Boss
Take a Memo:
We've been hearing this left-wing anti-capitalist claptrap meme for several years now. The buzz words are heard over and over, and what happens is, reasonable thinking people hear it so often, they start to believe it and accept it. You start hearing otherwise sane and pragmatic people saying, "well, maybe the rich don't pay their fair share," or "yeah, some CEOs do make too much." The left simply chips away at the dumbed-down masses, until they succeed in convincing enough support for their insanity.
I was so disappointed in Bohner recently, telling us that they had "reached a compromise" on tax hikes, and only people making over a million a year would have a tax increase. As if, this was some sort of conservative victory! The old saying that came to mind was; "Madame, we've established what you are, now we are merely discussing price." Bohner, you moron, you just conceded a prime conservative free market capitalist point, and you don't even seem to realize it. This was all about the principle of increasing taxation on the very people who we need to bail us out of economic malaise. It just goes to show the power of persuasion, for months on end, we are bombarded with this liberal meme, and eventually, people start to cave and give in.
Well, I am here to set the record straight on a couple of my favorite memes. First up, the one about those wealthy CEOs making so much money they can't even count it all. Next time some snot-nose pops off about this, ask them point blank, if they know what a CEO does, and see what they say. Chances are, they are clueless. In a recent conversation with such a person, I discovered that CEOs have phone calls and meetings, then they go play golf and fly around the country on private jets. (Yes, I made sure he wasn't talking about Obama here.) But the bottom line is, this person had not a clue, regarding the day-to-day responsibilities that come with the CEO title. Literally, their job is to fix problems. A myriad of challenging and difficult to solve problems, most of the time. They have to be very good at this, because many of these actions have the entire company in the balance.
Now this brings me to capitalism, and how it works regarding CEOs. Let's say you have a business corporation. You likely also have a competitor, maybe even several. You all do the same thing, and your success as a company, depends on the response from consumers. These consumers can be motivated by a lot of things, price, location and convenience, quality, service, reputation, you get the picture. So the company who can do the best job in all possible areas of satisfying the consumer, is the one who best solves problems which may arise in the process. One day, you as an owner, get to thinking, how can I make my company better than my competitor? You decide, it would be a good idea to hire a person who is good at solving problems, to come in and be there to deal with these things as they arise. Your competitor doesn't have this, so you'll have an advantage. So that's what you do, now you have a CEO, so your competitor gets one too. Only, your competitor finds one who is better and pays him more. Now you have to go out and find a CEO better than theirs, and you do, but you have to pay him more. See where this is going?
When you start to feel despair at how much CEOs are making, remember that capitalists pay them according to the value they bring to the capitalist. They simply can't make "too much" if that is their value to a capitalist. To a capitalist, the primary objective is profit. Don't you think, if CEOs were "making too much" that some capitalist out there would say.. "hmm, we could make a butt load more profit not having to pay this fool to play golf and fly all over the country in a private jet?" So, either capitalists are really stupid people who are squandering an awful lot of profit paying a figurehead, or CEOs do more than the morons realize, and have a value to the capitalist which is reflected in the salary they are paid.
When I point this out to lefties, the first thing they come flying back with, is examples of corrupt white collar criminals who we've convicted and sent to prison. I'm not sure what this has to do with legitimate CEOs who operate in compliance with the law, but since we haven't ever been able to pass a law to effectively prevent people from breaking the law, I have to assume the reason they bring up criminals, is to insinuate that all CEOs are corrupt white collar criminals who belong in prison. Again, why would a capitalist knowingly hire and pay such people? Seems like hiring criminals and crooks to run your company, wouldn't be a good idea for profits.
The next meme we hear is "greedy capitalists" and it really rubs me the wrong way. There is no place for "greed" in a regulated free enterprise, free market system. We have laws and agencies to regulate and monitor capitalist activity, to ensure "greed" doesn't rear its ugly head through monopoly or exploitation of environment, or risk to public safety, etc. Oh, but so-and-so reported "record profits" last year! Isn't that greed? Nope... that's success as a capitalist. It means, a capitalist provided a product or service to a consumer base who was satisfied, more so than his competitors did. If the capitalist were 'gouging' customers, another capitalist would have capitalized, in a free market system.
The ironic thing is, it is the Socialist system the left advocates, which will GUARANTEE greed, corruption, graft, and undeserved figurehead pay, but this will all be done by the people who also hold the political reins of power. There is no free market competition, everything becomes a monopoly, controlled by the ruling class elite and their hand-picked cronies. Environment? You think you'll get the government to condemn the government for destroying the environment? Has that ever happened in history?
Finally, it is important to note where all of this rhetoric we are hearing, comes from. It is basically a template of how Socialism was introduced across Europe. The big giveaway, is how the arguments simply fail in our country because of our free market system which operates in our unique Constitutional republic. You see, back when Karl Marx and others were kicking their ideas around Europe, those people lived under rule of kings and dictators. There was no free market competition, such a thing was forbidden from the commoners, they were peasants. In a system without free enterprise and free market capitalism and competition, Socialist arguments of class warfare and "greedy capitalists" is much easier to swallow. But since this argument utterly fails here, they have to work on building a perception of something that doesn't actually exist in our system.
