Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 08, 2010
June 07, 2010
June 09, 2010
Transcript:
Man: Here's the problem, Duke - we're getting killed by Admiral allen's one-man briefings! We need our own counter-narrative, our own communications strategy! Is Duke and Associates up to it? Duke: Are serious? This is right in our wheelhouse! We're the guys who rehabbed President Trff's image! Man: How can you tell? Duke: Assassination attempts off 45%? Don't you read the trades? Man: Interesting metric.
Let me add something to that…
Cost incentive is pretty powerful on the private sector, but not so on governments. If a private operation blows up, literally or figuratively, it’s lost source(s) of income and has new expenses to deal with. If a public enterprise explodes, the government simply raises taxes, or prints money, or borrows money.
Chernobyl was also a public-sector operation…