Aaron Maloy's Blog

Democrats Can't Fix This Republican Recession

We are in a recession. Thanks to Bush and an incompetent Congress the value of the American dollar is plunging, families are being toppled by shattering mortgages, people of all ages can't make ends meet, the cost of living is out of control, the stock market is crumbling and the list goes on. But don't look to the Democrats for our economic salvation.  This crisis is beyond partisan politics.

 The real reason why our economy has soured stems from one origin. Most of the  people who manage our economy have little to no business or economic experience. "Oh, but that doesn't matter. What matters is where they stand on the issues like health care, gay marriage, education and labor," say the Democratic machine liberals. "What matters is how well they can inspire hope," say the looney tooney liberals. Both are wrong. In the private sector when businesses compete what truly matters is the competence of the chief executive, not his or her own personal "feelings."

Consider an analogy using two multi-national businesses. Lets say that they both produce the same commodity. In order to stay in business one of these corporations must dominate the market, operate efficiently, keep costs low and motivate, train and retain high quality employees. Most importantly, the chief executive must not allow profits to to drop. These are all basic principles of business and economics. Moving up the corporate ladder is also  a principle of business economics. So it follows that the chief executive of the world's largest economy should have the substantial business and economic experience. Which business would survive, the one whose CEO was some  Republican career politician or Bill Gates?

We have seen the negative effects of career politicians on our nations economy. Many, if not most of the Republicans in the Republican dominated congress had zero business experience. George Bush had business experience, but he went out of business, prompting him to run for Governor of Texas. So it was only inevitable that we would end up in this recession. What else do you expect from an unqualifed congress and a president who's experience in the private sector demonstrates that he is not a competent manager? Instead all we have heard is "we must fight the terrorist enemy, lower taxes is better, we must secure our borders, blah, blah, blah."

Can you imagine selecting a random Republican congressman or even George Bush and making them the CEO of a fortune 500 company? Of course not.  That's why both the former and latter are unfit to be controlling the fate the largest business conglomerate in the world. And that's why both are responsible for laying the framework for our current recession. Thanks to the Democrats taking control of congress, it couldn't have come any quicker.

Amid swelling economic disaster partisan politics is not working for our country. Our next manager can't be some hillbilly (Huckabee), or drag queen (Guiliani), or poet (Obama), or lawyer (Clinton) career politician. This is a very serious time for our country. Voters seriously need to wake up from the day dreams evoked by the rhetoric of Rhapsodizers like McCain, Clinton, Obama, Huckabee, Edwards and other do-nothing politicians. Yes, they speak beautifully. I admit to having felt sympathy for Clinton when she cried, despite the odds of it being staged. I agree that Obama's stories about hope are inspirational and make you "feel good." I admire McCain for being a prisoner of war. But that is not a prerequisite of managing an enitity that determines not only the state of our economic health, but the economic prosperity of developing nations in the third world.

None of the leading candidates have the business skills that it takes to rescue us from this recession. Up until last month we did in fact have hope. It wasn't from Obama's beautiful words, but from Mitt Romney's record of building some of the largest international businesses and turning around both the Olympics and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was the only CEO in the pack. Now with his campaign smashed to pieces by the "feel good"rhetoric of do-nothings like McCain and Huckabee, we are left with only career politicians to choose from. This brings us back to the fortune 500 analogy. Do you think that Hillary or McCain or Huckabee or Obama have the business skills to propel the USA into economic prosperity during a time when corporate genius Presidents of other countries are preparing for a super competitive economic smackdown with the United States? The answer is no.

Unless a more qualified candidate enters the race we are doomed. As Senator of NY Hillary Clinton did nothing for her state. Same for McCain, Obama and Huckabee. In fact, several of these candidates exacerbated the social and economic welfare of their respective states. Now with the only candidate with success in the private and public sector gone, we must be unorthodox in recruiting our next leader. Our only hope lies in Michael Bloomberg, who has hinted at running for president over the past few weeks as an Independent.

Even more impressive than Romney, Bloomberg is a billionaire who, unlike Romney, wasn't born with a diamond-laced golden spoon in his mouth. That's exactly what we need right now. If Michael Bloomberg can go from a poor post-holocaust Jew to the 34th most wealthy billionaire in the world, and clean up the mess made by Rudy Guiliani in New York, he, and only he, has what it takes to reverse what has happened and what is happening to our country.