I don’t disagree but if you did want to run your country as a business why would you choose a guy with multiple bankruptcies including casinos. Seems like it would take a real lack of business acumen to bankrupt a casino
Conservatives know everything ‘bout ‘business’ but never question why universities offer degrees for Public Administration and degrees for Business Administration.
They are not the same because their purposes for existing are entirely incongruent.
Doug Ford has always run Ontario like a business & we r fucked up now! Cutting essential services to make his buddies richer, lying to Ontarians every time he opens his yap. When the fuck with Ontarians smarten up? Now our issue is the pathetic opposition leaders. Same shit as the last election!
Exactly! It's one thing to eliminate overpriced toilets and another thing to eliminate jobs that keep us safe. It's also against the laws of our country!😡
Correct me if I'm wrong. At one stage in America, I believe the fire services were run by insurance companies and wouldn't try to save your house if you were with the wrong company. As we are told both here in Australia and now in the USA private enterprise does everything better. Why did that stop?
This started with the Reagan administration, continued with both Bush administrations, and has gotten worse with Trump. They want to be the corporate overloads of the American people.
And the number and diversity of services our government must provide are vast and complex, essential to manage a large, complex nation that, at least up until recently, has led the world in so many ways.
Well a certain German leader once wrote a manifesto about how govnt should run and one of his ideas was that the leader is the CEO and the country is the business….naturally rump wanted to copy him.
We also don’t want a federal fire department. The federal government should provide an ability to defend against an outside threat and provide a path for interstate commerce. That’s all. The rest should be handled by the most local level possible.
The same could be said for our hospitals and the entire health care system in this country. It is outrageously wrong. Healthcare, like the government are in service of the population, not the other way around.
They told all the morons that being social was "socialism" and knowing things, aka being "woke" was stupid. And having no fucking idea what either is, or the intelligence to research it even though everyone carries a device with them everyday that has the ability to do so bought that shit.
🎤I'd sure as hell like to know too.
What they're doing is taking their little paint brushes and broad stroking everything with it not giving a damn that not everyone is the same and requires various different things.
It isn’t « profitable » to provide weather services to sparsely populated areas — you know, where the farmers are! Also not profitable to provide postal service to less populated areas — where many small businesses are, & with many folks who need the mail for critical products & services…
Everyone has it exactly backwards: they want businesses to be "purpose driven" and have social responsibility, and governments to be "profit driven" and have fiscal responsibility.
This all stems from faulty economics. We need more people to #LearnMMT and understand how govt finance works
It’s like the USPS versus FedEx, or public schools versus private schools. There’s room for both, but they have fundamentally different purposes. One exists to serve everyone, even the unprofitable, while the other serves only who they choose.
I hate the idea of my country run like a business. Most corporations don’t give a shit about their employees or people. Some are beholden to share holders only. Having a country with a small vocal rich minority is called an oligarchy not a democracy.
Or maybe "profit" needs to be thought of and measured differently for government departments than for capitalist businesses. If a well run government results in increased life expectancy, higher quality of life, greater happiness/well being and reduction in violence and harm, that is profit too.
Private for-profit firefighters? Yes! That's EXACTLY what they want! And for-profit every other service provided by the government. They want to profit off birth, living and death. Elmo Skunk must be REMOVED from this planet.
Exactly! Then when the business folds an goes out of business like so many of Trumps experiments, then what? What happens to the country you wanted run like a business? Pfffft!
"Hello, this is the FD, what can we help you with?"
"My house on fire!"
"How much money do you have?"
"Money? I have no money!".
"Sorry, but we can not help you, we are just like hospitals, only profit!".
I just finished emailing every senator in every red state how I’m holding them accountable for the downfall of the US and how their complacency is corrupting the US further. I urge everyone to email all of them. They don’t have to be your senator.
Sixty years ago I heard my father say a government should not be run like a business. My father wasn't a formally educated man, but he was well-read and a practical thinker. Republicans are proving him right.
20 years ago, W. instituted No Child Left Behind, aka No Child Gets Ahead, specifically to dumb down the populace. 20 years later, here we are with the results.
I’m sorry sir. I’m looking at your account and you only bought the plan that provides for %50 of the water used after you provide 8250 gallons yourself.
