2012 VOTE - A PRIMER

Does 'Winner Take All' mean 'We All Lose'?

The polls say the voting electorate is almost evenly split today, with a slight edge to Obama.  Given the performance of the Repoob Primary candidates, the general public should be quaking in their knees.  We're heading for a "shoot-out" election  like the Kennedy v. Goldwater election that never took place in 1964; due to national tragedy.

Homework is required, going into this election, to save yourself, your family, your fortune, and your future.  Most people are worried about "jobs".  They believe, wrongly, that "government creates jobs".  Both sides have their version of this lie.  The truth is that demographics have made "jobs" as we used to know them impossible.

 People are living much longer and we have a 76-million strong "baby-boom" cohort in our population that is retiring in droves; with very little saved.
 No business can continue the old practice of providing benefits like retirement and health-care for workers.  So we're in a new world.  The politicians have known this was coming for at least  40 years!

Drucker used to say that any business that mistreated its workers was begging for a union.  Litchfield (see earlier blog: All Politics are Local?) describes the "industrial policy" that produced large successful corporations like Goodyear and Boeing.

Given the new demographics, companies have to completely overhaul their worker/management relations.  Germany has moved a long way toward this "new way", and has a strong economy; the U.S. has not.

Stay Vigilant!

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The adversarial model between management and unions began in government, when Reagan fired the PATCO union ( Air Traffic Control) workers and started a war on unions.  The Archie Bunker's of that time were a-swoon to Reagan's duo-toned song of race and class, so they helped Mad Ronnie destroy their unions.  That is when our old industrial policy died.

2012 is sold as a Union vs. Business shoot-out.  But it is not!  It is 'weakened' unions vs. 'venture' capital.  The Yin-Yang Media is steadily confusing the voter by mixing "venture" capital with

"private" capital, and with "business".  Venture capital is capital of the vulture kind!  Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against vultures.  They have thier role to play, both in business and in nature.  But nothing remains alive in a world wherein aggressive vultures reign.  There can be benevolent venture capitalists, but most benevolent capitalists are private capitalists who are not venture-based.  Venture capital is proving to be the bain (no pun intended) of truly small, high-tech businesses.

To paraphrase John W, Gardner ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Gardner a society that worships  its politicians while disdaining its plumbers will find themselves living in a world in which neither their government nor their toilets work.

Stay Vigilant!

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