{"id":127,"date":"2007-09-27T06:04:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T11:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/fear-and-loathing-in-grand-rapids\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T06:04:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T11:04:04","slug":"fear-and-loathing-in-grand-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Loathing in Grand Rapids&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0618.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0618.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0618.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, September 17, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Drawing editorial cartoons for a Business Journal, it&#8217;s hard not to make comparisons between the business world and the government world. Yes, yes, they&#8217;re different animals. Both worlds have their own nuances. And we all know that being a successful CEO doesn&#8217;t necessarily make you an electable public servant, right Mr. Perot? Mr. DeVos?<\/p>\n<p>But still, you look at what makes a successful business successful &#8212; things like respecting customers, building honest relationships with customers, not patronizing the customers &#8212; and it&#8217;s difficult to understand why this wouldn&#8217;t translate directly into good practices in government.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Dick Cheney was in Grand Rapids recently to follow up on the General Petraeus testimonies on the Iraq War. It wasn&#8217;t big news, even locally. It was the standard fare of ominous warnings framed in patriotic tones and followed up with the usual &#8220;now go about your business and stay out of mine.&#8221; (Actually, now that I think about it, that&#8217;s probably exactly how Cheney ran Haliburton.) Kinda makes me all misty for Ross Perot&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, September 17, 2007 Drawing editorial cartoons for a Business Journal, it&#8217;s hard not to make comparisons between the business world and the government world. Yes, yes, they&#8217;re different animals. Both worlds have their own nuances. And we all know that being a successful CEO doesn&#8217;t necessarily make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}