"The Corporate Raider Is Not A Good Model For Public Service" by Tina Dupuy at Cagle Post

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The Corporate Raider Is Not A Good Model For Public Service
by Tina Dupuy at Cagle Post

http://www.cagle.com/2012/05/corporate-raider-is-not-a-good-model-for-public-service/

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As billionaire Julian Robertson who after giving $1.25 million Restore Our Future—a pro-Romney superPAC—told NPR last week, “I think Barack Obama is a smart man that the electorate put into power without any qualifications to run the biggest business in the world, which is the United States of America.”

The thing is the U.S. isn’t a business. Government isn’t a business just as an apple isn’t an orange. Running government like a business would be like running Yosemite National Park like a 7-Eleven—every inch is monetized to maximize profit–half off all 5-Hour Energy Shots on Half Dome! “A mountain of savings!” It’s a stunningly bad idea. It sounds clever in sound bites. They hope it sounds like Republicans are business friendly and quick with the flippant solutions: Government bad, business good—treat one like the other and both will be good! To me it sounds like the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) with a profit motive: another stunningly bad idea.

Vulture capitalism (to borrow a phrase from the leftist pinko Texas Governor Rick Perry) is hardly a good model for public service. Capitalizing on demolishing jobs doesn’t give you any insight into the common good, unless you take “common good” to mean just your wealthy friends.

This whole selling point of Romney having business experience therefore he’s the best to run the country implies that the economy collapsed because there wasn’t enough of a cozy relationship between government and business.

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[SoutherDem]

1. Apples and oranges?

More like apples and rutabagas.

It drives me crazy to say the U.S. is a business or need to be ran as one.

If it ever is, we will fail, have another revolution or split.

Bush worried me. Romney scares the shit out of me.

If Romney becomes president we may actually miss Bush and wish we had him back. At least he is a devil we know. Romney just like the snake he is sheds his skin every so often. You never know what you will get next.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Romney thinks he's running for CEO of the United States

[trusty elf]

3. Good framing

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