Actually, I am rooting that this guy does end up making the right decisions. Will go to show that many of those smart intellectuals with the fancy degrees aren’t always the answer. Heck, it’s those type of people that have f*cked this country and ruined government. And your assessment of this guy is just like many said of Reagan. He’s no politician, he’s just a B movie star!
If you read the article, you learn very clearly that the so called car guys at GM were running the company into the ground and strung the gov along for billions of dollars claiming BK is not an option. Well, this kid knew it was and put a stop to the bleeding and the waste of billions of dollars (GM should have gone into BK long ago saving us billions of dollars).
I don’t want Obama to succeed and it might be too late to help either, but so far this kid has been right.
I, for one, hope he has success as he will prove that sometimes having too much experience is necessarily a good thing.
I presume from the tone of your post that you meant to say "NOT necessarily a good thing..." Nothing personal here, but that statement is pretty silly.
In what circumstances is having less experience a good thing?
Roofing your house? Hope you got lots of buckets.
Arguing a legal case for you? Ever see what happens to the vast majority of people who represent themselves?
Pulling a tooth? Well, I suppose once you are under, your dentist could use vise grips and you couldn't tell.
Flying your airliner? I will take the 65 year old guy over the 25 year old guy any day of the week.
Politician? Sure, I will concede that, as long as they aren't arguing for legislation I want to see passed.
Fixing your car? As long as it is under warranty, you don't have to pay, and aren't worried about being stranded on the roadside.
Database engineer? Well...as long as your livelihood doesn't depend on that database, you are probably okay.
Brain Surgeon? Heck, isn't that why God gave us TWO sides to the brain? If one gets totally balled up because the surgeon mistakes one blood vessel for another, you still have the other side of your body to feed your mouth with. If you are lucky.
Soldier? Do you want your Special Forces guys right out of Boot Camp, or do you want them to have an average of 8-12 years of experience? And why is that?
The bottom line is: Experience is good. It is valuable. It is why people who have done a job for twenty years get more money from companies and are better at it than guys fresh out of high school.
It is a nice populist touch to say "Screw the Ivy Leaguers and professional executives who get fat off of screwing the poor union workers with high school diplomas" but in reality, your claim holds no water at all.
None.
This is not to say a breath of fresh air and a new perspective is not important and/or valuable, but if you are going to make a meal out of a breath of fresh air, you are going to go hungry.
As I said, this is nothing personal against you. I simply think that statement is completely and totally unsupported by reality, which is why we are in such dire straits with a person like Barack Obama running the government.
And by the way: Reagan was an accomplished politician and very successful governor long before he ran for President. The people who called him a 'B-grade movie star' thought that someone like George McGovern or Adali Stevenson would make a great president.
As much as I hate it (only because he is an O’Bama guy and therefore probably way left of center) I agree with you. There are people out there that have great common sense and street smarts. Once they were appreciated in this country, but since the 70’s know one has been willing to listen to anyone who doesn’t have a bunch of letters behind their names. It was the, JD’s MBA’s and PhD’s and academics that got us into this mess. Maybe we need some run of the mill guys making decisions for awhile.