The Person Of The Year for 2010 was Thomas J. Perez, the Justice Department's unelected menace who refused to allow state college textbooks to be made available on the Kindle because they discriminate against blind people.
The Year Of Our Lord 2011 will require different standards. The Teleprompter Jesus is being more careful these days and isn't regulating, banning, forbidding, subsidizing and porking quite so blatantly with another election looming. Therefore 2011's POTY will be selected by other guidelines, guidelines that reflect the spirit of the last 365 days.
Here goes:
1) All successful people avoid paying taxes, much like all sane people avoid drinking diesel fuel. But to be honored and praised in the year 2011, one must lobby for higher taxes for the wealthy, even if one is wealthy. Warren Buffett, for instance, lobbied for higher taxes while his Berkshire-Hathaway firm was fighting the government (for two years) over a billion-dollar tax bill. The successful applicant for POTY2011 must rise to this level of hypocrisy.
2) I believe that it is none of the government's business if I send jobs to North Dakota, Canada, Mexico, China, the moon, or the ice planet Nekthar. It saves money for my customers, and THAT is what helps an economy grow. This is a minority opinion, though. Some Republican presidential candidates are being pilloried by other Republicans for committing similar Acts Of Capitalism.
Obama has thoroughly condemned anyone who sends a "job" overseas.
To run a large business efficiently, one must seek out the lowest labor rates.
But to gain favor with The Obamessiah, one must blather on and on about saving American jobs.
The successful applicant for POTY2011 will do both.
3) Green, Green, Green !! This is one area where our government Lords'n'Masters still insist on more and more regulation and control. My trucking company is about to jump over some truly idiotic hurdles because of these bundles of red tape. (And oh yes, oh yes, I'll be posting about them.)
They're pointless.
The planet isn't warming.
But these regulations are nice symbolic gestures that keeps little government toads, gremlins and hobbits employed and feeling righteous. The POTY2011 must subsidize, manufacture, market, lobby for, or mandate a product or activity that is nothing more than an expression of Cultural Sanctimony.
He must also profity handsomely from this activity.
4) There has been an unhealthy overlap betwen Obama's Big Government and Big Business for the last year. Well-informed political junkies call it Fascism. Others call it Crony Capitalism, or a rebirth of old-school British Mercantilism.
I generally describe it as Fascism because, of course, that's what it is.
Therefore, the Person Of The Year for 2011 must work for the government and for a major corporation.
At the same time.
Those are the standards by which the Person Of The Year for 2011 will be chosen. I eagerly await the Committee's decision.
Fascism pic came from here.
The Year Of Our Lord 2011 will require different standards. The Teleprompter Jesus is being more careful these days and isn't regulating, banning, forbidding, subsidizing and porking quite so blatantly with another election looming. Therefore 2011's POTY will be selected by other guidelines, guidelines that reflect the spirit of the last 365 days.
Here goes:
1) All successful people avoid paying taxes, much like all sane people avoid drinking diesel fuel. But to be honored and praised in the year 2011, one must lobby for higher taxes for the wealthy, even if one is wealthy. Warren Buffett, for instance, lobbied for higher taxes while his Berkshire-Hathaway firm was fighting the government (for two years) over a billion-dollar tax bill. The successful applicant for POTY2011 must rise to this level of hypocrisy.
2) I believe that it is none of the government's business if I send jobs to North Dakota, Canada, Mexico, China, the moon, or the ice planet Nekthar. It saves money for my customers, and THAT is what helps an economy grow. This is a minority opinion, though. Some Republican presidential candidates are being pilloried by other Republicans for committing similar Acts Of Capitalism.
Obama has thoroughly condemned anyone who sends a "job" overseas.
To run a large business efficiently, one must seek out the lowest labor rates.
But to gain favor with The Obamessiah, one must blather on and on about saving American jobs.
The successful applicant for POTY2011 will do both.
3) Green, Green, Green !! This is one area where our government Lords'n'Masters still insist on more and more regulation and control. My trucking company is about to jump over some truly idiotic hurdles because of these bundles of red tape. (And oh yes, oh yes, I'll be posting about them.)
They're pointless.
The planet isn't warming.
But these regulations are nice symbolic gestures that keeps little government toads, gremlins and hobbits employed and feeling righteous. The POTY2011 must subsidize, manufacture, market, lobby for, or mandate a product or activity that is nothing more than an expression of Cultural Sanctimony.
He must also profity handsomely from this activity.
4) There has been an unhealthy overlap betwen Obama's Big Government and Big Business for the last year. Well-informed political junkies call it Fascism. Others call it Crony Capitalism, or a rebirth of old-school British Mercantilism.
I generally describe it as Fascism because, of course, that's what it is.
At the same time.
Those are the standards by which the Person Of The Year for 2011 will be chosen. I eagerly await the Committee's decision.
Fascism pic came from here.
2 comments:
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric - slam dunk.
Nick nailed it.
Honorable Mention to Jon Corzine. He may not meet all the criteria, but he deserves consideration for sheer chutzpah ("I don't know where the $1.2 billion went").
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