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Trump administration not equipped to run country
It has suddenly dawned on me.
The United States of America is a nonprofit organization. It was never meant to be a for-profit company.
An article in Pro Publica discussed how nonprofits should look for CEOs and also how for-profits should look for CEOs. There’s a difference in thinking for each.
The point is that never in our founding as a nation was it ever considered that we should try to have our government make a profit. The goal — real or unstated — was to break even, but not to make a profit. A for-profit company has a goal to make as much money as possible. It doesn’t matter if it’s public or private, the bottom line is what counts.
But a nonprofit’s goal is to serve the constituents of its goal. A nonprofit that serves poor preschoolers is only interested in serving those children. Whatever money is taken in is set to serve them. As a nonprofit CEO, you have to answer to a completely different group of people with different goals for the organization.
Then if you add a CEO who’s only experience is in a privately held corporation, he or she won’t know how to handle entities that can override him.
That’s what happened in the 2016 presidential elections. We elected a private, for-profit CEO with absolutely no experience running a nonprofit. And then to top it off, he chose like-minded people to advise him. It’s like handing out knives to the Trump administration to equip them for a gun battle.
Ed Cole
Clarks Summit