Balmer to create tax return - for the Government
Steve Balmer is trying to put together an overall business document showing spending in the United States Government. It's not quite done yet, but it will show how much we actually spend in which sectors. While I'm not a fan of Ballmer from his time at Microsoft, this project intrigues me because it's all about objective data on spending. But perhaps the best line was the most obvious one:
"One challenge they faced early on was figuring out how to divide the government into business units. After several failed approaches, a staffer suggested a look through the Constitution. "The Constitution!" Ballmer recalled, suddenly speaking many decibels louder as he got up to diagram the segments on a massive Microsoft Surface Hub touchscreen computer. "It's the perfect way!"
DUH!!!!
"One challenge they faced early on was figuring out how to divide the government into business units. After several failed approaches, a staffer suggested a look through the Constitution. "The Constitution!" Ballmer recalled, suddenly speaking many decibels louder as he got up to diagram the segments on a massive Microsoft Surface Hub touchscreen computer. "It's the perfect way!"
DUH!!!!
Yeah, well, that's a troll. Same thing,
Thinking out loud by tapping keys here.
What I saw great potential in is the separation by Constitutional duty - meaning that one it is finally admitted that certain duties being carried out aren't Constitutionally authorized, we can get pretty quick cost savings estimates for chopping those programs which can provide a counterpoint to any CBO estimates.
Very much so.
What we should work on in conjunction with his work is somehow preventing majority stock holders have Anything to say within the corporations they hold stock in.
The free market should be able to determine whom it will do business with.
I stated in my book that if the corporation just concentrates on the end users....the investors will do just fine.
The way I see it, we have to stop all this crony crap, non humans from exerting too much control or someone that's Only worried about money at the expense of the consumer. As I said, if the corporation and the heads of the corporation concentrated on honestly competing, creating business, bring genuine value without harm to the end user...the investors will make out just fine.
It's just the opposite in today's world.
I also point out that the invention of so called professional CEO's ruined the value once created by the originator of the business product or service. Most so called pro's know squat about the business. All they know is influence and connections. They just perpetuate business instead of creating business. It would never get that way if the original value creator was always in charge or at least passed on to someone whom started at the bottom and worked their way up and had reverence for all the employees that make everything work. That is what has been lost by hiring a know-nothing to run the business. I have observed this my whole life because I never was able to stay at anyone place during my working life like my father did. Businesses would be great for a while, some other creature would come along to run things and it all would fall apart and I'd be back on the street looking for what I could do next.
But I agree...this needs some more thinkin about...this is just where I am on this now.