We used to have fire fighters who worked based on whether you had signed up for their service or not. We decided that didn’t work so well. At least we decided that once.
Washington and Franklin used startup fire companies as experiments to study democracy in action, to test their theories. When they were proven to be trustworthy and reliable (unlike the private fire companies reputations) they expanded. Many depts were named after founding fathers.
Founding Fathers. The "Union Fire Company" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is considered the first volunteer fire department in the United States and was established by Benjamin Franklin.
Still in operation under the same name and building!
Paying firefighters to defend your home sounds like something Donny learned from his mob friends back in his earlier NYC days. Those guys called it a protection racket.
Subscriptions for fire department protection was actually a thing in 18th & 19th centuries. If you paid, your house was issued a "firesign" and received service. Otherwise, burn, baby.
The MAGA people still believe in trickle down economics. So cutting off aid to kids and seniors, and then giving tax breaks to billionaires, is ok in their minds. Sad.
The waste that does exist in government is never going to corrected by a businessperson. It takes a practical humanitarian. MAGA folks have been buying into the wealthy’s manipulation so long they can’t understand they’re being played like a broken fiddle.
This is 100% correct and a country is run with a constitution and laws really businesses have a CEO who can rule with an iron fist. We don’t have that here. And we’re all damn glad we don’t. We fought and bled for these things.
Private equity is owning more and more of everything, including the stores we shop and even housing. It's important to be aware of the ownership of the businesses we support. Support ethical and human-centered organizations, not plutocracies with the sole mission of maximizing profit.
Likewise businesses don’t take money from one profitable division and move it freely to a failing division to make it work. Businesses just get rid of unprofitable divisions in a heartbeat. Not true for the federal government.
Looks like all your social benefits are disappearing. I know you paid for them, but the majority voted for a greedy oligarch over a democrat. Maybe the US needed this; the rich to overplay their hand so they never get their hands on the reins again. Maybe they'll never let go of those reins.
The USA, like us in the UK, has 'first past the post', so it's possible for a party to receive fewer votes than its nearest rival yet still gain sole power. With gerrymandering, ID hurdles and other tricks we shouldn't pass observation from our own electoral monitoring system.
And where did the idea come from that it would be good to have a businessman run the country? They are used to having their own way and not having checks or balances. Also they’re fine with bankruptcy. Who does that sound like.
Why is everyone so scared of Musk and DT finding waste and fraud. What does everyone have to hide? Musk owned Pay Pal for a decade. If you think he wants your personal info, most people already gave it to him back then. FYI, if you do not like monsters, quit creating them. I will be one if you push.
Those who can't line their pockets can just die off as far as they're concerned! As far as I'm concerned, they're the motherfuckers who can eat fucking shit & die! Then we can redistribute their wealth for humanitarian purposes!
The MAGA way of thinking is the programs are only useful if I need them. They still believe in “trickle down economics”. If their house is not immediately on fire, all that money from gutting the fire dept will go directly into their own pockets. That is the level of idiocy we are dealing with.
Yeah the firefighter bit there, you would think that would be this vague "common sense" stuff but there are actually areas that have no pay-no-spray policies already so... Tennessee I'm looking at you.
If they would run the goverment like an effective business I would be fine with that. An effective business would try to protect its employees, keep infrastructure up to snuff and protect it's assets. Meanwhile the gov is run to enrich the oligarchs right now!
Healthcare has the same problem. It is no longer about providing excellent care. Now it is about how little you can provide for the most income, even in non-profits!
Less than one percent of the country works for the government.
That is a pretty good return considering everything they provide.
Republicans have been blaming government for their failed right wing policies and failed management since the Gipper 1980.
Change the narrative.
All very very true… though technically a non-profit is also a business🤷🏼♂️ I mean when you think about it a corporation has a “president” and “executive officers” (vp and cabinet) and board of directors (congress) and shareholders (citizens) and customers (all of the other countries that buy our stuff)
We take out loans we have debt… I’m not necessarily saying that we SHOULD be run like a corporation/business. But we certainly have all the infrastructures that would form a corporate non-profit. We hire (vote) a new CEO every four years who brings in a board their own executives. Some are good at
the job some are absolutely awful… We have a “charter” that only allows a CEO to serve for a max of 8yrs. We the ‘shareholders’ decide who should sit on the Board of Directors. We vote just like shareholders to make decisions on the direction of the company or “non-profit”. We have departments and
divisions (department and agencies) we hire directors and managers to head them. And we have workers (government employees)
You can’t really say that I am wrong in this analogy? Our entire civilian corporate and business structures are entirely designed on exactly how the U.S. Government operates.
