Amazon for President! (The Presidential Essays)

What about having Jeff Bezos and the management team at Amazon.com run the business operations of our country?

U.S. economic independence can only be regained through a concerted, long-term effort. We owe it to future generations of our republic to elect leadership capable of getting the job done. As a nation we must stop raising the debt ceiling and borrowing from foreign governments just to keep ours open for business.

We must think outside the box of our divisive two-party political system and seek innovative solutions together. As voters we must voice our collective displeasure at the lack of commitment shown by our elected representatives in the face of our fiscal emergency.

Only by engaging the best thinking and practices of a leading U.S. business do we have a shot at resolving the most critical fiscal challenges facing our nation. The compelling conclusion is that the best candidate for the job is Jeff Bezos and the Amazon.com management team.

>> A Note for Readers: The content and theme of this essay is purposely quite similar to the others in The Presidential Essays series, including Apple for President! and Walmart for President! (also available on Amazon.com). This version has been customized to reflect Amazon's unique qualifications and readiness as the proposed candidate for running the operations of the executive branch. Most elections offer at least two candidates, and each of us usually views one as more qualified than the others. These essays offer an opportunity to compare highly qualified but very different candidates.