We don't need a CEO for President.

This is the one lesson this nation should take away from the trainwreck of the * government that we must extricate ourselves from. How many times have you heard someone say that the government should be run "like a business?" Hell, no, it shouldn't. The CEO as a model for governance doesn't work. When you inject profit motive into the system, you institutionalize corruption. Efficiency and stewardship in government is realize through the honesty and integrity of its employees and through transparency.

We do not need a CEO. We need a real President--someone who understands how to govern and not dictate from the penthouse.

n/t

When I first heard Bush say that he was going to run the government like a company, I thought, "Oh God, this is going to be worse than I thought."

:grr:

The government, at its best, should be operated "like a business."

When I say that, I mean it must be efficient, clear of bloat, clear of glut, clear of pork. A firm that operated the same way the federal government has for the past several decades would end up in bankruptcy before long.

When I say that, I do not mean that it should be a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations. The government's modern role now, ideally, is not only to ensure the well-being of the population it reigns over but also to check the power of the corporation. The government should operate based on facts and ideas formulated with respect to those facts, like the idea of universal health care for instance. It should not operate inspite of the facts, like the idea of invading/occupying Iraq being a "cake walk."

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960

A new plan and the world thought we were nuts. Founders did not trust power and thats why the people, with add ons, finally went with this messy Constitution with all the checks in it. What no one wanted was a 'CEO'. I do not think this is taught in schools any more.The House was to be the House of the people and the power of war and money sat with them and every 2 years we could get rid of them.

WN

Edit: CLOWN

The first time I ever saw * speak, I recognized that CEO persona and it scared me to death,,,, Being a 'public servant' is very very different from running a corporation.

The president should be representing the people of this nation with diplomacy around the world. We are always attacking and being attacked. We need someone who will stop putting us in the line of fire. The American people want peace. It is the leadership who profit from being the antagonist. They will use our military as if they are playing a game with toy soldiers instead of real people. They take our money and spend it frivolously lining their pockets. We need the ultimate diplomat to soothe relations with other countries and we need oversight on every thing they do. We have neither right now.

Duty and Honor, really don't seem compatible with Capitalism, unfortunately.

This fucking idiot moron who has hacked our democracy for a fascist regime may be the answer for a third world nation, NOT AMERICA.

It's like a version of privatization. Especially in this maladministration. Never has it been so obvious that there is a conflict of interest. As if Cheney wasn't fully involve in Halliburton. That war was created for Halliburton, et. al.

I forgot to say that we are electing policies through our wallets. Our purchases are paving the way for legislation. They speak implicitly for us.

I've been making this point for 10 years now, with mixed results. :patriot:

k & r!

Government is almost all about "excess capacity." The CEO mentality either attempts to eradicate it (and be totally unprepared for catastrophes like Katrina) or "put it to work" (and take a 'ready' Army and initiate unprovoked wars for PROFIT).

I've posted about this before (in my Journal) ... and I think it's one of the more important things to comprehend about the flaws in the "run it like a business" fallacy.