Government isn't a business.

It seems to me many Republicans have this delusion that Government can be run the same way you run a business.

In business the single goal is to make money.  All other considerations give way to that goal.  So the successful business people are the most ruthless about laying off employees, or paying employee's as little as they can get away with.  They see no responsibility to their employees, or their customers, beyond what they must do to make the business successful.  The survival of the business trumps all other considerations.  To a large degree business rewards selfish behavior.

Mitt Romney and Herman Cain have both been successful in the business world and their campaign promises demonstrate they believe the same techniques that brought them business success will allow them to turn Government into a more successful enterprise.  Their "business" Republican mantra is cutting taxes, cutting regulation and reducing the size of government.

The problem is government is not a business.  It doesn't have a single easy to grasp goal like making money.  In the United States survival of the government doesn't trump the welfare of the people.   Government has responsibility for all their citizens, a simple fact Republicans often seem to have a difficult time grasping.

When "business" Republicans have been in control of the Republican party they have crippled the country.  The two biggest economic collapses in the last 100 years both followed spells of "business" Republicans controlling the Government.  Business Republicans controlled the party in the 1920's - it was the only time in the last 100 years we had two business men as President back to back - Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.  They had Republican majorities in the House and Senate.  When they took over the country the had balanced budgets and a healthy economy.  They ran the country like a business and by the time the people ushered them out of office in 1933 unemployment was at 25%, millions of houses had been foreclosed upon and we were staggering along in the Great Depression.

The "business" Republicans lost influence for decades after that.  The next three Republican Presidents were Ike, a career military man, Reagan an actor (and ironically the head of a labor union), and George H.W. Bush, who  had lots of business experience but also lots of Government experience and never embraced the "business" Republican mantra.  Then came the next real "business" Republican President, George W. Bush.  We are probably all old enough to remember Mr. Bush promising to cut taxes, cut regulations and cut government.

George W. came into office in 2001 with a balanced budget, a pretty healthy economy, like minded Republican majorities in the House and Senate and ran the country like a CEO.  By the time he left office world financial markets were frozen, we were bailing out Wall Street and unemployment and the deficit were skyrocketing.

We the voters need to tell Republicans the country is not a business and we can't afford to let them run it like one.