If they wanna run it like a business then only those who pay taxes are the shareholders. Shareholders on a board that need to fire those running the business into the ground. They are embezzling us.
Why do you think they are shutting down NOOA who predicts and delivers news on weather events. To privatize it! Can’t afford to it, oh well you don’t get to know. All tv weather gets their info from NOAA so they won’t give it away either.
Elon Musk has a knack for hiring competent people to run his businesses, but for reorganizing government he has a fatal flaw: He doesn't understand that governments exist not to make money but to provide services and enforce regulations that protect us from predators like him.
GOP voters: The old saying is "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Trump voters wanted change in 2016, and they got COVID chaos. Fooled again in 2024, they're getting general chaos, which will soon hurt most of us. Complain to your spineless GOP legislators!
Exactly 💯...
the most ridiculous thing to say. Look at the past business model of the person(s) in charge
Track records
( 🍊bankrupt everything touched or involved in.
😈 breaks and destroys anything touches or involved in. )
Why would anybody want a country run like a business? Business leaders are ruthless, liars, crooked, callous, and the only thing that matters is the bottom line. Do you think you will get any safety net with that?
The present US government has no idea what it is supposed to be doing.
Ignorance in power is a dangerous thing.
As a business they may decide to sell it to Russia or China to pay for Elon Musks toys.
The same folks wanting and supporting the business approach of Elon also support Luigi mowing down CEOs for same principle. Like the dog chasing its own tail.
Every owner I worked for only saw expenses. They never saw how much they could be making. Cut a $5,000.00 a month employee who brought in $40,000.00 a month in revenue. And they all thought they were business geniuses. Automotive dealerships. You know like num nuts.
Satire is soothing, but as we smile he kicks us to pieces. He’s already attacked every good thing about this country, and he’s insatiable. Our leaders try to play tennis with him while he bulldozes the court. He has uncheckable power. Open violence is his next move — or tell me why I’m wrong?
Most of government doesn't make a profit. Do you like that superhighway you were driving on? How about having your garbage picked up or being able to catch a bus across town? Of course there is waste in government; any large business, like Tesla, has waste. Take the good with the bad!
The idea can be blamed on John D. Miller, NBC marketing exec who created The Apprentice & the lie that trump was a highly successful businessman, since he was barely known outside of NY. Then MAGATS believed him when he said government is broken & he's the only one able to fix it.
Yes but the marketing exec whose idea it was to use trump was Miller. He dug trump up & fashioned his image. He has since even apologized for doing it.
I added it because MB was public about ending up feeling like he created Frankenstein. Not disputing your post which was news to me. Thanks for the deets!
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The ideas come from Curtis Yarvin, who is followed by J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel. Yarvin thinks the country will run better as a monarchy(one leader) and is authoritarian.
He bankrupted a casino twice he is going to bankrupt America. Just think if that had been Biden or Obama that did that fox would be running that information over and over again they would want to make that an issue as should the Democratic Party where is the new chairman he’s missing an action
Even if it were Trump has a seriously bad track record when running businesses. Don't forget he got caught stealing from a Cancer Charity and forever banned in NY for it. He's a convicted felon and a adjudicated sex offender
The founding FATHERS. The white, landed, slave owning MEN who wrote the constitution to protect their interests: commerce, not their wives! Sure. Improvements over time. But the gig is up. It's weaknesses gave us Trump.
Right. I forgot. All Americans have the right to healthcare, education, clean water, and food in this the United States of America. It's in the bill of rights.
More importantly, in a government run like a business, who gets the profits? Usually the lion’s share goes to the top. Seems to be what is happening in the US currently.
Who can still remember banks offering ‘services’ rather than ‘products’? Or being a passenger rather than a customer?
That train left the station long ago, sadly.
Firefighters paid on a commission, start fires for the hell of it!
That's why Yrumpke went all in on crypto. Leon made him a deal, which is why he is cutting everything from the government. He wants the money to corner the market. Like he doesn 't have enough of his own!
