According to the NYT, it’s 31-year-old Brian Deese that’s handling the break up of General Motors, turning it into “Government Motors.” And how is he qualified? Let’s just say he can compete with President Obama for who has the thinner resume. From the NYT piece:
…Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry.
I feel a little bad for ousted CEO Rick Wagoner, who’s received a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Havard, and has worked at G.M. for many years. Here comes Mr. Deese, not having his Yale diploma even and zero experience in the auto industry, but thanks to his work at the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, he now gets to decide what happens to this iconic American company.
Merely a “special assistant to the president for economic policy,” he makes rounds to the Treasury to discuss and influence decision makers about the American auto industry, and even the NYT raises a point about his lack of training and experience:
Mr. Deese’s role is unusual for someone who is neither a formally trained economist nor a business school graduate, and who never spent much time flipping through the endless studies about the future of the American and Japanese auto industries.
So what does this say about the Obama administration and its handling of the trouble auto industry? Does it really have the people’s interest in mind when it allows an industry amateur to influence policy?
