November 11, 2009

Why Ulysses Grant Sucked: The Song


18. Ulysses Grant

Capo 4
A, A/G#, A/G, A/F#

oh Ulysses
you’re a war hero
but your competence
stands around zero

filling your cabinet
with friendship over merit
was fun for about a day

you thought that you could use them
but they thought the same of you and
their abuses still astonish us today

black Friday
credit mobilier
whiskey ring just to name a few

oh Ulysses, what are you going to do?
what are you going to do? what are you going to do?

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November 10, 2009

Pay-for-Performance Politicians

If I was hiring a CEO for my company, my ideal pay setup for him would be that he would receive a progressive amount of stock options based on the company's EPS stock performance growth 10 years down the line. So, no concentration on short-term market trickery to cash out early. But only a CEO who increases the long-term value of the company would be paid, and if successful, could be paid mightily. Is there any way that politicians could be incentivized in a similar way?
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