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The far left has put itself into a box reminiscent of a business engagement many years ago. At that time, my employer provided lease financing arrangements that capital equipment suppliers could offer to their customers as an alternative to cash purchase or bank borrowing.

A major leasing benefit was “flexibility,” in that terms and conditions of agreements could be matched or tailored to the equipment itself. Two or three- year lease terms, for example, were available for quickly obsolescent items such as electronic or computing equipment, while ten or twelve-year terms were applicable to printing presses or machine tools. At lease expiration, options existed for purchase, equipment return or lease term extension.

When working with a new equipment supplier, considerable time was spent learning about typical customer financing preferences regarding lease types and habits, to help match contract design to end-user preferences.

On one such occasion, many months were spent working with national sales management, operations executives and field sales personnel of a major phototypesetting equipment supplier in the design of a program. Because of their size, capabilities and years in business, significant latitude existed in customer accommodation in financing preferences. Applying that latitude resulted in design of a financing program meeting every feasible customer wish imaginable.

When the program was finally ready for introduction, a meeting was held in the supplier’s headquarters conference room, ten or twelve of the suppliers personnel seated around the table for a contract execution “ceremony.” All of those present were quite pleased with the program itself and the results of the work, time and effort they’d invested.

As the proceedings went on, the program now ready for introduction, I turned to the gentleman seated next to me and said something like, “Ray, I think we put together a winner here.” Shaking my extended hand, he replied, “I think so too, Mike. But if the dogs don’t eat the food…”

What he was telling me was, that the test of the program hadn’t really taken place yet. It didn’t really matter how much work, time and effort we’d all extended in the design itself. All that actually counted was whether their sales personnel, customers and real-world circumstances produced success from our endeavors. When closing a sale, their salespeople weren’t going to ensure or insist that any particular financing offer was applied, their job was to sell equipment any way possible. And for us to be successful, the program itself had to work on its own.

Which is where the hard-left radicals now find themselves.

After years of applying every means possible, presenting every “pitch” in existence and now actually winning the White House along with Congressional control, the hard-left has finally taken control. As a result, former theories have now been put into action, such as the shut-down of the Keystone and Dakota pipelines, unbridled entry of illegal aliens, defunding of police, threats of significant tax increases, expansion of government, rules and regulations. And in every single case, actual results have been horrendously bad.

So, because of electoral wins, the “dogs are now eating the food” all over the nation and finding it undigestible. Leading to predictions of the largest loss of Congressional seats in the nation’s history this coming November. Primarily, because when put into effect it’s been found that far-left premises simply do not work to anyone’s benefit except those holding office.

By comparison, our financing program turned into a huge national success, whereas our goal was to meet needs of the largest group possible, which is what we went out and did. While leftist politicians fail miserably whenever in power, because their true objective never extends beyond optimal self-satisfaction of those holding office.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios.