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Obama holdover: Trump style 'quicker, more decisive'

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Obama didn't understand business. He was an economic... business illiterate.
 
The government is not a business though. You are not trying to maximize profit, you are trying to create policy.
 
This could also be interpreted as more "brash" and "reckless."
 
The government is not a business though. You are not trying to maximize profit, you are trying to create policy.

You also need to create and manage a budget, hire people and make sure they perform and many other things that are just like a business.
 
The government is not a business though. You are not trying to maximize profit, you are trying to create policy.

Actually no, they've shown that they're looking out for themselves and for a profit.
 
You also need to create and manage a budget, hire people and make sure they perform and many other things that are just like a business.

All of which are completely different from how it works in the private sector.
 
All of which are completely different from how it works in the private sector.

If you have experience with those things in the private sector it without a doubt has value in government.
 
If you have experience with those things in the private sector it without a doubt has value in government.

What experience is that, stiffing contractors, employees and losing legal battles with biographers?
 
What experience is that, stiffing contractors, employees and losing legal battles with biographers?

The experience I mentioned. budgets, hiring, performance monitoring, setting policy.. the same things that are done in business that are done in government.
 
The experience I mentioned. budgets, hiring, performance monitoring, setting policy.. the same things that are done in business that are done in government.

... and hows that working out for you.

You know, the budgeting, hiring and performance monitoring?

The policy setting speaks for itself.
 
... and hows that working out for you.

You know, the budgeting, hiring and performance monitoring?

The policy setting speaks for itself.

Not as well as I would like. Better than the previous administration though.
 
Not as well as I would like. Better than the previous administration though.

:lamo Yea Right.

Well no one is happier than me of your Party's Progress.

Please, keep up the stellar success, us Dem's are counting on you.
 
:lamo Yea Right.

Well no one is happier than me of your Party's Progress.

Please, keep up the stellar success, us Dem's are counting on you.

you know what they say about assuming. I'm not a republican.
 
All of which are completely different from how it works in the private sector.
Wait what?

You mean government workers don't have performance metrics, budgets, and people never get fired for incompetence...

Actually you're right on this one. The government is not like a business but maybe it should be more like a business.
 
Wait what?

You mean government workers don't have performance metrics, budgets, and people never get fired for incompetence...

Actually you're right on this one. The government is not like a business but maybe it should be more like a business.

The goal is not to maximize profit, you don't have to keep shareholders happy, government policy and workers cannot be measured purely by the revenues they generate.
 
The goal is not to maximize profit, you don't have to keep shareholders happy, government policy and workers cannot be measured purely by the revenues they generate.

The concept of efficiency in government is so alien to liberals that they literally cannot comprehend it!
 
The concept of efficiency in government is so alien to liberals that they literally cannot comprehend it!

I never said anything about efficiency but the point of government is not to maximize profit, it completely changes how you have to manage everything. Most businesses struggle with that concept as well, they do not understand non-revenue generating departments.
 
The concept of efficiency in government is so alien to liberals that they literally cannot comprehend it!

Rubbish. Britain's NHS administration costs were 4% for years, until "marketisation" has pushed that up. US healthcare admin costs are still overwhelming by comparison.
 
What experience is that, stiffing contractors, employees and losing legal battles with biographers?
No no nooo.

Can tell its a concept alien to you and your oh so progressive buds. Specially after the last 8 of doing the major loser thing. No joke, the actual, measurable easily graphable monsterous deficits at the polls, the polls that count, not just the ones that come out wrong and then fixed...

You see, you folks have no experince winning, that nor of not just standing around, looking sheepishly about left and further left to see if anybody noticed where you put your thumbs. Red lines drawn, strategic patience.. ring any hollow bells?
 

Which doesn't preclude anything I said: performance metrics, staying within budgets, terminating employment for lack of performance. There are plenty of charity organization that don't operate a budget either and they have all of these things. So don't try to hide behind "you can't generate a profit in government" to hide your ignorance.
 
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