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riversedge

(79,492 posts)
Thu May 8, 2025, 08:40 PM May 2025

Walz: So many Americans thought, "We need to hire a businessman to run government like a business." Two

Trump and his Repugs sure are NOT doing this!

" We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future."


Acyn
@Acyn
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May 7
Walz: So many Americans thought, “We need to hire a businessman to run government like a business.” Two things about that are wrong. First, no—we don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future.

And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.



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Walz: So many Americans thought, "We need to hire a businessman to run government like a business." Two (Original Post) riversedge May 2025 OP
He should have been obsessed with pickleball Clouds Passing May 2025 #1
DURec leftstreet May 2025 #2
Profit making biz invests in its people, esp if long term oriented. Vulture capitalists exploit people & fire them. Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #3

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
3. Profit making biz invests in its people, esp if long term oriented. Vulture capitalists exploit people & fire them.
Thu May 8, 2025, 09:36 PM
May 2025

For a number of year, maybe 20 or more, government worker levels have been stable (not sure if that is per capita or actual numbers).

Big spending from tRump 1.0 tax cuts and necessitated by Covid response has ballooned the debt. tRump 2.0 is on track to make it much worse and firing govt workers won't help much.

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