Saturday, February 14, 2009

What Value Will Come Of This? - 2/14/09

The New York Times Business Section is reporting on $7,000.00 suits, a slowdown in luxury home club sales, and a column on the stimulus package. Guess what all three of these have in common? Not one will create consistent, on going value. Not One. When will American Business get its head on straight again? Let's consider the long term value created by businesses like GE, Microsoft, Exxon - Each one recognized its value in its growth stage, and set about improving it daily. The Stimulus Package, The luxury vacation home company, the $7,000.00 suit - these are one time transactions people - they are designed to make us feel good in the short term with no concern for next year. We'll never feel as good about any of these items as we do on the day we buy into them.

We just leveraged the American Dollar for 4 years to support a war and the companies that support our war efforts - What value has come to America? And now the solution is to leverage America even more. We need to understand that Value in all things must be built on fundamental, consistent efforts. We can build value from any starting point with that prospective.

So Business Associates and Executives - the government is making things worse - it is up to us to make American Industry, Business, Workers valuable, to maintain the value we have built our government representative by their decisions continue to wreck value. And I voted for this new government hoping it would be the lesser of two evils.

How should a government operate with value building for its people in mind - Look to Mayor Bloomberg. Simple, accurate, astute recognition of how to preserve and create value in any economic climate.

Build some value every day. (Bloomberg does)

Bradford van Siclen

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