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<p>[QUOTE="Siwash, post: 1297119, member: 18091"]re: businessmen running amok</p><p><br /></p><p>I am careful, always, about saying that businessmen know how to solve every problem. Even before the great recession, we saw the economic problems caused by the old "common sense" notion that an MBA could run most any kind of business. T'ain't true.</p><p><br /></p><p>the best I can say for the "businessmen rule" approach to government is that it contains an important truth: large bureaucracies need some way to better connect with the public, and they need "accountability" to the public rather than a "public be damned" attitude (hard to shake, since really why should a government employee treat any one particular citizen any different from anyone else?).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Siwash, post: 1297119, member: 18091"]re: businessmen running amok I am careful, always, about saying that businessmen know how to solve every problem. Even before the great recession, we saw the economic problems caused by the old "common sense" notion that an MBA could run most any kind of business. T'ain't true. the best I can say for the "businessmen rule" approach to government is that it contains an important truth: large bureaucracies need some way to better connect with the public, and they need "accountability" to the public rather than a "public be damned" attitude (hard to shake, since really why should a government employee treat any one particular citizen any different from anyone else?).[/QUOTE]
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