Why does running a business automatically mean that you can run a government, too?

[cynatnite]

We already saw it first hand with bush. He was a business failure and he did a horrible job running Texas and the US.

So, now we've another bush type that's trying to say his business "success" (and I use the term success very loosely) translates that he can be successful at running the government.

A business and a government are two separate things. A business has a CEO...no judicial branch and no legislative branch. A CEO says this is what goes. There is no electoral process in him getting his job. A president is an elected official of a government with three equal branches of government. The only thing he is CEO of there is the military.

A business and a government are apples and oranges. They're not even in the same universe. So how in the blue blazes can anyone say that since they ran a business it means they can run a government?

It makes zero sense to me.

P.S. I know Romney did a horrible job as governor and they're hoping nobody remembers that.

[Earth_First]

1. Are you a business owner...?

[cynatnite]

2. So, they're the same? n/t

[Earth_First]

4. Not at all...

I was hoping for a different response followed by an equally snarky follow up...

[cynatnite]

6. Okay, so my answer would be no...

I do not nor have I ever ran a business. I watched a lot of Dynasty when I was a kid, though.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Your point being……?

Edited to add:

Always happy to help in the hunting of the snark.

[baldguy]

3. The answer is: It doesn't of course.

Running a business doesn't even mean you can run a business. Financial success is most often associated with only two things: luck and opportunity. Ability has almost nothing to do with it.

[unblock]

7. to make millions, luck and opportunity may suffice. but to make BILLions, you need to steal as well

there's really no rational justification for that kind of money-making. there's simply NO realistic way to justify it.
the only way to get it is to steal, or at least to deny others, quite likely MANY others, their fair share or a fair deal.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. It doesn't.

nt

[spin]

9. I really can't think of any job that would prepare a person to be POTUS ...

and I really can't think of any reason why a rational person would want the job.