Comments on: Pittsburgh’s G-20 investment http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/2009/pittsburghs-g-20-investment Locally owned and operated from Cleveland, OH since 2002 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:07:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ed Morrison http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/2009/pittsburghs-g-20-investment/comment-page-1#comment-3618 Ed Morrison Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:04:55 +0000 http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/?p=2072#comment-3618 Cleveland's kleptocrats. Nice ring. Cleveland’s kleptocrats.

Nice ring.

]]> By: John Polk http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/2009/pittsburghs-g-20-investment/comment-page-1#comment-3617 John Polk Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:55:57 +0000 http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/?p=2072#comment-3617 Organizations, businesses and institutions don't lead. People do. The success or failure of organizations is attributable to the people who lead and govern them. By most objective standards of measurement, our organizations and institutions are failing. Yet they remain largely in the hands of the same group of oligarchs who have run and governed them for the past 15 years. Despite their increasingly obvious incompetence, and the role they've played in enabling the current culture of corruption, these same leaders continue bumping and stumbling along, largely unaccountable for the results of their machinations. Which can only lead to the conclusion that our institutional leaders are doing what their overseers want them to do, and that the community's decline is irrelevant compared to the gains being achieved by the beneficiaries of the status quo. It is too much to expect that the federal investigation into county corruption will accomplish much. If the previous investigation into the kleptocracy which was the White Administration is any indicator, a few lower-level guys will take the fall, together with a few contractors who were dumb enough to get caught on a wire. The big players, the real corruptors, will skate. Because as has been the case for centuries, the biggest crooks have the best lawyers... Organizations, businesses and institutions don’t lead. People do. The success or failure of organizations is attributable to the people who lead and govern them.

By most objective standards of measurement, our organizations and institutions are failing. Yet they remain largely in the hands of the same group of oligarchs who have run and governed them for the past 15 years.

Despite their increasingly obvious incompetence, and the role they’ve played in enabling the current culture of corruption, these same leaders continue bumping and stumbling along, largely unaccountable for the results of their machinations.

Which can only lead to the conclusion that our institutional leaders are doing what their overseers want them to do, and that the community’s decline is irrelevant compared to the gains being achieved by the beneficiaries of the status quo.

It is too much to expect that the federal investigation into county corruption will accomplish much. If the previous investigation into the kleptocracy which was the White Administration is any indicator, a few lower-level guys will take the fall, together with a few contractors who were dumb enough to get caught on a wire.

The big players, the real corruptors, will skate. Because as has been the case for centuries, the biggest crooks have the best lawyers…

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