Now that we have a conservative Republican boy’s club sitting on the Coos County Commission the drum is beating to run Coos County government like a business. Without repeating my argument that government cannot be run like a business it does beg the question of which business model our appointed leaders seek to employ?
Will they pick the Weyehaeuser model of plundering all timber as quickly as possible, pocketing all the profits before closing down?
Perhaps they will choose the Roseburg Lumber model of laying off hundreds of workers while at the same time using public funds to ship raw material to workers overseas?
Maybe they plan to use the ORC model of privatizing the profits while socializing the risks. Oh, but wait, the government is already socialized. How would that work?
Will they pick, Lehman Brothers, or Wells Fargo, or GM, Chrysler, BP Oil or Enron as their perfect model of how a government should be run?
If anyone has an idea, please let me know.
Do you think Parry will gang up with Messerle against Main?
Basically, the only successful big businesses these days dine at the public trough. The taxpayer ends up footing the bill and providing their profits. Effectively, this is called “privatizing political will”. We won’t vote to raise taxes but we will pay through the nose for not doing so to private enterprise.
Personally, I’m an advocate of the get rich quick before they find what I have done model. If the writing in the daily downtown Coos Bay garbage can liner is accurate, and it’s seldom anything but whatever is needed to be written to sell papers; why not use a locally grown business model – the model of the greedy manufacturer of the “Jesus nut”. If that fails, we can always use the I’ve declared bankruptcy more often than I cut my hair Donald Trump model. PLEASE – ANY READER! tell us what profitable, successful, rapid growth, large business experience – anywhere – that any of the Bobby Main Trio has listed on their resume. Main has dined at the public trough for more years than many readers have been alive.
They already HAVE a Lehman Brother. Sits in on their meetings I understand.
Yes, Colandrio, that would likely be another favored model. We need people up there who actually understand that government and business are not the same (at least not supposed to be)
Or the Jordan Cove model that turns profits/taxes over to a foreign corporation.