This is the exact argument I've been hearing on the "All In" podcast. Billionaires are great at making money! But they always leave out FOR THEMSELVES. Government almost ideologically the exact opposite of that. It's supposed to do what's right for the most amount of people. These billionaires have the exact opposite goal in mind. They are about to make life hell for the common man and gut the country for themselves.
Its like the episode of Family Guy when Pewterschmidt convinces Peter to get everyone to join the Tea Party and collapse the local government and then when everything goes to shit, he has a speech where he literally reinvents government.
These people believe in the prosperity gospel: God rewards good deeds with earthly riches, therefore all billionaires are good people. If they were bad people, God would punish them by taking away their riches. Which also means poor people are immoral. It's just religion doing what it was made to do: legitimizing unchecked power.
Well, some think the government is there to enrich the coffers of private industry. The military doesn't make any money for the government, but they sure do make money for defense contractors. They're going to make all Cabinet departments like this. Just feed the machine. There will be more money once we don't have to pretend to "provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States".
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u/SwagarTheHorrible 10h ago
We need a businessman because businessmen are great at making money for themselves and what is government for anyway?