Prudent Risk Morphed into Today’s Missing Backbone

November22, 2010

Thanksgiving is a national holiday that transcends race, ethnicity, class, and gender for we stop to give thanks for the bounty that this great nation offers each day.  We reflect on the great sacrifices of our fore parents to develop the greatest nation in the history of mankind.  However, the key elements our fore parents displayed were boldness to standup to and action upon the great challenges of their epoch.  

Today, we are in the midst of Great Depression II where the Tea Party Movement is trying to have us second guessing our presidential leadership.  The Tea Party Movement proclamation, “The Giant Is Awake is a proposed platform for Tea Partiers and all centrists to efficiently regain control of the government, clean up Washington, and use the political parties to our advantage. It also proposes how to never let our country be attacked from within again.”

The Tea Party Movement is nothing more than a modern day iteration of yesteryear’s Ku Klux Klan that worked hard at dividing the nation along racial lines in the midst of a global economic war to maintain our standard of living. It is very disquieting to think that the Tea Party Movement may be following a mantra of the Ku Klux Klan. “. . . The Ku Klux Klan is 100 per cent for White Supremacy, Restricted Immigration, Protestantism, and Law Enforcement.”

When Americans should be celebrating Thanksgiving 2010 we find ourselves watching the dawn of a joint Republican Party and Tea Party Movement effort budding in the US Congress to encumber progressive moves by President Barack Obama through exploiting acts of racism above the good of the nation.

Their trickery may have an unintended consequence of destroying yesteryears backbone in our corporate leadership. “Bureau of Economic Analysis: Despite widespread unemployment, the BEA reports that U.S. corporations, reluctant to expand in an uncertain economy, are sitting on $1.6 trillion in cash reserves, a record amount.” ‘These 1.6 trillion dollars is comparable to 16 million 100,000 dollar bills. 

President Abraham Lincoln found himself in the midst of a divided nation where Confederates were hell bent on undermining President Lincoln’s efforts to preserve the Union.  President Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War, on October 3, 1863.

Thanksgiving 2010 finds President Barack Obama caught in the midst of a global economic war to preserve America’s high living standard faced with a problem similar to Republican President Abraham Lincoln who had to fight with incapable general leaders. General George McClellan did not have the shrewdness to get into the rotten killing that is the nature of war. Hence President Lincoln had to take some decisive action to turn the tied of battle by appointing a tough hard nosed warrior general in Ulysses S. Grant who took the battle to the enemy.

Battling Incompetence ,“Lincoln changed the command structure of the Union army several times before choosing Ulysses S. Grant as the general-in-chief who could lead Union forces to final victory. George McClellan, Lincoln’s first appointment as general-in-chief, was, even after Lincoln rescinded that higher appointment, the most popular commander of the Army of the Potomac, the main Union army in the East. But McClellan lost Lincoln’s confidence because of his reluctance to take offensive action. When the general failed to pursue the retreating Confederate army after the Battle of Antietam in 1862, Lincoln removed him from command. Under McClellan’s first two successors—Ambrose E. Burnside and Joseph Hooker—the failures mounted.”   

In 1864 President Lincoln selected Ulysses S. Grant to lead the Union forces because he had the backbone and courage to fight the Confederacy and win.  President Barack Obama needs to appeal to America’s rich and super rich to use their influence in providing backbone to corporate management to use the abundant resources they have on hand to start creating jobs. Overly conservative management should be rated as contributors to unnecessary financial trouble for America’s unemployed by being risk adverse when the nation needs business leaders capable of taking prudent risks. Who will be the wealthy American to demonstrate acumen in encouraging her or his peers to make “you are hired” once again an American dream comes true?  

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