Shoot The Horse

clipped from meganmcardle.theatlantic.com Every time a prominent businessman or politician resigns to "spend more time with his family", I think of the economist colleague who pithily completed that sentence: I want to spend more time with my family complaining about getting fired. This Facebook note on Fritz Henderson's abrupt resignation, allegedly by Henderson's daughter, really drives it home: HE F*****G GOT ASKED TO STEP DOWN ALL OF YOU F*****G IDIOTS. I'M FRITZ'S F*****G DAUGHTER, AND HE DID NOT F*****G RESIGN. WHITACRE IS A SELFISH PIECE OF SHIFT [sic], WHO CARES ABOUT HIMSELF AND NOT THE F*****G COMPANY. HAVE FUN WITH GM, I HOPE TO NEVER BUY FROM THIS GOD FORESAKEN [sic] COMPANY EVERY [sic] AGAIN. F**K ALL OF YOU." On the other hand, GM's management strategy right now looks uncomfortably like the policy outlined by one character in Robert Heinlein's Friday: If the horse can't make the jump, shoot the horse.  Continue until one of the horses makes it, or you run out of horses.