By Ronald Joseph Kule
I'm just sitting at my latest office space - the dining room table strewn with all of my notes and papers of ideas over most of it...thinking of the events out of Washington DC these days in America.
Our President, I believe, is a good example of what is known as the "Peter Principle." This principle states that someone will get promoted up the ladder until he reaches the position that is beyond his capabilities.
Unfortunately, this time I think America as a voting nation has elected the Peter Principle into the office of the Presidency, and it shows. No major legislation passed in the first year, and the one we almost got saddled with we most defintely did not want passed - universal healthcare! We dodged a bullet with that one so far!
Guess I'm sorta glad he is that incompetent for the office.
If only Obama could wise up and realize that the only way to get an economy going well is to let the exchange of goods and services flow with only minimal government intervention and taxation. A free-flowing marketplace polices itself when sellers can only sell to buyers who want their goods at prices the consumers are willing to pay. There isn't much room for government meddling in such a simple equation.
Later this year when we can vote for needed congressional change which will set the stage for the real change needed in November 2012: a new President with experience commensurate to the office.
Guess I really do believe in the Peter Principle after all!
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I welcome divergent points of view to my articles. I welcome the opportunity we have in America to have the dialogue that moves our nation forward. Because I have been behind the Iron Curtain (a name given for good reason) and seen the suppression firsthand disallowing such free communication.
ReplyDeleteTo have a President who concludes apparently that we all need to be wards of big government-provided universal healthcare is to ignore the lessons from Canada and other countries that people can die before their number comes up for surgery when government determines your health care. To have a President who defies the open marketplace and "saves" it by practically nationalizing our largest product marketplace producers (GM, etc.), who considers our Constitution a document not worthy of our modern times and which should be skirted with Executive Orders...is simply not good enough for those of us who wish to remain free of the ideologies of men like Karl Marx and Woodrow Wilson who embraced notions of a one-world government as an "inevitable conclusion" for Earth's population in their time.
I write this in response to a comment sent to me by someone who, known years ago briefly, assumes I have not the experience or vision to understand our President and how he fills the shoes of the office. Has she seen Russia up close and personal? Seen the KGB in her seminar? Has she seen the guarded looks of Chinese afraid to say the wrong phrase to the wrong person? I think not.
America elected a President, a man...but the office of the Presidency - always more important than the resident - needs a statesman, one who remembers the freedoms built upon the foundations of 51 governments, not just one...and one who will defend his country with the honor of the men who have lived and died before him in the name of real freedom.