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"Government is not a corporation, and should never be run as one. "
Dr. Sam, you are a moron. I doubt that you a doctor in anything other than some Socialist liberal arts program, because you obviously know nothing about corporations other than the left-wing diatribe that is spewed in liberal art degree programs.
If you know anything about corporations - or history - you would indeed recognize that the United States government is indeed structured as a corporation. The United States Constitution is essentially the by-laws of a corporation called "The United States of America".
The Legislative Branch is characterized as a Board of Directors, who are elected by the shareholders, which in the sense of the United States, are the voters/citizens.
The Executive Branch asks as the officers of the corporation, they are the ones that actually EXECUTE the wishes of the Board of Directors. In other words, the President is just the guy that signs the checks on the accounts given to them by the Board of Directors/The Legislative Branch.
The Founders were very familiar with corporations because corporations had played a very large role in the settling of the New World.
Corporations exist for one reason and one reason only, and that is to protect individuals from the abuses of government. Which is why liberals like you hate corporations, because you believe that the government is GOD and is all powerful and anything that mitigates the absolute power of your God is blasphemous to you.
Which is exactly why you liberal hate the Constitution., because it structures the government as a corporation which you hate. You prefer a Parliamentary system where there are no separation of powers.

krp of AR 12:19PM May 16, 2012

" But he said that as a matter of civil law, all Americans should be treated equally."
This guy is just a Fluke-ing idiot. The United States is NOT a civil law country. The United States is a COMMON Law country. FRANCE is a civil law country, not the United States How in the hell could the President of the United States NOT KNOW THIS?
Someone this stupid and this ignorant of the laws of this country should not be the Chief Executive of the United States.
Someone that is trying to instigate civil law on this country, is a traitor, because civil law is NOT American.

krp of AR 12:09PM May 16, 2012

Dr. Sam, of CA.
You are right The Government is not a Business and should not be run like a business.
Government is not a Charity either and can not be run like it has unlimited funds, like a community organization, run by a community organizer.
Obama has been using every possible diversion to avoid campaigning on the Issues the the People of
The United States face this Election Year.
The Real Issues are
JOBS, ECONOMY, DEBT REDUCTION, STOP THE INSANELY RECKLESS SPENDING, CUT THE SIZE AND SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT TO A LEVEL WE CAN AFFORD, STOP SUBSIDIZING GREEN ENERGY THAT COSTS MORE THAN IT IS WORTH.
SIGN THE CANADA TO TEXAS OIL PIPELINE DEAL,
AMERICANS NEED THOSE JOBS,
WE SIT ON 1/5 OF ALL THE OIL IN THE WORLD,
AND OBAMA SITS ON HIS HANDS, AMERICA NEEDS THOSE JOBS AND THE OIL.
THESE ARE THE REAL ISSUES IN 2012
OBAMA IS THE ONLY SHOVEL READY JOB DUMP HIM

Vincent Lawrence of MN 5:58PM May 15, 2012

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! On the other hand, Bill Clinton (no business experience) before them 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 9:32AM May 15, 2012