David Davis
“My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.”
– Barack Obama
To what? Look, I know I’m just a bumpkin in Lancashire, but if your nation is the greatest in the history of the world, then your forebears must have been doing something right? Or are you just a Stalinist so-and-so like the rest of the outfit now running Westmonster, England?
I can’t stand this socialist obsession with “change”. “Change” was (is?) what management consultants try to foist onto often perfectly well-run businesses, for no other reason than to justify their huge (good for them if they can get away with it) fees. If “change” is required, then it occurs because the responsible managers are clever enough to spot its need and deal with it. If they are not, get new ones.
When working in Marketing in the 70s and 80s, I made a point of never hiring anyone whatsoever who had studied at a “business school”, nor who came from a “consultancy”, nor who had not done at least three years in line management in a business making or selling something - preferably they’d been “out on the road” for some of this time.
I always stressed the primacy of “sales” over “marketing” as departments, and that the later, my speciality, was only a service for the salesmen, although a clever and important one with much power for good; this was regarded as not only inverted-logic and unpopular but also heretical.
None of my hirees was ever later fired for incompetence, and some went on to run large firms.
For Life, Liberty and Property
10 responses so far ↓
Mark // 25 March, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Are you seriously saying that anyone who wants to change anything about America hates the country?
Ian Geldard // 25 March, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Would it be possible to stop writing titles in full capitals? It is considered as ’shouting’ on the Net and gives a poor impression. Just a thought.
Ian
David Davis // 26 March, 2008 at 10:28 am
I thought they’d stand out better. Possibly even get higher up the pages on google, or at least be more likely to get clicked.
David Davis // 26 March, 2008 at 10:40 am
Fixed it ,Ian.
David Davis // 26 March, 2008 at 10:44 am
For Mark, I do not suggest that _everyone_ who thinks America ought to change is a lefty.
Just nearly all of them.
Specially the self-regarding ones with very very clear ideas about how the USA ought to be attenuated, who get powerful _because_ they want to make “changes” which will be regarded by most private Americans (many of whom are often pejoratively labelled as “rednecks”
as deeply wrong and damaging, to the (not directed) structure of America.
Steven // 26 March, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I haven’t taken to the bloke, largely because I don’t seem to know anything about him. I mean, apart from, shall we say, collectivism, what does he stand for? It should be admitted though, it would be interesting to see what would happen if he were elected, from a solely voyeuristic point of view.
Or…maybe not eh?
David Davis // 26 March, 2008 at 4:13 pm
He might turn out to be OK. I do not know. But the word “change” (see the post above) makes my blood - as a conservative minimal-statist libertarian - boil.
I don’t think any of us would enjoy watching the USA being unstitched at the seams, like what has been done to the UK.
Peter Risdon // 27 March, 2008 at 4:08 pm
The quote is an Urban Legeand. Obama didn’t say it.
Wally // 13 April, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I don’t know if he said this all together, but he has said it. He has asked voters to join him in changing America and has called America the greatest nation in the world. So yes he wants and will screw things up if elected!
James // 24 April, 2008 at 8:01 pm
The Barak Obama quote is fake i.e. he never really said that. Please check your sources before spreading false information.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/change.asp
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