Running US gov't like a business. Good idea IF...

[Triana]

... we can let taxpayers STOP paying their employees (the politicians) to work FOR SOMEONE ELSE! (Monsanto, Wall St., Koch Bros, Exxon-Mobil, Pfizer, et al) - THEY DON'T WORK FOR US (Except Bernie Sanders) - yet WE pay their goddamned salaries.

NO business pays employee salaries and wages so they can go work for someone else. It needs to STOP.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. And no matter how uninfluenced by corporate America Bernie is, he will be functioning

within a system that is entirely influenced by that system.

Step one is get folks willing to commit to extreme change, elected.

Step two, get a whole bunch of them elected.

Step three, make change.

Gonna take a while, though.

[Triana]

4. won't happen in our lifetimes. n/t

[bemildred]

2. A government run like a business is a kleptocracy. nt

[Triana]

3. Agreed. But since most kleptocrats insist it be run that way

...this is a good response.

[bemildred]

5. It is indeed. nt

[alarimer]

6. Government is not a business and shouldn't be run like one.

It exists to serve the people and it does things that cannot be easily done by business. Fire safety, roads, public safety, environmental protection, to name but a few.

I mean, I can name any number of businesses that have gone belly-up because of malfeasance or incompetence. Enron, Global Crossing, etc. Twitter has been around 10 years but has never made a profit. There are all kinds of start-ups that exist solely to be sold to some other corporation, but produce no real product.

I think being CEO should disqualify anyone from holding public office. It is worthless training for public service.

[-none]

7. Government needs to be a counter balance to big business.

There need to be a balance. As things stand now, business controls too much of the government.
Electing Right leaning, business friendly politicians will only make things worse from here on in.
How can anyone support trade agreements that override our Constitution, or the politicians that support those types of trade agreements? We are already a ways past that point. A look of where our Living Wage Jobs are going and why, should be enough proof.

[Triana]

8. +1 n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Yep.

But these people live in some weird fantasy world where unregulated business is the ideal and everything is run privately.

Even though every time it's been tried it's fallen flat on it's face.