Tag: budget cuts


Would anybody want to run a business the way we run our country?

Would anybody want to run a business the way we run our country?

Frequently political candidates run on a campaign of running  government more like a business. Presumably they mean things like more accountability and focus on results, as opposed to, say, accounting scandals or taking risks that put the country’s whole economy in peril. Lately as I follow news out of Washington, from the fiscal cliff to the massive budget cuts called sequestration,…