And don't focus on one word in your reply either. I explained many reasons why a government is not a business. The "profit" part is only one, if you care to read.
Judah On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I never said I made a profit until I sold the business. But it didn't run in > the negative for the last 11 years. Don't focus on one word. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 7:41 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Me for President? Ewika VP ? > > > I don't think that the country ought to be profit-driven, so no, it > shouldn't be run like a business. The government, in fact, is there to > operate the least profitable services for the common welfare. If it was a > for profit business, we'd sell off all the federal lands, stop public > education, drop the interstate highway system...the list goes on. > > There things about the government that you could liken to a non-profit > business, I suppose, but I'm not really sure what all that gets you. > Probably better to just think in terms of trying to establish a well run > government. > > Judah > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It isn't? We make purchases, sales, investments, hire, fire, bad >> accounting..... >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 11:02 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: Me for President? Ewika VP ? >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm an independent neutralized repubocrat and will side with >>> whichever side works for me to make things right! I have lots of ideas in > my mind.. >>> If >>> I can run my own small business for over 11 yrs, sell it for a small >>> profit then I can run a country for 4.. Who is with me????? >>> >> >> >> Our government is not a business and should not be ran like one. >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356343 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
