Today, Americans think running the country like a business is a good thing. When you do that, human beings are totally discounted, and the only thing that matters is money and profit. #VOTEBLUE2025 #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
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Or maybe run it like a sensible household. When your electric bill is too high, you don’t unplug your fridge! You don’t take a sledgehammer to your AC unit! You research and plan out how to reasonably cut back which takes time and thoughtfulness. This is ignorant destruction.
The US government is a service based organization. It takes tax dollars and uses them to provide services. Sometimes there are unscrupulous individuals that benefit from fraud, but that is fewer than one would think. Musk(foreign national) benefits from those tax dollars and still pays no taxes.....
FFS the US gov is NOT a business. A government (of people, humans!) enables through policy, economic growth and global competitiveness. To that end, a duty to maintain public health, wealth, safety, and influence.
Government is supposed to be a counterweight to business. Providing essential services when it’s not profitable, particularly to rural areas. Trump voters will be hurt the worst in all of this
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Businesses need a steady leader at the helm. Trump has created chaos, and a glance at the stock market shows us how much Trump’s policies are creating an environment for economic success.
The constitution’s preamble lays out the purposes for the formation of our government. Providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare,… to provide services that benefit us. Nothing about the government being a business nor making a profit.
Making incarceration a for-profit industry has just exacerbated the school-to-prison pipeline that began with the punishment exception in the 13th amendment.
When did this become the norm ?
We pay taxes for public services and good stewardship of the collective our Nation!
Fascism (where the welfare of corporations outweigh that of The People) only benefits the wealthy, enslaves the others and never ends well for The People!
Anyone who thinks a government should be run like a for-profit business never spent any time in finance in one. I've been 20 years in for-profit and 22 in non-profit and there are big philosophical differences. US is a not for profit service org and the preamble to the Constitution is the mission.
I’ve posted a few times stating that govt is NOT supposed to be an efficient business. It’s supposed to help people, provide food & shelter, educate and protect us
To stop the robber barons from making $$ while polluting our water and air.
We need Paladin & Robin Hood & the Grey Fox desperately
I worked as a corporate accountant for 20 years before becoming a nurse. A ton of businesses are not run right. Some departments are run with tight control of spending and some are very wasteful, depending on the people in charge. Venture capital firms often tank a company after buying it.
yup...first thing they do is install "their" executives into the company, and they begin to draw unholy amounts of the operating capital they "just" handed your company, as salaries & other executive nonsense, all, while showing no benefit, and decreasing your budget to....operate.
Yes big and small. I bought solid wood furniture in NJ and when I went back for more, the store said the company was no more, a group of doctor investors bought it and shortly ran it into bankruptcy.
The only people who make money are the middle men like health insurers. Besides, in a business, when you fire people, you don't care where they go. In government, you get all the broken pieces as well. Don't let business people run a country. They are limited-scope idiots.
…and they even fail to actually run it like a business. Destroying relationships with your trade partners and laying off half of your accounts receivables department.
Our country is a true nonprofit. We collect tax revenues to support those things we need and have voted for. But we are not in the business to make money. That is antithesis to the constitution.
I like not for profit or employee owned as much as possible. I'm retired from a not-for-profit blood center. Our CEO made six figures, and we all made good money. We didn't have corporate overlords slave driving us for shareholders though.
If it does not serve the people, it should not exist.
If trump destroys VA, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, IRS, and other agencies, then there is no reason for the position of president to exist. Same for Congress, no services = no job.
What should happen is for the people to organize and have everyone from Federal government walk out of their jobs on the same day. This would cripple Trump & Doge.
Who has the balls to organize. No politicians will. Your on your own.
Sane caring Americans understand that govt is about the public good. That’s why we willingly pay taxes. Trump’s oligarchs think everything is motivated by profits. That’s why they avoid paying taxes and exploit people. Biden represented sane caring Americans. It’s a battle between good and evil.
Running the U.S. “like a business” is a total scam. A business runs to make money for the stockholders. Nothing else. A country provides services for the citizens. They are nothing alike and to try a force a country to be ran like business will always lead to failure
Agreed. There are no perfect systems. As a visitor across the pond I was able to use free public medical care while visiting my son. 😁 Sometimes he and those he knows wait 1-3 months for services unless it is an emergency. 😳 I guess sending an American home from their vacation is an emergency. 🤣
Uh, you might want to play around with that a little more before sharing it. I tried it, and the first link was to a closed shop and the second provided a misleading link supposedly to a bookshop but that was really an affiliate link to Amazon.
Definitely. Countries are not analogous to corporations. Citizens are not the same as employees. You can't (or shouldn't) fire a citizen because you don't feel they can cut it, or they don't share your vision.
I’m worried they have a way to not lose elections. Otherwise they wouldn’t be acting like they’re in power for ever and Congress wouldn’t be supporting all this shit.
The previous Congress did nothing but harass the Biden’s and still won re-election. How was that?
The “businessman” running the regime in our government can’t run a business either. He’s already had 6 bankruptcies and appears to be trying to make our country number 7.
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Business for the people
These two things are diametrically opposed.
If you run your business like a government, your business will die.
If you run your government like a business, your people will die.
Nobody should EVER profit off of prisons. It's wholly immoral.
The same idiots are saying we must all speak "English" when they can barely speak or write proper English themselves.
FFS America.
Just like actual business.
Every. Single. Time.
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Making incarceration a for-profit industry has just exacerbated the school-to-prison pipeline that began with the punishment exception in the 13th amendment.
We pay taxes for public services and good stewardship of the collective our Nation!
Fascism (where the welfare of corporations outweigh that of The People) only benefits the wealthy, enslaves the others and never ends well for The People!
I’ll politely refrain from speculating as to why that might be.
To stop the robber barons from making $$ while polluting our water and air.
We need Paladin & Robin Hood & the Grey Fox desperately
parasites
The purpose of a business is to make money for its owners, investors, stockholders.
The purpose of a government is to provide services for the country's population.
They are not, nor have they ever been, interchangeable.
And while we are on the subject, how much does it cost us again every time trump goes golfing?
If trump destroys VA, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, IRS, and other agencies, then there is no reason for the position of president to exist. Same for Congress, no services = no job.
Who has the balls to organize. No politicians will. Your on your own.
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The previous Congress did nothing but harass the Biden’s and still won re-election. How was that?