Damn. His ideas sound suspiciously like the Small Business Administration...another service brought to neo-cons by liberals. Is this just a call to completely fuck-up another government organization so the neo-cons can claim it doesn't work? FEMA du jour?
Posted by phidipides at July 30, 2006 08:32 AMMaybe most big businesses are run by conservatives. As are most small businesses. We can conclude that most businesses are run by conservatives. Liberals tend to be the worker bees, because they don't often have the ability or willingness to do more. That's why many liberals work for the government. It's the job of last resort for many.
Posted by at July 30, 2006 09:07 AMWhat a load of generalizations the above post is. And so brave as to post without even a nom de plume.
Posted by herbal tee at July 30, 2006 09:17 AMI'm reminded of one of Gates' bragging points of a fledgling Microsoft was how the nature of its smallness meant it could be more responsive to change than the stalwart IBM, MS was forced to be innovative, to work smart ... and therein used to be the strengths of small businesses, their ability to evolve and thus survive. We've watched the dinosaurs of business such as Ford & GM slumbering in their largeness consistently react AFTER the fact of lost business, lay off thousands of employees because the largeness parallels a tone deafness that feet on the ground instantly recognizes and responds to. So the slumbering giants which hold this country hostage are always chasing after the innovators, not preceeding them. The very nature of a change-resistent conservative is to wait for the market to come to them and as heartening as it is to hear a conservative reiterate the support for small business, they still have the DNA of that fabled scorpion that can't help but sting the tortoise as they swim the river together.
Posted by mainsailset at July 30, 2006 09:32 AMLiberals tend to be the worker bees,
That's why Rush the Lush is so popular in American factories. All us liberals like listening to him.
Us liberals is smart...and in charge. You see, that's what made government work. Take the liberals out of FEMA and you get Katrina. Take the liberals out of the military and you get Iraq. Take the liberals out of State and you get Condi. Drop liberal IQ by 60 points and you get you...dumbfuck.
Posted by phidipides at July 30, 2006 09:32 AMWeyrich's analysis is missing something. Traditionally, it isn't bigness per se that they've been skeptical of, it's bigness in government. Bigness in business, of course, is A-OK. (What's good for GM is good for the nation.) And, simplisticly, the traditional liberal stance has been to support bigness in government to counterbalance that bigness in business. Evidence supports the argument that smart big businessmen of the past actually supported government regulation to moderate competition between them, enabling their own growth, and defusing social unrest that might interfere with growth.
Skeptical of bigness. Ha.
Posted by biggerbox at July 30, 2006 10:17 AMPhidipides, you have such a way with words. That post made me laugh. Sometimes the truth is just plan funny.
Posted by Judith at July 30, 2006 12:44 PM