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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou can't run the United States like a business because
bottom line profits and margins are more important than people and their lives.
What we are seeing from the top of America's political pyramid amid this pandemic is proof.
When a grifter is running this particular "business" things are gonna get ugly.
I'm positive this thought is far from original, but it is where my mind is at the moment.
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You can't run the United States like a business because (Original Post)
Ferrets are Cool
Mar 2020
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ZZenith
(4,119 posts)1. You can't run any government like a business and it's folly to believe you should.
They are two completely different things with completely different aims and if you insist on doing so, at the very least, do not choose as its chief executive officer a moron whos driven six of them into the ground.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)3. Thief!
You stole everything I was going say, and you did it better than I would have.
OK, you're not a thief.
ZZenith
(4,119 posts)4. Ha! Sorry!
Next time Ill check in with you first.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)2. you really can't run a country like a business..
when you can't even run a business.