And how do you think it has been going all these decades before Trump who have started running it as a business? US has 37 trillion in debt. It haven’t been going so well has it? 🤔
My father felt the same way, but he died in 1994.
I guess it was thinking, back then, that business guys were working as hard as the guy on the floor.
Old thinking now
Business men today, for the big guys, are desk jockeys
It's the libertarian ideology that everything must be privatized and for-profit, including government services. The notion that taxes pay for communal, public services for the greater good is seen as socialist (which it is, of course) or worse. The far-right despitse public ownership of anything.
Yeah. I understand Musk's Asperger's Syndrome but to impose his lack of understanding for humanity and governance, towards American taxpayers and at their own prejudice is not right or effective at all!
You're assuming that Trump, and Musk, want to run the country for it, and its population. In fact, Trump just wants power, regardless of its resultant effects on the population, and Musk is a user, who will use Trump to his own benefit, again, regardless of its effect on the population.
Back in the 90's this is what Ross Perot voters wanted. To be run like a business. And that little fucker would have been a dictator too. Because companies are dictatorships, not democracy.
I am a firefighter, people genuinely don’t know their taxes pay for the Fire Department. They’ll ask “how much is this going to cost?” I say “nothing” they’re floored.
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Of the people.
By the people.
For the people.
How in heck does that comport with the business interests of a corporation?
They are not the same because their purposes for existing are entirely incongruent.
/overtoads they go together
What they're doing is taking their little paint brushes and broad stroking everything with it not giving a damn that not everyone is the same and requires various different things.
This all stems from faulty economics. We need more people to #LearnMMT and understand how govt finance works
Don't rush to pay your taxes.
We have no idea where the money will end up or what we are even paying for anymore.
Maybe if we all stop paying them, since they technically work for us, we can take back our rights as We the People. 🤷♀️
That mean egotists are not people?
or the ultra wealthy that get what they want regardless of who it hurts!
To think Harris is a people that worked her tail off and wanted to reunite the sides that will not work together for the people.
"My house on fire!"
"How much money do you have?"
"Money? I have no money!".
"Sorry, but we can not help you, we are just like hospitals, only profit!".
Washington and Franklin used startup fire companies as experiments to study democracy in action, to test their theories. When they were proven to be trustworthy and reliable (unlike the private fire companies reputations) they expanded. Many depts were named after founding fathers.
Still in operation under the same name and building!
Fuck Trump piece of shit felon
Perc dot org was their formal announcement ~40 years ago.
Now the tech bros want to create their own utopia- with all who resist placed in dystopia.
California Forever is one venture- trump already talked about 'new cities on public land'!
If your government is a business, who do you think they're getting their profits from?
That is a pretty good return considering everything they provide.
Republicans have been blaming government for their failed right wing policies and failed management since the Gipper 1980.
Change the narrative.
You can’t really say that I am wrong in this analogy? Our entire civilian corporate and business structures are entirely designed on exactly how the U.S. Government operates.
But… I’m guessing that now I’m probably not ever going to make your list of #Resisters huh🫤
the most ridiculous thing to say. Look at the past business model of the person(s) in charge
Track records
( 🍊bankrupt everything touched or involved in.
😈 breaks and destroys anything touches or involved in. )
Ignorance in power is a dangerous thing.
As a business they may decide to sell it to Russia or China to pay for Elon Musks toys.
Now stop complaining and get back to work.
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Get that fat orange turd out of office!!
But they will gaslight their cult followers. Somehow it's those evil libs, they done did it all!
While everything goes. The FOT will have us like North Korea.
#riseup
That train left the station long ago, sadly.
That's why Yrumpke went all in on crypto. Leon made him a deal, which is why he is cutting everything from the government. He wants the money to corner the market. Like he doesn 't have enough of his own!
Same regurgitation points lock-step coming from MAGA voters after listing Fox, et. al.
They haven't a f'ing clue.
The same person saying "US should be run like a business", can't name the 3 branches of Fed Gov!
FFS. Understood?
I guess it was thinking, back then, that business guys were working as hard as the guy on the floor.
Old thinking now
Business men today, for the big guys, are desk jockeys
It’s destroying our lives and our planet.
It is a service, not a business. It was never meant to make a profit.