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Ferrets are Cool

(23,001 posts) Sat Mar 28, 2020, 04:18 PM Mar 2020

You can't run the United States like a business because

bottom line profits and margins are more important than people and their lives.
What we are seeing from the top of America's political pyramid amid this pandemic is proof.
When a grifter is running this particular "business" things are gonna get ugly.

I'm positive this thought is far from original, but it is where my mind is at the moment.

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You can't run the United States like a business because (Original Post) Ferrets are Cool Mar 2020 OP

You can't run any government like a business and it's folly to believe you should. ZZenith Mar 2020 #1

Thief! LastDemocratInSC Mar 2020 #3

Ha! Sorry! ZZenith Mar 2020 #4

+1 XRubicon Mar 2020 #5

you really can't run a country like a business.. stillcool Mar 2020 #2

ZZenith

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1. You can't run any government like a business and it's folly to believe you should.

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2020, 04:31 PM

Mar 2020

They are two completely different things with completely different aims and if you insist on doing so, at the very least, do not choose as its chief executive officer a moron who’s driven six of them into the ground.