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The U.S. Cannot Be Run Like a Business

Donald Trump ran his campaign with the promise to manage the American government like a business. Should government even be run like a business, let alone by businesspeople? No more than business should be run like a government, by civil servants. Each in its own place, thank you. Governments experience all kinds of pressures that cannot be imagined in many enterprises, especially the entrepreneurial kind that was run by Donald Trump. Consider that business has a convenient bottom line called “profit,” which can readily be measured. But many activities are in the public sector precisely because their intricate results are difficult to measure. Running government like a business has been tried again and again, only to fail again and again.

Post Post Share Save Buy Copies Print Donald Trump ran his campaign with the promise to manage the U.S. government like a business. In fact, he just announced that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will head up a “SWAT team” dedicated to making this happen.

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