Saturday, November 30, 2019

Buttigieg's shadowy past

This article discusses his 3-year work with the highly secretive international management firm McKinsey and Company. Buttigieg has a nondisclosure agreement with them so won't talk about it, but we must include it in our evaluation of determining what kind of agenda he will seek to implement. This company description gives a huge clue:

"The company essentially dispatches rosy-cheeked Rhodes scholars to clients all over the world to tell them how they can become more efficient and effective. This can mean many different things. Sometimes, it means McKinsey employees tell a business how many people to fire. (In The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business, financial journalist Duff McDonald describes McKinsey as the "single greatest legitimiser of mass lay-offs... in modern history.") Sometimes, it means advising authoritarian governments and state-run businesses; McKinsey consultants have worked with Chinese firms acting in opposition to U.S. interests and gone on to work at the Russian energy companies they were advising. Past McKinsey clients include Enron, Purdue Pharma, and Saudi Arabia. This is a company that tells other companies (and governments) how to be as ruthless as possible, and dresses up its methods in a bunch of acronyms and buzzwords."

We the people must demand of him an accounting of this part of his past. And beware of how he tries to answer for it, for he is a corporate wolf in liberal clothing.

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