The Party of Business is missing in action
Imagine if a company CEO’s actions were actually harming the company that they were hired to steward. Perhaps they destroyed large markets for product lines by offending major clients right off the bat after being hired. Imagine if the CEO enacted company policies that increased the costs of shipping, or increased prices of raw materials needed to produce their company’s products. This would diminish profit margins or might even result in selling at a loss due to an inability to ship.
Imagine if it came to the point of not only shareholder stock price decreasing and not getting a dividend, but having to pay the company for merely being a shareholder. Call it a shareholder tariff.
It’s hard to believe that the CEO’s tenure wouldn’t be short-lived. So to see the “Party of Business,” supporting their national CEO while he drives the American shareholders’ 29 trillion dollar company into the ground, is quite contradictory. This is despite taking an oath to support and defend the company’s mission statement.
Furthermore, the CEO is asking the shareholders to fund increased corporate security by borrowing more money, while providing little additional protection for the shareholders, especially those believing in “Company First,” while the CEO gets to build a shareholder-funded, multimillion-dollar bunker to hide in. In business, all it would take would be a vote of the Board of Directors to get rid of such a harmful, underperforming CEO. Clearly, a government is not a business.