| Mike Sykuta |
The Obama administration has apparently revealed its recipe for economic recovery. Based on the rhetoric and policy proposals fronted thus far, the recipe appears as follows:
- Do everything possible to discourage potential high-value executives from working in troubled industries by capping executive pay in struggling industries.
- Eliminate high-powered market-based incentives for mid-level employees to perform their jobs well.
- Encourage distressed companies to renege on long-term contracts that populist politicians find offensive (or consider easy to target so as to appear they are being responsible with taxpayers’ money).
- Dole out a trillion dollars of taxpayer funds to pet projects and interest groups in the name of “economic stimulus” (enabled by the perception of “responsibility” created by their railing against the targets of #1-3).
- Ignore the economic consequences of the incentives created (or destroyed) in #1-3 as well as the fact that someone at some point will have…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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