{"id":2495,"date":"2016-07-23T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T14:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2016-07-23T10:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T14:58:37","slug":"2495","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Running Government as a Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2496\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2496\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/JPA044.jpg\" alt=\"Running Government Like a Business\" width=\"560\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/JPA044.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/JPA044-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/07\/JPA044.jpg&amp;name=Running Government Like a Business...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked in the business world for quite some time now. From private to public companies, startups to established corporations, employee to contractor. I even had my own company for a dozen years. So I think I have a fairly broad understanding. Still, I&#8217;ve never really bought into the idea that being a successful business person necessarily will make you a good public servant.<br \/>\nSure, things like the desire to be in charge, being a good steward of resources, knowing when to inspire and when to delegate \u2014 those are going to be helpful whether you&#8217;re CEO or governor. But functionally, the two jobs are very different animals. An elected leader needs to embrace the integrity of a purposely restricted system (laws); private business owners are ultimately only responsible to themselves.<br \/>\nIt scares me when those promoting the idea don&#8217;t seem to be aware of the differences (or willfully ignore them). Ironically, many of Donald Trump&#8217;s standard business practices align more readily with the worst behaviors of a government bureaucrat: reneging on deals, aggressive deficit spending, opaque and authoritarian rule.<br \/>\nI just don&#8217;t see how &#8220;I will run the government like a business&#8221; would be an easy sell to Michigan voters. Especially when Governor Snyder already seems to have, um, poisoned those waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve worked in the business world for quite some time now. From private to public companies, startups to established corporations, employee to contractor. I even had my own company for a dozen years. So I think I have a fairly broad understanding. Still, I&#8217;ve never really bought into the idea that being a successful business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}