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What a country looks like when you run it like a corporation.
imanamerican63
(13,795 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)behave better than the Trump Criminal Empire.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Decently run corporations don't run into bankruptcy and/or fall to pieces.
unblock
(52,229 posts)Public companies get audited and scrutinized, they tend to play by the rules.
But non-public companies, particularly family-run? There's often a very blurry line between business and personal money....
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)There are likely many privately held, family operated, companies that still run as if they were a mom & pop, and the inherent inefficiencies of neoptistic hiring lead them to cut corners and engage in questionable practices to achieve the profit potential they believe they deserve.
Can't get away with that given the scrutiny applied in a publicly traded company.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)uponit7771
(90,339 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)No more "business people" or billionaires heading our government. The U.S. should not be for sale, as much as the assholes on the right want to unload it, just to get even fatter.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)of the country.
They are without a doubt all corrupt and self-serving....which no doubt served them well in corporate life but not so well in public life.