politics

This is what people don't understand about government. I was a Ross Perot supporter back in the 90s, and bought into his concept of running the government like a business. I've learned a lot since then, and even though I still respect Perot the man, I have come to disagree with nlmost of his political concepts.

The government shouldn't be run like a business because it isn't a business; a government is a completely different kind of entity. Think of the enormous size of a super corporation like GM, or Disney, or Apple. Then realize that the US government is bigger than EVERY corporation in America - COMBINED. The government is so big, it tells corporations how to behave, ALL corporations.

Any American corporation has one single over-riding objective - to maximize profits. The government has no such profit motive, it's objective is to leverage our tax revenues and our credit in the world economy to our nation's highest benefit. That requires entirely different skillsets than many businesspeople. Successful businesspeople often believe that their success in the business world will translate to the government world, only to find out that government is much more complex in many different ways.

I no longer agree with Perot's concept of Kitchen Table Economics, but I still agree with his concept for Election Reform. He wanted presidential campaigns to be 90 days long, and funded by the government. That would keep them short enough that there wouldnt be enough time for much propagamda nonsense. Since they couldn't take any money from public or corporate donors, there would be no quid pro quo deals between candidates and big money donors. That means the ONLY currency of value in any election would be the citizen's single vote, and candidates would have to sell themselves to the citizens for those votes, instead of to corporations and the wealthy.

You're incorrect mostly because the postal service (pretty famously at least in leftist spaces) DID make money (not every year admittedly). In fact, by law (aka cuz capitalists got mad) the post office is expected to ensure pricing covers the cost of fulfillment so the market stays competitive. Arguably, the main reason it is facing difficulties is because the government tried to force some bs payments onto it that were reversed by Biden in 2022. Regardless, you're kind of making my point? It really feels like people are not reading what I wrote. The argument that a government agency needs funding and therefore can't be a source of cost cutting or revenue is a bad argument. Governments require money to function. If the agency costs money, saves money, or makes money, it doesn't matter. At some point, money will need to be allocated to it, even if it's just to start it up. Saying "it costs money so that a problem" doesn't make sense as an argument, even if it's used against doge.

For clarity: I AM PRO POST OFFICE AND ANTI DOGE.

I never said they did (or didn't)? Clearly they are attempting to now, but my comment was not really about doge in specific. I said that needing funding is not inherently antithetical to a cost cutting department, and that it's not really a valid reason to take issue with a department. I also said more than once that I don't like/support doge.

Not sure if it's a reading comprehension issue, or people are on edge because literal fascist are coming out from the woodwork, but not every comment against Doge/Trump/Elon is valid (most are) and not every comment pointing that out is inherently fascist.

Nah, you're all good. You never know how to read things online. I'll leave it up just in case it saves someone else the time lol.