A Proposal for a New Type of Presidency

Candidate-for-President Mitt Romney says he'd hire McKinsey and Co, one of the world's largest consulting companies to tell him how to run the government. Let's forget, for a moment, that McKinsey and many other consulting mega-firms already have enormous contracts with the government - I have a better idea. Instead of letting individuals run for president why don't we let the big consulting companies run for president? McKinsey and Co vs. KPMG (Bearing Point now) or Boston Consulting Group (BCG) vs. Anderson and Co. for example. We the people could issue an RFP (request for proposal) and each firm could give us their best proposal in a closed bid and we could vote on it. The budget has to be part of the proposal and there could be no wars unless they were part of the proposal we voted on.

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