Re: FWD [forteana] Health Care: USA, Iraq & Canada

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 17:48:32 MDT

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    Lee Corbin:
    <<What makes you feel it likely that you are speaking
    for the typical American boss? That is not a rhetorical
    question, I just want to know (you could be right).  My
    own take is/was that we should expect ordinary free-market
    competition to be working unless we have evidence to the
    contrary. >>

    Personal experience my man. These dudes and your occasional dudettes have
    spent their working lives as managers, starting with freshly minted MBA's; or
    marketing people (sales) or now (the ultimate liars) human resource cadres. Most
    of these managers have never operated a lemonade stand, yet they are given the
    reigns of business, through who they know. Some companies seem to succeed
    despite themselves, too.

    <<The key is whether the American entrepreneur
    and business leader still has what it takes.  If not,
    how do you explain the failure of competition and Darwin?>>

    Oh, they seem to have what it takes Lee, but there has been over the last 25
    years, a focus on fattening up the fortune 500 fiends, that the small business
    sector has been neglected. We have had, in the states, over 30 + years of
    successful lobbying to this end, by the big and uglies. Lee, social darwinism, is
    not darwinism. The 500 have mis-managed "other people's money" and have
    largely gotten away with it.



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