CNN’s morning programming is typically a non-stop attack on President Trump. Occasionally Chris Cuomo backs into the truth, which he did today in an exchange with Alisyn Camerota about sexual harassment:
CAMEROTA: I mean, it’s a tidal wave. Every day, we have breaking news. Every day, it feels like, we have breaking news on some sort of sexual harassment. It has been pointed out, look at the people being fired in our business, in the media, huge names, Bill O’Reilly, and Matt Lauer, being fired. And in Congress, it sort of lingers while ethics commissions form and people investigate it. And, you know, we heard a lawmaker say, but we are elected, the people are their bosses.
CUOMO: That’s exactly right.
CAMEROTA: They can be fired the next election day.
CUOMO: But that — that’s the difference. The difference is, if you work for a company, the company decides your fate, if it wants, almost instantaneously.
CAMEROTA: We’ve seen that.
CUOMO: Not true in government. We’re seeing that play out in real time.
Did you catch that? Cuomo conceded that business is more responsive than government when it comes to issues like sexual harassment. He’s right, but this responsiveness doesn’t end with workplace harassment. Businesses are under constant pressure to satisfy fickle customers, who are free to go elsewhere if they aren’t satisfied with the project, the service, or the organization in general. The market enforces a certain level of responsiveness. Companies make mistakes, but there’s built-in immediate accountability.
The choices available with government are more limited or nonexistent. If you don’t like social security, you can’t choose another retirement option instead. If you don’t like the tax code, you still have to pay your taxes. Our representatives exempt themselves from many of the laws they pass and frequently hide behind the bureaucracy when expedient. They face elections every several years (depending on the office), but the bureaucrats who run the IRS, EPA, HHS, and other government agencies do not. Responsiveness is directly related to choice. When compared to the private sector, government gives us much less of each.
Our federal government must be more accountable, but it will always be less responsive and less efficient than the private sector. This is why government should be limited and empowered to do what it must, but no more. As Henry David Thoreau famously noted, “That government is best which governs least.”
I guess Chris Cuomo gets it right once in a while.
Clearly a freudian slip. Cuomo does that once in a while.
Chris Cuomo is a fraud, but he’s right. The media criticizes business, but it’s government that won’t change.
…so CNN is complimenting the business world for being responsive. This is a first.
The swamp in Washington is deep and wide. This is the tip of the iceberg.
You said it in the first line. CNN is a nonstop bash of DJT. They don’t even pay attention to their own arguments. If it hurts Trump, they say it.