Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, is the lucky winner of $40 billion that Donald Trump managed to conjure from thin air. Less lucky are the Americans who rely on the government programs Trump has gutted to be able to “save” that sum.

Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, is the lucky winner of $40 billion that Donald Trump managed to conjure from thin air. Less lucky are the Americans who rely on the government programs Trump has gutted to be able to “save” that sum.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      That’s another thing that Dems should be fighting. The government is NOT a business, and shouldn’t be run like one. The government is far larger than ALL businesses combined, and is tasked with regulating those corporations, and the business environment. Running a business, and running America, require two totally separate skill sets, which both require specialized training.

      The problem is that businessmen become successful, and when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So they start to think that the answer to America’s problems is to apply proven business strategies, and then they get confused when it never works out. Profit should not be a nation’s objective.

      That’s a primary reason that I automatically reject any billionaire, or even multi-millionaire, candidate. Even if their heart is in the right place (which it seldom is with Oligarchs), their policy concepts are flawed by their insistence on their adherence to profit strategies.

      The bottom line is that America does not exist to make a profit.