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I think Americans are going to realize exactly what "run the government like a Trump-branded business" really means. The anti-climate change and pro-business at

I think Americans are going to realize exactly what "run the government like a Trump-branded business" really means. The anti-climate change and pro-business attitude the GOP has doesn't suddenly mean jobs and wealth for all. It means rolling back protections like these. We just saw our browsing data privacy taken from us and now this is probably going to happen. Not sure what Trump voters were expecting, but this is it. I hope they're happy with it.

nkrisc 10y ago
This is why I never understood the "run the government like a business" concept. Business and governments do very different things. You wouldn't run a business like a government and running a government like a business is no better.
- psj 10y ago
  Indeed. If you were to truly run the government like you'd run a business, wouldn't you "fire" all the older people who are no longer performing at an acceptable level i.e. retired?
  - VLM 10y ago
    From a .gov perspective performance and production is measured not by working, but by voting, and voting rates are excellent for older people.
    - psj 10y ago
      That's one more way a government isn't a business. Also, didn't Trump campaign on generally minimizing government? Did (does) he also run his businesses in such as way so as to "minimize" them? Obviously there are approaches that make sense to be common to running both business and government (that probably apply to most everything else as well because they'd seem like "common sense") but, at a high level, to say "run government like a business" is one of those things that only sounds reasonable (possibly) until you think about it.
    - InitialLastName 10y ago
      Disagree. In this stretched analogy, performance might be measured by voting, but production is measured by tax paying (i.e. contribution to the revenue stream).

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I think Americans are going to realize exactly what "run the government like a Trump-branded business" really means. The anti-climate change and pro-business at

by drzaiusapelord 10y ago

nkrisc 10y ago
This is why I never understood the "run the government like a business" concept. Business and governments do very different things. You wouldn't run a business like a government and running a government like a business is no better.
- psj 10y ago
  Indeed. If you were to truly run the government like you'd run a business, wouldn't you "fire" all the older people who are no longer performing at an acceptable level i.e. retired?
  - VLM 10y ago
    From a .gov perspective performance and production is measured not by working, but by voting, and voting rates are excellent for older people.
    - psj 10y ago
      That's one more way a government isn't a business. Also, didn't Trump campaign on generally minimizing government? Did (does) he also run his businesses in such as way so as to "minimize" them? Obviously there are approaches that make sense to be common to running both business and government (that probably apply to most everything else as well because they'd seem like "common sense") but, at a high level, to say "run government like a business" is one of those things that only sounds reasonable (possibly) until you think about it.
    - InitialLastName 10y ago
      Disagree. In this stretched analogy, performance might be measured by voting, but production is measured by tax paying (i.e. contribution to the revenue stream).