Political Business Expectations

First let me be clear that my purpose here is business oriented, not political.

In teaching my Dale Carnegie corporate classes over the past few years, we have used a term that we call the "new business reality". Simply stated it is: "Do more, better, faster, and with less". When we ask for a show of hands as to agreement that it fits, we see about 90% of the hands go up. This is reality for most of us.

So here is my thought - if our companies expect this of us, why don't we as tax payers expect the same of our elected officials?

How about your mayor? Township officials? Board of Education? State Government? Let's draw a line in the sand and say to them "We the taxpayers expect you to do more, do it better, faster and with less, just like we have to in our businesses."

It would be refreshing to see some one run for the school board on the platform "I am for the taxpayer". Conventional wisdom would say that means that this candidate is against the children and their education. The new business reality would say that in fact this candidate is for more and better education with less spending.

Is it unreasonable to expect elected officials to live in the same reality as the rest of us? - I don't think so.