Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Uh, Really?

This line from the president's speech is getting a lot of laughs out there:

"But by avoiding some of the overhead that gets eaten up at private companies by profits, excessive administrative costs and executive salaries, it could provide a good deal for consumers."

Profits are part of overhead, according to the president. I guess Bearing Point did a really good job lowering its overhead in recent years.

If that's really what the president thinks, then Adam Smith just rolled over in his grave.

1 comment:

MattL said...

re: Adam Smith. Is that how they plan to provide all this Green Energy I keep hearing about? Because the windmills and solar panels sure aren't going to cut it.