A business owner who wants his company to thrive in the long term cares about the job satisfaction of everyone in his employ. He or she aims to have the janitors and secretaries as proud to work for the company as any of its executives because he or she knows that morale in a business is a communal affair

Of course, there is as much variety in the personality of business owners as there is in that of politicians. And to be sure, there are business owners who don’t give a damn about the janitors and secretaries, just as there are politicians who don’t give a damn about rebuilding a major city destroyed because of their neglect for its environment and infrastructure.

George W. Bush in the past honked his own horn claiming to be a “C.E.O President.” Lucky for him, the country is not traded publicly, because any C.E.O. of a publicly held company who were to run up a deficit the way Bush has run up a deficit would have his rear-end handed to him on a tally whacker by his stockholders.

Both the House and the Senate have recently passed bills which, although in competition with each other, call for large tax cuts. Bush has threatened to veto the Senate bill if it does not eliminate a windfall profits tax on major oil companies.

Bush’s threat should be recognized for the obscenity it is.

That the Bush family fortunes are tied to oil is no secret. That the major oil companies raised their gasoline and home heating oil prices by historical and enormous percentages, out of all proportion to supply and demand, is also a matter of record.

The price gouging on the part of the major oil companies in the wake of Katrina was unconscionable. Likewise unconscionable is Bush’s having promised a major reconstruction effort in New Orleans, by all reports dropped since he announced it, followed by his threat to veto a bill placing a windfall profits tax on major oil companies.

Any decent person with a social conscience will feel like screaming over this set of circumstances. Bush allows the major oil companies to reap windfall profits off of Katrina at the same time that he refuses to tax those companies and refuses to help rebuild New Orleans.

This is because he is the sort of greedy, horrid C.E.O. type who doesn’t give a flying you-know-what about the janitors, the secretaries, and just about anybody else, other than himself and his bigoted mother. He is more a Kenneth Lay and an Andrew Fastow than a Bill Gates or an Oprah Winfrey.