{"id":27169,"date":"2009-09-22T08:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T08:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/22\/running-the-government-like-a\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T08:13:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T08:13:15","slug":"running-the-government-like-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/running-the-government-like-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Running the government like a business"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The main reason that a government shouldn&#8217;t be run like a business is the profit motive.  There is a key point here that the &#8220;government should be run like a business&#8221; people miss.  The goal of government is decidedly not profit. The purpose of government is &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/09\/government-should-run-like-a-business\/\"><br \/>\nMike&#8217;s post at Quiche Moraine is chock full of insight on this question. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main reason that a government shouldn&#8217;t be run like a business is the profit motive. There is a key point here that the &#8220;government should be run like a business&#8221; people miss. The goal of government is decidedly not profit. The purpose of government is &#8230; Mike&#8217;s post at Quiche Moraine is chock full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/running-the-government-like-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Running the government like a business<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-74d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}