Got ya!
President Bush is basing our foreign policy on this simple business concept. Next time you see a CEO or a politician talk about free trade, watch their eyes…they just light up like a hot night in Vegas. They sweat on just the thought of China’s 1.3 billion potential consumers--- with a growing middle class who are now going to buy from General Electric, Ford Motors, and Hanna Montana. Sweet visions of their stock options portfolio is almost more than a Ralph Lauren suit can bear.
Of course, to get at this market, our politicians had to sell out American workers, but it’s a sacrifice they were willing to take, and take---and take again.
The vast new endless global markets in their eyes, give them that “unfair advantage” of setting up “fortresses” of manufacturing companies and then, accordingly, all these communistic countries will become democratic countries, and we’ll be safe from attack. At least that’s the plan.
So—is it working in China?
Without a shot being fired, we now depend on China for everything. Instead of China becoming more democratic, America is becoming more…communistic. Who has the unfair advantage now?
And while these multinational companies are making trillions in other countries, America goes broke. Not one of them seems to care at all.
But when the business concept of ‘unfair advantage’ is applied by a government onto its own people, it's not fair at all...it's called totalitarianism.
No matter how many bloggers, writers, protesters, and television media talk show hosts complain, it will never make much difference, because our government has patiently set up their vast “fortresses” to the unfair advantage that they now hold. Most of us answer to one electric company, one water company, one energy policy, one commerce department, one school system, and a media controlled by just a handful of the very powerful.
And when a government has set up a firewall of unbreakable unfair advantages, you can have all the free speech you want…it means abso-bloody-lutely nothin’.
At least that’s this nobody’s opinion.
The book also says; “Wise leaders know that in order to continue to win, the leaders must attack themselves, one of the principles of the defender strategy.”
Heck, why don’t they just make Reverend Wright President and save the world faster then? It seems this lesson has become everyone’s favorite.
No, the power of unfair advantage is not just the profile of a Dolly Parton, or the updated policies of eminent domain, or the unfairness of affirmative action…it’s a handful of Harvard business school graduates thinking they are creating a New World Order with their clever business practices, and maybe they are…but to whose advantage?