Should the country be ran like a fortune 500 business?

[Silver Surfer]

Thoughts?

 

[88m3]

The government is already cold and unflinching... I don't think we need to get clinical.

 

[Mixerr Reviews]

I'm not sure that's a good idea.

 

[rantanamo]

I would say no unless you're talking a company like Container Store

 

[rantanamo]

Funny that many conservatives say this as if corporations don't fukk up financially everyday

 

[Brown_Pride]

NOPE.
Fortune 500 companies only care about their bottom line, e.g. the dollar.
Countries can't be so short sighted as they are dealing with the governance of people. This is why all that "i ran a successful business" crap politicians say never made sense to me. Running a business and governing people are not remotely close to the same thing.

 

[tmonster]

no

 

[Mowgli]

Thoughts?

Are you willing to volunteer your life if you aren't meeting your numbers?

Do you want to be fired from existence

 

[Broke Wave]

Imo, yes

 

[Starman]

Thoughts?

What do you think that means? I can only guess it means more efficiently, at least in part. I'd answer "yes" if that's all you meant, but is there something else?

 

[GPBear]

it already is, trickle down economics has been the source of tremendous societal ruin over the last 35 years.

go back to the university of chicago, Milton Friedman

 

[OsO]

It already is where the f you been?

We got the guns, we got the drugs, we do murder for hire, we monopolize natural resources, we'll overthrow your whole damn government if necessary.

Legitimate gangsters.

 

[Vandelay]

Nah, while some departments need to be more fiscally responsible, you can't govern people in the same way you run a corporation.

Corporations are supposed to come and go with the ebbs and flows of the economy. People are not.

 

[Lazy Migrant]

I think so. Look at Singapore, they've run their country like a corporation and had amazing results.
http://fortune.com/2015/03/23/singapore-leekuanyew-corporation-1974/


In 1967 the country of my birth Jamaica, had a higher GDP per capita than them and compare the two countries today. http://www.google.com/publicdata/ex...n&idim=country:SGP:JAM&ifdim=region&ind=false