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etherealtruth

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3. The nutjobs in Michigan wanted the same thing and elected business person Rick Snyder

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:28 AM

Jan 2017

We ended up with an entire city poisoned and "emergency managers squandering school district and city money.

In business profit is the goal ... if you govern with "profit" as the only goal and not the welfare of citizens this is what you get.

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RWnuts wanted our country to be ran like a business [View all] SHRED Jan 2017 OP

a business in a death spiral. spanone Jan 2017 #1

Like many of his ventures. SHRED Jan 2017 #2

The nutjobs in Michigan wanted the same thing and elected business person Rick Snyder etherealtruth Jan 2017 #3

Ding ding ding! THIS. MANative Jan 2017 #9

The "anti-corporate" Teabaggers wanted a "businessman" to run the country. world wide wally Jan 2017 #12

I have screamed long and hard about this clear down to the town level. old guy Jan 2017 #4

Profit margins or citizen welfare and security SHRED Jan 2017 #5

well, it worked great in Brownbackistan! That was the test case Takket Jan 2017 #6

Yeah and they got the world's worst business man to run it C_U_L8R Jan 2017 #7

Exactly SHRED Jan 2017 #13

Trump definitely loves to fire people/push people to resign Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2017 #8

Institutional memory is crucial SHRED Jan 2017 #14

I've never understood the calls to run government like a business. lapucelle Jan 2017 #10

+10 SHRED Jan 2017 #11

Exactly right. old guy Jan 2017 #15