Shouldn't limited govt work and mostly private sector work be a disadvantage?

[batmacumba]

No because outside of the party, there is the real world where not everything is based on or revolves around government. I'm sick of hearing how government experience is a plus. Run the government and the country like a successful business and we'll do fine. Forget the leftwing talking points and just balance the budget and cut taxes even if it means cutting a few services. Unfortunately since FDR we've had the mentality on the left about how having government services is important but it has been overstated in order to make people dependent on the democratic party. Obama doesn't understand economic, have a clue how supply and demand works, and has never held a job in his life. Now he wants to tell my doctor what's what? This is the kind of thing that happens when you don't treat our government and budget like a business. If a business goes under from bad decision making, so should the ruling class or in this case democrats.

When a business cracks, it's usually closed and dug the owner onto debts; or else someone buy it for a cheap amount.  This seems to me pretty similar to what happened in 2008.
That's just one of the myriad of reasons government should not be managed like business. The main reality of business is throwing yourself into risk and battle to not make wrong moves nor be affected by a contingency problem, or you're doomed. I really can't believe that people wants this to actually happen to their country.

BTW, good luck in not selling it to China.

Have you seen public sector pensions? They are exorbitant and funded by taxpayers who have no hope of seeing similar plans. How is this fair?

Shouldn't the unfair part be the low private sector pensions, rather than the ones on public sector?

[batmacumba]

Nobody is saying that the Gov't can or should be run like a business completely. That is an exaggeration.

No because outside of the party, there is the real world where not everything is based on or revolves around government. I'm sick of hearing how government experience is a plus. Run the government and the country like a successful business and we'll do fine. Forget the leftwing talking points and just balance the budget and cut taxes even if it means cutting a few services.

BTW, if I didn't know how to run a business, I wouldn't be able to wright right now, once I'm on a cafe, write on phones sucks and iPads are really expensive here.
And, once I am a nice and altruist person and once the girl went to the ladie's room, I'll give you folks some tips on business management which are pretty basic on contemporary administration.
First, no one run a business based on budget primarily, unless you're going bad and the economic environment is working against you at the same time. Even then, you gotta prepare the B plan soon, since such a strategy doesn't work for long.
Public servants on the administrative area knows about this things very well, It's called Strategic Management. And, sure, some aspects can be shared by both sectors, which are usually done. One of the most successful and studied cases is, indeed, their application on the American public service during Clinton administration. Who, BTW, is a lawyer by profession. And succeeded an entrepreneur with a loooong business family tradition...

Anyway, we've already got our share of businessman on chargehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Collor_de_Mello, here, and I really don't want anything similar to that crap again.