Clinton: United States government is a trust [View All]

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Thank you.

I remember in 1992 when Perot was talking about running the government like a business I was talking back to the TV, telling him that businesses shed bad assets that, in the government case, would be the sick and the poor and the elderly. Clearly taking care of them is not a "good" business decision.

This concept also holds for private health insurance companies that pay their CEOs millions and are traded on the stock exchange. For them, sick people are bad assets that need to be disposed of.


From the debate trascript

CUMMINGS: Well, we've got a question on this that's come in on politico.com, and it echoes, I think, a message that you all might be fighting up against if Mitt Romney turns out to be your opponent come the fall. We've talked about McCain, now we have Romney's strengths to address.

Now, Howard Meyerson (ph) of Pasadena, California, says he views the country as a very large business, and neither one of you have ever run a business. So, why should either of you be elected to be CEO of the country?

CLINTON: Well, I would, with all due respect, say that the United States government is much more than a business. It is a trust.

t is the most complicated organization. But it is not out to make a profit. It is out to help the American people. It is about to stand up for our values and to do what we should at home and around the world to keep faith with who we are as a country.

And with all due respect, we have a president who basically ran as the CEO, MBA president, and look what we got. I am not too happy about the results.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/31/dem.debate.transcript/index.html