Why do conservatives feel that the Government should run like a business?

J Craft said:
Why do liberals always want to start with a false argument?

There are sound rationales in business that ought to be employed in government, this does not equate to "running government like a business".

if a program isn't working the government answer is typically throw more money and Human resources at it irrespective of any real analysis. A business would look at real analysis and then choose a course of action, which might include scrapping the program if benefit is not outweighed by cost. Where it can get tricky IMO, is with entitlement spending. A business does not have a welfare minded perspective built into a business matrix.
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Cause they figure some rightie will fall for it and try to defend what is a myth in the first place....
 
gosh I could have sworn Nova just called me an idiot......now its gone.....lol.....it also tells me I can edit Nova's last post.....
 
cawacko said:
In business if your company fails or runs out of money it generally shuts down. In gov't you often hear "well it failed because we didn't spend enough money on it so let's spend more good money after bad". Does one learn that in a gov't class somewhere?
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Bull. Our government has NEVER said that.

You can't name one single case of anything like that.

You were probably listening to the MSM.
 
archives said:
That a Businessman would would be an asset in Government? The few Presidents with business backgrounds turned out to be disasters, and the only one who didn't, Truman, was a disaster at business

Business and Government are two separate entities, Government centers upon those concerns that Business won't, and the leadership qualites necessary in both are different, assuming understanding one automatically predicts success in the other is an error

Michael Jordan was a supreme athlete, but being a dominating athlete didn't mean he would succeed at baseball as he did basketball, two separate entities
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if liberals are to be believed trump is a disaster t business to so he would be like truman :)
 
PostmodernProphet said:
there are profitable businesses who's reason for existing is to provide services........the concepts are not mutually exclusive......though government would certainly make you think so......
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Service companies are no different at all. They just have a different product.

Goldman Sachs is a service sector corporation.

Do you think they care whether you live or die?
 
cawacko said:
In business if your company fails or runs out of money it generally shuts down. In gov't you often hear "well it failed because we didn't spend enough money on it so let's spend more good money after bad". Does one learn that in a gov't class somewhere?
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Nice evasion. Governing isn't business.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
Why shouldn't government be run like a business?
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Because they have different functions and missions. The mission of a business is to maximize profits. The function of our government are elucidated in the pre-amble of the Constittution; They are, to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty upon it's citizens and future generations.

Now I'm sure free market fundamentalist like Wacko are not pleased to hear this but none of the basic functions of government prioritize maximizing profits for businesses. Not even the general welfare clause.
 
cawacko said:
Not an evasion at all. The OP is a false premise in how it was presented.
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No it isn't. It's factually correct. You're using the "what's good for business is what's good for everyone." philosophy again. Business is a very important part of our society but it's not the be all and everything of our society. There are many important sake holders in our society of which business is only one.
 
archives said:
and not to benefit off of providing those services
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That ceased with Lincoln
Where you go off the rails is that gov't has a need to contract with a vast array of businesses. If it fails to use normal business processes it squanders the resources it gets.
If it helps, think of gov't as array nonprofit business.
 
WillReadmore said:
Service companies are no different at all. They just have a different product.

Goldman Sachs is a service sector corporation.

Do you think they care whether you live or die?
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???.....I don't think they care whether I live or die......I don't think the government cares whether I live or die......I'm pretty sure that having been here a whole seven posts that you don't care if I live or die........so, what the fuck difference does it make?......
 
Mott the Hoople said:
No it isn't. It's factually correct. You're using the "what's good for business is what's good for everyone." philosophy again. Business is a very important part of our society but it's not the be all and everything of our society. There are many important sake holders in our society of which business is only one.
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here's a fact......what we've had for the last sixteen years isn't good for anyone.......so fuck what we've been doing and do it differently........we elected a guy to run it like a business.....if you don't like it after sixteen years you can always try something else......
 
Celticguy said:
That ceased with Lincoln
Where you go off the rails is that gov't has a need to contract with a vast array of businesses. If it fails to use normal business processes it squanders the resources it gets.
If it helps, think of gov't as array nonprofit business.
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speaking of rails, good example of what happens if you run a business like a government.......
 
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