than loyalty to the company: though as they see it, the executives are the company. That's why you hear all this rhetoric about how anyone who opposes Mr. Bush and his policies opposes America.

Of course, being an elected official in a democratic republic is not the same as being a corporate executive: you can't fire a Senator or a Congressman, and the laws regarding your behavior are a lot stricter than they are in the business world. To the current administration, however, these are just obstacles. Instead of firing an elected official, they find ways to intimidate or marginalize them. If you need to lie, cheat, or even break the law to get something done you just do it and worry about the consequences later. As anyone who's ever worked in a big company knows, this is standard operating procedure.

What's important to understand about everything that's going on is that the current administration is just a front for corporate interests who want to remake the federal government into a tool to serve their own interests rather than the interests of the citizens from whom governmental power theoretically derives. And while they're stealing our government, they're stealing our money as well.

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[benburch]

1. Joe... You ought to post this on Thom Hartmann's chat board, too.

If enough people there become interested, we might be able to convince Thom to run your spot in one of his breaks.

[Joeve]

3. I'll do that

In fact I plan on doing that for all of my neighbors at White Rose over the weekend.

[Initech]

2. Makes perfect sense.

When you look at that metaphor, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC are just nothing more than public relations / advertising firms for the "corporation". They do their best to try and make the "corporation" look good, even if it means alienating the people who dont support what they do.

It's all an interest of making the executive look good.