The Chris Townsend Show

Political Cornerby Stephen Thompson, posted on Thu, Apr. 2, 2009

It’s been weeks since I have spoken about our country and its political environment.   Barack has a 66 percent approval rating.   The Car companies are not making money and the federal government has done little to stop the Banking industry from making money.
According to many experts, the finical industry will make billions off of the Gaitner plan.   Billions.   They have completely screwed the world economy and we are going back to Wall Street to get their opinion on correcting the market.
Frankly, I am pissed.   I am pissed because Obama has promised a new way of doing business. He wanted to get involvement from everyone and folks not normally heard from in DC.   However, Obama, a Harvard grad has decided to bring more Harvard clowns to the white house.
I’ve worked closely with Harvard people over the last 10 years.   So you will find a person who graduated from Harvard business school worth his weight in Gold.   But for every one you find that is great, you will find 5 others that are ass clowns.
It seems that Ass clowns have been running our country for the last couple of years and I think the New Presidential administration is filling up with new Ass clowns daily.    You may not know these clowns, but they work at companies like Mckinsey and Bain.   They are consultants for 1 to 2 years.   They learn how companies are structured and how to reduce cost. After years of traveling and living in hotels, they run to Goldman Sachs and your favorite Venture Capital firms.   These ASS Clowns are exceptional students. The love to analyze a problem and tell you about the problem.   However, very few of them actually know how to solve problems.    But, they can tell you why their education and exposure to the world economy has taught them to deal with serious economic and political problems by looking at data and little history.   These ass clowns are not risk takers.   I mean they take risk, but with your money , time and energy.   Many of them have never put their own dollar into a venture to see it go bust.   They have not started a business. They work for successful companies.   Companies that have already been built and now they want to be more streamlined.   Simple example of this   Hank Paulson former CEO of Goldman Sachs and former Secretary of the Treasury, Jamie Dimon Former CEO of Citigroup, Jeff Immult, CEO of GE and of course George Bush Jr.
So that brings us back to Obama.    Why the hell is he hiring people from Wall Street that went to rich Ivy League schools. What, are their no smart people outside of the East coast? Shit, most of these ass clowns have not had to work for a living and/or pay for their own college, but they are smart and gifted enough to lead our banks and political organizations.
So Obama has hired a lot of former HBS, McKinsey and Goldman scumbags to be in his administration.   He brought back Lawrence summers as a financial advisor.   Everywhere you look, you can throw up on a Harvard grad in the White House
Don’t expect to see anything good out of this Group. They suck… They, in general, are policy folks without exception.
I predict that this Administration will get in trouble and have to find expert advice outside of the Northeast.     President Obama will finally go away from the Ivy League for advice and start listening to those folks that went to state schools and Land-grant colleges.   In two years, we might see the first person from San Diego State appointed to the Treasury and then we'll start to see a recovery.