Some More News: Should the Government Be Run "Like A Business"?
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Hi. People say “the government should run more like a business” all the time, but when you think about it, that’s a pretty bad idea precisely because of how businesses work. Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through our link.
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Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Shawn Depasquale and Christopher Bell
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello, howdy. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, hello, howdy, as they say. |
| 0:08.1 | Is everyone enjoying their big, beautiful lack of healthcare? |
| 0:10.9 | Super cool. |
| 0:11.9 | Hey, here's some cool news. |
| 0:13.6 | You ever wonder what the hell happened to the country? |
| 0:16.0 | That wasn't news, but not everything has to be news, you know? |
| 0:19.0 | I guess what I'm actually asking is, |
| 0:21.3 | what exactly is the disconnect that makes some people look at Donald Trump and think, yeah, |
| 0:25.8 | that's the guy? It's a weird question nine years too late. What I mean is, even more recently, |
| 0:31.7 | why did some people, at one point at least, think that it was a good idea for Elon Musk to get |
| 0:37.2 | involved with the government. |
| 0:38.8 | Well, coincidentally, there's a beefy group of people in this country who think that the government |
| 0:43.5 | should be more efficient, like a corporation, you see. One of the first things Donald Trump |
| 0:48.7 | campaigned on, besides the racism, was that he'd run the country like a CEO, a racist one, presumably to make the country |
| 0:56.0 | profitable and streamlined and racist. It's a similar promise behind bringing Musk on board in the |
| 1:02.3 | first place. There seems to be a very influential political philosophy around the idea that the |
| 1:07.5 | government should be run like a business, isn't there? It's not the only reason people have gravitated toward Trump, |
| 1:13.6 | but there is this fantasy that he's this stern daddy CEO type |
| 1:17.6 | who will get things done. |
| 1:19.6 | Just like he got things done running his many successful businesses, |
| 1:22.6 | don't look it up. |
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