Another election season about "Running the country like a business."

[Atman]

Except, the country is not a business! Businesses, the big ones, are largely responsible for the mess the country is in. Why would we want to run the country that way? Businesses outsourced our jobs. Businesses shut down our factories. Businesses demand tax breaks and subsidies. Businesses are in business to make a profit. Countries are in the business of providing for the defense of their borders and the general welfare of their citizens. NOT to make a profit. This drive to privatize everything is a drive to hell for America. EVERYTHING doesn't need to be a profit-making venture. Because when you're only focused on returning dividends to shareholders, you cease to focus on helping people. Your only goal is those profits. Therefore, I propose a new 2012 bumper sticker for the GOP...

GOP: RUINING THE COUNTRY LIKE A BUSINESS

[Wounded Bear]

1. Rant on, Atman!

I'm sick and tired of that old refrain.

It was supposed to be why The Donald was such a "good" candidate. I don't understand the RW mind. I really don't. It appears that they can't believe in anything that isn't a massive paradox.

:shrug:

[Little Star]

2. Boy, do I agree with your reasoning.....

"EVERYTHING doesn't need to be a profit-making venture. Because when you're only focused on returning dividends to shareholders, you cease to focus on helping people."

Well said! Now if only our elected officials would listen!

[prairierose]

3. Absolutely, some things are not and never should be..

"run like a business". Government, education, healthcare are three that come to mind without thinking about it.

[The empressof all]

4. How about running the country like a family...

I`m sick to fricken death with the business glorification mantra.

:thumbsup:

[Atman]

6. Exactly. You can be dysfunctional yet still look out for each other!

We don't all have to talk to each other, or even like each other all that much...but when one of us is in trouble, the family comes to our aid. And we don't even have to spend Christmas together if we don't want to.

[white_wolf]

8. The corporatist will be happy to run the country like family.

The only question is will they run it like a Mafia family or the Manson Family?

[The empressof all]

9. ROFL (nt)

:rofl:

[hifiguy]

21. Both. nt

[aquart]

5. That line is PERFECT. I want a button, not a bumper sticker.

[Atman]

7. Might have to crank up my Cafe Press store again for 2012

It's still full of Bush stuff. I haven't added anything new in a couple of years. Maybe now is the time.

[OHdem10]

10. Yep, Enron, Lucite, Delphi and others whose crooked mgmt left

the workers hi and dry and no pensions and no job.

Those Business Men on Wall Street are really exemplary
the gambling with the publics' money drove this economy
to ruins and causing millions of Americans such losses
it is hard to imagine. A GREAT RECESSION with an unemployment
rate that is intolerable.

The Government is not a business.

[justiceischeap]

11. I can't remember if it was last Friday or the week before but someone on Bill Maher

had this same rant. That the government isn't there to make money, it's not a business at all and if the government is running correctly, it should actually be losing money, not making money. Or something like that.

[damntexdem]

12. And most businesses haven't had a really great track record as of late.

Except, of course, for large financial institutions, which have made wonderful profits after causing an economic meltdown; and energy companies, which have made wonderful profits after causing environmental meltdowns and threatening the economy with price increases.

Remember the good old days -- when what was good for General Motors was at least better for the USA than is what's good for BofA today? ;-)

[dana_b]

13. DU could make that into a button/bumpersticker

and put it in the shop. :thumbsup:

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. Not to mention, businesses have a defined life line.

Most die in infancy, not surviving more than 5 years. Some survive into old age (... est. 1872). The country is older than any business in it, and should live much longer.

Most business do not survive more than three changes of management - roughly, three generation.

Wanting to run the country as a business predicts an end date in sixty years.

[GeorgeGist]

15. Everyone knows that the first thing smart businesses ...

do, when their debt exceeds their ability to pay, is to lower their income.

[WinkyDink]

16. Living in the shadow of Bethlehem Steel, I always ask: WHICH BUSINESS?

[ProfessorGAC]

17. One Add To This

This was a mantra of Silverspoon. Well, he ran three business into the ground. So, why would we want someone to run the company like a business when they've PROVEN they can't run a business.
GAC

[Atman]

18. +100

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[baldguy]

19. They don't want to run the country like just any business.

They want to run it like Enron.

[Heretofor]

20. Business or corporatism?

Would that the country was really run like a good business. It's more run like a giant, TBTF corporation.

Dump the corporatism and rewarding bad economic decisions.