Tuesday, May 24, 2011

BloggeRhythms 5/24/2010

Yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu promised to "speak the unvarnished truth" when talking about the president's calling for Israel's acceptance of borders established in 1967.
Netanyahu said, "This conflict has raged for 100 years because the Palestinians refuse to end it. They refuse to accept a Jewish state."

And for me, that brought a lot of things into perspective that our current administration does. Because aside from international tinderboxes, we have all kinds of domestic issues such as health care, tax reform, unemployment, border defense, terrorist threats, illegal immigration, drug and gun control,to mention just a few, all in the hands of a president who has no experience with any of this stuff at all. He's never been anything more than a party organizer and political hack, except for a short, do-nothing, stint in the Senate, his entire political life, thus he has no background or understanding of the subjects.

And that reminded of a book Lee Iaccoca wrote, Talking Straight, back in 1989. (I'm pretty sure that was the book, but if it's not that one it was another that Iaccoca wrote.) In it, Iaccoca said that when he was running Chrysler it didn't matter where new hires came from, they all went through an intense training period before being given real responsibility, because the company couldn't afford to risk tasking to people who were unprepared for their jobs, regardless of academic or prior employment credentials. I clearly remember an example of what would happen if someone added an extra zero to an order or left out a decimal point. The result could be thousands of unneeded parts ordered, or conversely not enough, which would strangle production.

So, if a brilliant manager like Iaccoca realizes the risks of delegating simple tasks to folks who aren't properly trained, what are the risks of putting a whole nation in the hands of an unskilled amateur whose only apparent talent is possession of a big mouth?

And I suppose that's why the Prime Minister of a tiny country on the other side of the globe has to stand up and explain basic historical facts to someone who's not only unqualified to make important international decisions, but can't get things running correctly in his own back yard.

So, coming back to Iaccoca's wisdom in avoiding risk, while I certainly understand there's no school that can prepare one for the Presidency of the United States, I still think there must be a better way to educate an unskilled newcomer to the office than having the public pay a tuition fee of over 14 trillion dollars and watch him alienate its strongest ally in the Middle-East.

That's it for today folks.

Adios

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