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underpants

(182,945 posts) Mon Nov 26, 2012, 09:03 PM Nov 2012

So if you want to "run government like a business" you don't increase revenue?

you control costs but if you expand your revenue you have to increase costs at least in inventory and probably in hiring.....but not the wiley bid'ness types in the Republican party.
Maybe the bid'ness they have been aiming for all this time was a Dollar Store.

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So if you want to "run government like a business" you don't increase revenue? (Original Post) underpants Nov 2012 OP

Running Government like a business ... Vox Moi Nov 2012 #1

Most of the idiots parroting that line have never run a business to begin with. Ikonoklast Nov 2012 #2

That's not the aspect of business they are focusing on, Lionessa Nov 2012 #3

... or pay dividends? GeorgeGist Nov 2012 #4

Does sound screwed up, doesn't it? bluestate10 Nov 2012 #5

Vox Moi

(546 posts)

1. Running Government like a business ...

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 09:13 PM

Nov 2012

is like running business as a government.
While we're at it, why not run automobile like a bicycle?
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Government and business are completely different entities and it's about time that we stopped this nonsense.
'Running government like a business' is a bogus panacea: illogical at its foundation and impossible to implement.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)

2. Most of the idiots parroting that line have never run a business to begin with.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 09:14 PM

Nov 2012

The ones that are professional life-long politicians (See: Newt Gingrich, for example) have never met a payroll, hired an employee, or had to compete with other businesses in order to make a paycheck or see a nickel in profit in their entire lives.

That's why I laugh at them. They cannot even defend or explain the very words that fall out of their ignorant mouths.

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

3. That's not the aspect of business they are focusing on,

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 09:14 PM

Nov 2012

they only focus on the aspect of taking as much as possible for the executives by screwing all the others in the company while demanding more and more from the same 99%.

What you are mentioning as business goals really no longer exist. The only goal most care about is how much they get and how much they can squeeze from their "plebs".

GeorgeGist

(25,324 posts)

4. ... or pay dividends?

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 09:36 PM

Nov 2012

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)

5. Does sound screwed up, doesn't it?

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 09:45 PM

Nov 2012

A good business makes sure that every dollar that is spent is spent wisely, but increases spending when there is benefit from increasing spending. A good business always optimize (increase) revenues.

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