...For presidents, the answer has been no.

By Robert S. McElvaine,
The Washington Post


Mitt Romney likes to argue that his business experience has prepared him for the challenges of the presidency, particularly in stoking economic recovery. In his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Romney declared that President Obama “took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business.”

But historically, has the economy been healthier in times when the president has had a business background?

from: Can a businessman help the economy? For presidents, the answer has been no. - The Washington Post

Sure as **** looks like a community organizer can't either.

Generally a good businessman avoids high political office. You tend to have enough on your plate already. Passing your business interests over to some blind trust can be both frustrating and still not really a hands off situation.

A good businessman or woman may have even some good ideals. Getting them implemented politically can be a different story. To compound this unlike business there seems to be far more interrelation between various components of higher political office than even in corporate America.

I would not expect Romney to post a lower deficit expansion than Obama. The heat he will take wil be unbearable if a rich guy like him tries to hammer poorer people. Actually with his anounced plan to increase military spending by two trillion is already an indicator of still higher deficits.

The essential problem remains. Structural changes are needed. No politician really wants to address this yet. Even minor things by them in comparison seem to take all their efforts to get done.

I think the equivelant of Rosevelts fireside chats are needed today once again. The population has to be made aware of what is really still possible and what is no longer.

Everyone wants the old status quo I suspect. I just do not think it is possible to maintain without serious consequences. The rich are going to get much richer much faster until those structural changes needed are addressed. During the interm period I suspect the so called middle class to continue geting hammered. I also have some issues about any person wanting to be made president at this point in time. Same feeling I had when Obama got the office. All the seriously unresolved issues and resultant fallout move right along the pike into your term of office.

A good business man pays for the right politician. Politicians are tools.

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