The Jobs President hires a lay-off CEO

<![CDATA[The Daily KOS cuts to the bone of President Bush’s selection of Carlos Gutierrez, CEO of Kellog Co. as the next Secretary of Commerce.
Now, I am going to give the Neocons credit for their diversity. It is really great that people, like Gutierrez, who is Cuban-born, are being nominated to the Cabinet. There is true diversity in America today, not because of these people, but because white liberals of privilege first reached out to establish diversity as an essential criterion for freedom.
It’s unfortunate, though, that the criteria for selection to the second Bush Cabinet is that, regardless of color, one must be a mindless ideologue who supports the neocon agenda without dissent.
Now, why is Gutierrez the right pick if his record for job creation is, as KOS points out, dismal? Because the Bush Administration sees the United States as a candidate for restructuring—radical restructuring, including massive layoffs to improve returns to the richest one percent of Americans who own lots more of the country than the huge numbers of small and medium-sized business owners who actually create most of the economic value described as GDP.]]>