I was so disappointed in Bohner recently, telling us that they had "reached a compromise" on tax hikes, and only people making over a million a year would have a tax increase. As if, this was some sort of conservative victory! The old saying that came to mind was; "Madame, we've established what you are, now we are merely discussing price." Bohner, you moron, you just conceded a prime conservative free market capitalist point, and you don't even seem to realize it. This was all about the principle of increasing taxation on the very people who we need to bail us out of economic malaise. It just goes to show the power of persuasion, for months on end, we are bombarded with this liberal meme, and eventually, people start to cave and give in.
Well, I am here to set the record straight on a couple of my favorite memes. First up, the one about those wealthy CEOs making so much money they can't even count it all. Next time some snot-nose pops off about this, ask them point blank, if they know what a CEO does, and see what they say. Chances are, they are clueless. In a recent conversation with such a person, I discovered that CEOs have phone calls and meetings, then they go play golf and fly around the country on private jets. (Yes, I made sure he wasn't talking about Obama here.) But the bottom line is, this person had not a clue, regarding the day-to-day responsibilities that come with the CEO title. Literally, their job is to fix problems. A myriad of challenging and difficult to solve problems, most of the time. They have to be very good at this, because many of these actions have the entire company in the balance.
Now this brings me to capitalism, and how it works regarding CEOs. Let's say you have a business corporation. You likely also have a competitor, maybe even several. You all do the same thing, and your success as a company, depends on the response from consumers. These consumers can be motivated by a lot of things, price, location and convenience, quality, service, reputation, you get the picture. So the company who can do the best job in all possible areas of satisfying the consumer, is the one who best solves problems which may arise in the process. One day, you as an owner, get to thinking, how can I make my company better than my competitor? You decide, it would be a good idea to hire a person who is good at solving problems, to come in and be there to deal with these things as they arise. Your competitor doesn't have this, so you'll have an advantage. So that's what you do, now you have a CEO, so your competitor gets one too. Only, your competitor finds one who is better and pays him more. Now you have to go out and find a CEO better than theirs, and you do, but you have to pay him more. See where this is going?
When you start to feel despair at how much CEOs are making, remember that capitalists pay them according to the value they bring to the capitalist. They simply can't make "too much" if that is their value to a capitalist. To a capitalist, the primary objective is profit. Don't you think, if CEOs were "making too much" that some capitalist out there would say.. "hmm, we could make a butt load more profit not having to pay this fool to play golf and fly all over the country in a private jet?" So, either capitalists are really stupid people who are squandering an awful lot of profit paying a figurehead, or CEOs do more than the morons realize, and have a value to the capitalist which is reflected in the salary they are paid.
When I point this out to lefties, the first thing they come flying back with, is examples of corrupt white collar criminals who we've convicted and sent to prison. I'm not sure what this has to do with legitimate CEOs who operate in compliance with the law, but since we haven't ever been able to pass a law to effectively prevent people from breaking the law, I have to assume the reason they bring up criminals, is to insinuate that all CEOs are corrupt white collar criminals who belong in prison. Again, why would a capitalist knowingly hire and pay such people? Seems like hiring criminals and crooks to run your company, wouldn't be a good idea for profits.
The next meme we hear is "greedy capitalists" and it really rubs me the wrong way. There is no place for "greed" in a regulated free enterprise, free market system. We have laws and agencies to regulate and monitor capitalist activity, to ensure "greed" doesn't rear its ugly head through monopoly or exploitation of environment, or risk to public safety, etc. Oh, but so-and-so reported "record profits" last year! Isn't that greed? Nope... that's success as a capitalist. It means, a capitalist provided a product or service to a consumer base who was satisfied, more so than his competitors did. If the capitalist were 'gouging' customers, another capitalist would have capitalized, in a free market system.
The ironic thing is, it is the Socialist system the left advocates, which will GUARANTEE greed, corruption, graft, and undeserved figurehead pay, but this will all be done by the people who also hold the political reins of power. There is no free market competition, everything becomes a monopoly, controlled by the ruling class elite and their hand-picked cronies. Environment? You think you'll get the government to condemn the government for destroying the environment? Has that ever happened in history?
Finally, it is important to note where all of this rhetoric we are hearing, comes from. It is basically a template of how Socialism was introduced across Europe. The big giveaway, is how the arguments simply fail in our country because of our free market system which operates in our unique Constitutional republic. You see, back when Karl Marx and others were kicking their ideas around Europe, those people lived under rule of kings and dictators. There was no free market competition, such a thing was forbidden from the commoners, they were peasants. In a system without free enterprise and free market capitalism and competition, Socialist arguments of class warfare and "greedy capitalists" is much easier to swallow. But since this argument utterly fails here, they have to work on building a perception of something that doesn't actually exist in our system.
