2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDo Businessmen Make Good Presidents?
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(2,068 posts)They are tasked at making money for a small group of people - investors or employees. A President needs to have winners all around - that is death for a CEO.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)All business is evil and at direct odds to the common good. The only noble professions are those of working for the church or state or some limited non-profits. How can you expect a business prick to care about the rest of the nation?
ksoze
(2,068 posts)A CEO may not make a good president, but casting all business as evil is a bit much
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)It's not about having money. It's about how you earned it and what you did with it.
yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)I would say he is one more strike against the premise.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)That would be news to him.
DemocratSinceBirth
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DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Then he was a farmer.
Not the same thing as being a "business man". Like I said, President Carter would find this OP a big laugh.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)He also was a nuclear engineer.He was a Sunday School teacher. He was a multi layered person.
AJH032
(1,124 posts)is like saying any consumer good at finding deals in the market has a solid understanding of the economy.
The two sides are simply filling their roles in our multi-market macroeconomy. Being good at your role does not mean you understand predominant macroeconomic forces and how to influence a positive change as president.
JI7
(89,279 posts)Carter had a bunch of other experience than the peanut farmer thing. and he was right on many things which if he had been re-elected and able to do and we could have avoided Reagan we would be a lot better off today.
Bush was always backed by people associated with his dad. everything he did was because of his name and family connections. from his business to being President. but i odn't think he was ever directly in charge .
treestar
(82,383 posts)It is directing the Executive Branch of the federal government, which includes foreign policy, which cannot be conducted like a business.
The idea they understand the economy is silly - they understand their company and that's about it.