I think that we can finally put the idea that a business man makes a good president to bed

[Joe Nation]

Apparently, running a company, managing a budget, employing workers, and catering to shareholders, doesn't actually teach you how to be a good president or teach you that sedition and insurrection are bad things.

Let's just say that Corporate America isn't exactly a wellspring of individuals interested in service for the public good.

[BlueIdaho]

1. Donald Trump has never done any of those things

But I agree with your point.

[Joe Nation]

2. Agreed but he told people he did and they believed him

in spite of reality.

[BlueIdaho]

3. I will NEVER trust a "business man" to run our nation.

None of them have the skill set to run the most powerful free country on earth. None of them.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. a good amount of higher ups

in corporate boards are sociopaths. Capitalism tends to reward high functioning sociopaths and put them in high level positions.

[BlueIdaho]

10. I've met them

I totally agree.

[Baked Potato]

4. The love of profit is stronger than the love of country in them.

I assume many of them are fine people, LOL.

[mzmolly]

5. Agree. But he was a bad business man.

eom

[Joe Nation]

12. Don't make their argument for them

I can hear them saying exactly the same thing

[mzmolly]

15. They're in denial about

that too.

[NCDem47]

6. Congress is SWARMING with these types too.

ALL Wall Street and not Main Street.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. when corporations and nations merge

what you get is fascism. mussolini said that as far as i know.

a country run like a business is a sick country full of desperate people.

[treestar]

9. I thought that since the days of Ross Perot

A CEO is not the same as a President. There is no separations of powers. You have to compromise. There are things you can't walk away from. Completely different skill set. People who think it's the same do not understand the Constitution.

[catbyte]

11. Michigan was an example of this. Rick "The Dictator" Snyder was the worst governor in my

lifetime. Being the CEO of a company requires a completely different skill set than a politician. Money is the bottom line with these jokers and we in Michigan all suffered for almost a decade because of it.

During his time as Governor, we had democracy stripped from local municipal governments and school districts through the vile "Emergency Manager" law. When the people of Michigan voted to eliminate it, the GOP-led legislature reinstated it and made it unrepealable.

Snyder signed union-busting "Right to Work" legislation after he assured us he "had no interest in doing so" during the gubernatorial campaign.

He signed into law a tax on the incomes of retirees and the disabled in order to fund a $1.87B tax cut for corporations.

And, vilest of all, poisoned a city's water supply just to save money.

There are countless other examples I could name but you catch my drift. Money is the priority of business executives, not acting in the public good.

[AmericanCanuck]

13. I disagree. Trump is no businessman.

I'm sure Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos would be very competent at the job.

[FakeNoose]

14. Chump was/is a terrible businessman

He ran all of his companies into the ground, made bad decisions right and left.

These 4 years of Chump running the country into the ground, do not prove anything about businessmen. It just proves the Chump was a poor choice from DAY ONE.

I do agree that I'll never vote for any person who claims they'd make a good Potus, simply because they were successful in running a business. If only the media had done their job in exposing Chump's lies about his (failed) businesses, he would have never been elected in the first place.

[dawg]

16. No. Trump was more of a game show host than a businessman.

He inherited a large amount of wealth, but he pretty much pissed it away through his failing real estate ventures. He managed to go bankrupt running a casino, which is, suffice it to say, quite the mathematical curiosity.

He was able to redeem himself, financially, via a combination of showmanship and questionable business practices (which we will learn much more about soon).

Jimmy Carter, by way of his peanut farm, was much more of a traditional businessman than Trump.

[usajumpedtheshark]

17. I wish I had a dollar for every time my thirty years of working in higher education

I heard or read that universities and colleges should be operated like businesses. Boards, mostly made up of business leaders, want to appoint business leaders to run these institutions. Personally, I only saw one example of where it worked out and that was due to the leader being humble enough to take the time to learn about the university and to share governance.