Mitt Romney Nearly Matches Obama Fundraising

GOVERNMENT IS NOT A CORPORATION AND NOT RUN LIKE ONE.

THE MEDIA has refused to challenge Romney’s false assumption that as former businessman he is best suited to run America’s government than a President with no business background. Yet, there is little evidence to support Romney’s assumption, and the compromised media still happily go along. While some businessmen have done well as President, there is little to support the notion that businessmen generally make the best Presidents. Bush, and especially Cheney, had ample business experience. Look what mess they made in office: they ran a buoyant, surplus-rich economy into the ground triggering the near collapse of the US and world economy! Remember Hoover, the Great Depression and “Hooverville.” On the other hand, look at the historical achievements of Presidents with no business experience: Lincoln, FDR, and more recently who took the country to the path of robust prosperity.

Often, businessmen when they happen to become Presidents, tend to follow a model in which they increase their personal tax advantage, sell off chunks of major government assets to the private sector at bargain prices (usually to their supporters), lay off a lot of people (who then become wards of the state) and squander the nation’s advantage in foreign adventurism in hope fostering an image of strength in international politics. This is an old trick. During pre-colonial era in Africa, leaders of major cosmopolitan European powers sat in a room to give themselves territories they never visited or known well. That is how businessmen do things. Again, look at the mess they made in Africa and Asia.

Government is not a corporation, and should never be run as one. Business is all about profit; government is about the common good! Therefore, there are many things government do that business is not suited or willing to do. Partly for that reason, we do not elect our President based on the economy alone (a self-serving mantra for Romney and many Republicans). We also want a President that has character, empathy, one that cares about the rights and suffering of others. Washington Post Moraniss reveals in his biographical installments on Obama and Romney that even as a Mormon preacher in Paris, Romney was unable to connect with people and made few converts. We want a President that is smart about foreign policy. We want a President that we can trust, not one who is trigger-happy. We want a President that cares about all the people not just a few (Romney, without equivocation, embraces the Ryan Budget, a budget that cuddles the rich and persecutes the poor and middle class). Romney and Ryan pity the rich and powerful and “forgot the dying birds.” We want a President that tells the truth not lie when it is convenient. While we believe that corporations are not people, we as well believe that a President should not run government like a corporation, or the people suffer!

Dr. Sam of CA 6:17PM May 17, 2012