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MS. PERINO: The President has been briefed on all these numbers. He gets a regular briefing; he’s very interested in making sure that he is kept up to date. There is no doubt, as he has said, that we are in a softening of the economy, we’re in a slowdown. What the President has worked to do with bipartisan members of Congress is to pass a short-term stimulus package of $157 billion, checks of which will be headed to taxpayers within the next couple of months; in addition to that, giving small business owners and other businesses tax incentives that they can put into — that they can start using right now, so that they can get that into their operations and help us — help the whole economy prevent how deep the cycle will be. external



Ok, the subordinate explains what is done to keep the leader up to date.


On one issue particularly worrisome to American consumers, there are indications that paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline is not out of the question once the summer driving season arrives. Asked about that, [President] Bush said “That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that. … I know it’s high now.” external



I haven’t heard that?

Either Ms. Perino was lying with her statement that the President is briefed regularly. Or the briefings are useless—because the President isn’t informed properly. Or President Bush can’t understand the briefing or follow them.

What is it?

One thing is for sure: This is everything but leadership. One of the 13 deadly sins of Stop Telling… Start Leading! The Art of Managing People by Asking Questions is: Let Everything Go Uncontrolled. Looking at Ms. Perino’s and President’s Bush statement—do you think that anybody is in control in the White House?

They have the slightest clue what is going on?

I’ve said it before: This is no leadership. Countries in economical trouble need leadership. Or the trouble worsens. America has to deal with a lot of other things that many things are handled wrongfully: The Iraq War, health care, immigration, the fight of terrorism to name but a few.

But let’s face it: If too many people have to turn every penny twice (gasoline is now well above $5 a gallon in CA) an elected leader stating: “I hadn’t heard that.” shows nothing but a lot of ignorance. Towards those that put him in power in the first place. Looking back in history—wars have been started on the grounds of badly handled economical downturns. Sure, there is the stimulus package, but it hasn’t arrived yet and how much influence will it has?

Many think it’s too little too late.

On the other hand, some companies post ever higher profits while cutting low ranked employees income and cutting the work force. But to whom are these companies going to sell their products when the average person will be living below the poverty rate?

It used to be that top managers and companies understood their ethical and economical responsibility of ensuring the wealth of everyone—to guarantee their own survival. Now it looks like the only thing that counts is profit.

Where is a leader when the country needs one?



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