Posted by
theoilpatchplug on Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:00:00 AM
After watching the political candidates, and the news coverage of them I began to understand that politician are trying to pit the American People against the people that run our private organizations. These attacks are more that the usual class envy card played by populist of the past. They are mean and hateful rants against people that have helped to make this country and other Americans more prosperous that any people the world has ever seen.
For every Global Crossing and Enron there are millions of bright industrious people working hard to deliver goods and services we depend upon, make payrolls for their employees so they can may mortgages and educate their children, and increase shareholder value so your 401K and mutual funds grow so we can eventually retire. The American C.E.O.‘s and their drive to make their company’s bigger and better makes our country and the world a better place to live and do business.
C.E.O.’s earn their pay. They may have started in a neighborhood garage tinkering with a hobby that they felt so passionately about it turned into a thriving business or worked their way through an Ivy League business school. However they became successful C.E.O’s were tested by the “Free Market”, their customers, their employees, their shareholders, governmental regulators, partners, and bankers. They found a way to deliver the goods to all of us while paying high taxes, adhering to governmental regulations, encouraging coworkers to improve and creating a good place to work.
Chief Executive Officers are not villains, but they are portrayed as money loving thieves in the media. Many businessmen serve on boards of charities, universities and hospitals. They don’t seek social approval or applause for their works; they work to improve the systems and society for the leaders that will follow in future generations.
If the “change” politicians speak of includes punishing C.E.O.’s for being successful we will surely loose the drive that made our country great, and that will hurt us all. I pray that God blesses our business leaders; it’s the wise and selfish to do.
Dean Philpot
www.bigoilfields.com