| | | >> His little empire may have involved big bucks but he ran it like a mom and pop shop. That's not executive experience.
Lane, it is not government experience but it is not mom-and-pop (I grew up working for my family's mom-and-pop). In a mom-and-pop, you do everything of substance. You count the money, make the bank deposits, hire and fire, and chew the employees out when they're late. If someone isn't going to be there on time, you find someone to take their place. And in my dad's case, at 11:00pm, you go close up, summarize the number of shrimp baskets you sold vs catfish. And at 6AM you're back making 40 dz donuts for the day.
We know he had hotels, each of which requires at least two levels of management above the staff workers. And I believe it is correct to say that his construction work involved both subcontractors and company owned contractors.
It is not, of course, the absurdity of 10 (or more?) levels of middle management found in our government. But he went to his top level management and said, "I want a budget with a 5% cut from every department." This seems like a pretty reasonable thing to have done in an organization this size. No one else has done it, true, but if you can't get 5% out of these massive budgets you aren't trying.
TO argue that his experience just doesn't apply makes no sense at all, and here is why:
1. What we've been doing for years isn't working. At all. It is time for a new style of management. And what he's been doing seems to be working fairly well.
2. The idea that a former Senator or worse, Barack Obama, had the experience to run our government is absolutely absurd. Whatever experience Trump had when he arrived there was an order of magnitude greater than a 1/2 term Senator with a small exposure to a state senate. And while Obama failed miserably, it was predominantly because of poor political ideology than it was because of execution. |
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