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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: haqihana who wrote (15022)11/25/2006 1:32:07 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Most people who have had to manage businesses are conservative. Most people who have had to manage government bureaucracies are liberal. Is it because those roles attract a specific personality? Or is it because the important skills learned impart a way of thinking on the people in those fields?

Businesses have to create revenue and then deliver a product or a service within the cost constraints of the revenue. This creates an abundance mentality, people realize that as their volume increases they realize economies of scale and while they reduce unit price, their unit cost decreases faster.

Bureaucracies create a perceived need and then struggle to spend 100% of the available funds every year so their fife doesn't diminish. The only way to get a salary increase in a government (education) management position is to increase then size of the department, thus inducing greater management responsibilities, and stress. Because there is always the risk of losing funding if the budget is not fully funded, this creates a scarcity mentality.

A liberal’s greatest fear should be that their child gets a real job, and a conservative's greatest fear should be that their child goes into government / education / charitable work.
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