Smart, and Not So Smart

[sharonlee]

Originally Posted by Westfield 11

I believe I gave alternate phrasing above that would have made the same point.

I would expect the head of a large corporation like this to be a positive role model for his employees, not a negative one. You and I do not have hundreds of people looking to us to establish a corporate culture and layout acceptable norms of behavior. That responsibility goes with his position and he is being well compensated for that position, I suggest that he live up to the expectations society has placed upon people in his position.

Tell his secretary to give me a call...I'll tell her how to set his laser printer to "stun."

[stuberman]

So 91 Octane is the bad news? Yeah... that works out to about $1.60 more per month for me. I guess I better just give the car away since no one will want to buy it. ;)

Are we sure about Schembri being the head of a large corporation? I count 8 smart dealerships in the Penske Auto Group. That must be what - like maybe 200 employees?

[Winnetou]

I found the following quote from the article very interesting:

[Dave Schembri] said that the dealer network, for example, couldn’t be talked about before authorities from state to state had given final approval to each one. Regulators don’t like people jumping the gun with assumptions that are going to make them say yes, he said. “It would have pre-empted their decision process,” he said.

What a disgraceful demonstration of one of the many evils of government: how politicians and bureaucrats, as well as many government workers (parasites all), think of themselves as kings, to the extent that they are emotionally invested in the perception, and will act out of spite when they feel their authority has been usurped. Think of this, and of the massive, burdensome leech that government has become, as you watch the new television mini-series “John Adams”, and witness with exhilaration the inauguration of George Washington, who remains the greatest president in U.S. history........

[smartxs]

That was a great show last night, wasn't it?!

If some of our leaders today would only have the cojones posessed then.