The crucial difference
One of the problems with Business people becoming politician is that the failed to see the differences between the business world and the political system. It is easy to see the similarities - management to large systems, Producing results and so on. But these similarities are often deceiving. While running a business is often about the “Bottom line”, achieving the desired results, political systems should be about the process. Successful business people often desire to fix the inefficiencies of the political system and failing to understand that those inefficiencies, the compromises, the political pressures and the many different interest groups are crucial for the health of liberal democracy.
And when the business man, turn to be politician, is by nature an authoritarian the results are:
Doubtless the Mayor is still pondering the question. Since he took office six years ago, Mike Bloomberg’s record is, among other things, a study in finicky prohibition. Not only is Bloomberg certain of what’s best for you, he knows you to lack the good sense to choose it. In order to ensure the well being of his charges, the Mayor has instituted a few laws about which he has said, “People will adjust very quickly and a lot of lives will be saved.” Has an American politician ever expressed a more vitally un-American sentiment? Dubious claims of life-saving aside, American citizens aren’t to be schoolmarmed into compulsory purification.
Yet, in 2002, brushing off a few cranky editorials, Mayor Mike instituted a smoking ban that covered every public New York City workplace including all restaurants, bars, cabarets, and pool halls. In 2007, he enacted the country’s first municipal ban on trans fats in restaurant food. With their appetites regulated and a chunk of their free choice under lock and key at Gracie Mansion, denizens of the vice-free five boroughs have been, presumably, “adjusting.”
Without doubt Mayor Bloomberg is one of the more efficient Mayors NY City had, the price of “making the trains run on time”, however, of is much to high to pay.
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Rogel @ March 6, 2008
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