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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Brazee) writes: > I'd also like to see that with politics, but politician's pay is > power, and that cannot be deferred. But it is more important for a > President's policy to work for the long term than for a CEO's policy. > Neither should be measured by "not on my term", but both should be > measured by leaving a legacy that lasts. Build for the future - > when the other guys are running the company/country. i think that the comptroller general has suggested something similar for legislation ... that metrics are defined associated for any claimed benefits justifying some legislation ... and if the results fail to meet the metrics ... poof, its gone. however, in speeches that the comptroller general has given over the past yr or so on some aspects of medicare/medicaid legislation ... he has commented that he doesn't believe any congressman in the last fifty yrs has been capable of middle-school arithmatic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
