Can You Name the Last Two Presidents who Were Elected with A Business Background?

[louis c]

8. They never even discussed their tangential associations with business, except Hoover and Bush

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First off, the question was the last two.
FDR, Truman, Carter, and H.W. Bush never touted there business accomplishments. Hoover and W. did.

Running the government like a business is wrong headed.

A business exists to make a profit. Buy at cheaper prices (including labor) and sell at higher prices to maximize those profits.

An example I use is, let's say the U.S Government has to contract a call center for citizens to have questions answered about Social Security, Veterans' Benefits, IRS, etc. And let's say the lowest bid in the United States calls for employees to make $14 and hour. In India, the bid is lower by half, because the workers there are making $2 an hour. By using just a strict business formula, the US Government should be outsourcing our own jobs. That's running government like a business. And I don't like it.