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Ontario Premier Drug Fraud is defunding our libraries. 50%. He's a high school, illiterate drop out. The only time he was in a library was to do his drug deals. It all tracks.

Government by definition needs to do the chores in which there’s no profit. It needs to be an unbusiness. If there’s profit afoot, a business is already doing it.

*conceived

Many things run by the government are fabulous and efficient.

To be fair, they are run by Librarians. And Librarians are the most incredible people around. Seriously! We should elect a Librarian to run everything. Run the country like a Library! I need that on a T-Shirt

Ideally it should not be. But it is. Definition of Cartel: A combination of independent business organizations formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods by the members. A group of parties, factions united in a common cause. A bloc. From The American Heritage® Dictionary

When my kids were little and I was a sahm, the library was a lifeline. So much free entertainment and access to community.

I'm tired of this "run the gov't like a business" nonsense. It's not a business--it's a government. Apples and oranges 🍎🍊

In a country with a massive homelessness problem, they're also shelters for the most disadvantaged.

Businesses have the luxury of failure. Governments do not. I work for a town that was founded in 1698. It’s still paying its bills and will until the end of civilization as we know it.

This is just code for “make government as corrupt as business”

we’ve elected two “CEO presidents.” They both broke the economy. Only a fool would claim one can run a government like a business. Their goals are completely different.

People who say that government should be run like a business fall into one of two categories... wealthy elites and morons.

Why would anyone want anything run like an American business?! They are increasingly shittier every single day. Clothes don’t have hems or waistbands. 500$ viscose dresses. Panera food is 25$ slop and insurance companies are trying to kill you faster than cancer.

I never understood the whole ‘government should be run like a business’ thing. It’s extremely dangerous. What is a CEO if not a king over his domain, with absolute power to destroy any employee, skirt or outright ignore ethics to alter any business practice that cuts in to profit margins, etc.?

The average cost of sending a student to private school is not cheaper than sending a student to public school. But the public schools hire more qualified teachers, vet them more carefully, pay them much more, and give them pensions and health insurance.

Government isn't supposed to be a business. It is community service.

And now we’re going to be run by a fraudster who literally was able to bankrupt a casino. There isn’t even a pretense of his government’s being either “by the people” or “for the people.”

TRASHTRUMP RUNS EVERYTHING HE OWNS LIKE A W]=[ORE HOUSE PIMP , JUST LIKE HIS GRANDFATHER

Equating libraries to the government as a whole is one of the more stupid comparisons I’ve seen recently.

I always feel like "run government like a single mother" would be better. or single father I guess. but holy heck they know how to get the most out of money and also know the importance of investing in people/kids and services like libraries and public transport.

The idea that the government should be run like a business is an example of wildly successful propaganda.

They will fail and the country will fail. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1

a business would tax churches, wouldn't it?

Nevermind the guy we're talking about has filed bankruptcy like 6 times, found liable in class action discrimination lawsuits, defrauded NY of $400m, also businesses don't ask Congress for permission to do anything and the purpose of government is kinda the opposite of a corporation. Mind blowing

My stock answer to this, which is not original, is "Government needs to be run like a democracy. Not a business."

Librarians are the most poorly paid professional graduates. But sure, volunteers and low paid library assistants can operate the systems. Just not set it all up, monitor customer response, keep abreast of new resources and decide digital, media, and paper acquisitions. And much more...

Recall that Trump spent his last four years in power trying to de-fund public libraries. So, they must be doing something right. Get a library card. Become a card-carrying member of your local library.

Lots to admire about Iceland. Love how they honor books.

"run government like a business" Hang on. Businesses are run to extract as much profit as possible. 🤔

Don't forget after school child care

You don't want your library operated for profit? Me neither. If I did, I would just go to Barnes and Noble.

I mean, if the government was built to make money, for one, it would have literally no debt. If the government's purpose was to make money, our current taxes would pay off the government debt within a decade. But they don't, because the government's job is not to make money.

When government is run like a business, we get outcomes like the tragedy of Flint, MI.

I don't agree that the government should be run like a business and certainly not T**** business. He filed bankruptcy 6 times.

Pendejos

Nothing shady to see here bsky.app/profile/symb...

This push to make everything akin to a business is absurd! The moment a businesslike tenor becomes the heart of our entire anthropology, we will hit a point of no return.

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Instead, we should run businesses like the government (public services with no regard to profitability, no shareholders, owned and operated by the public with public accountability). I genuinely mean this. Markets always fail. They cannot work efficiently. Nationalize everything.

🎶You don't have to take this crap You don't have to sit back and relax You can actually try changing it I know we've always been taught to rely Upon those in authority But you never know until you try How things just might be Governments crack and systems fall 'Cause unity is powerful!

I love it!

I go to a big box book store, find a book, and read for a while in their reading area. If I like it, I go to my fav local bookstore and order it. Kinda the opposite of a lot of folks. Sorry, not sorry.

And get rid of fire depts and police depts -- those slackers don't turn a profit!

I care for a 97 yr old woman who's legally blind and deaf. She calls her library nearly every day with a question. They are here eyes and ears. Free to her.

If they run government like a business libraries won’t be free

Thank Andrew Carnegie, who left most of his $666 million fortune (in 1918), to fund Public Libraries. He left $25,000, (then, $594,678.57, today) to each of his children, said, "If they can't make it on that, they don't deserve to."

Agree 200%

thinking about usps is what prompted me to post!

And run it into the ground!

Government accounting standards are different than normal accounting because the aim of business is to calculate profit and the aim of government is services provided. It fundamentally cannot be run like a business.

Try making library services *more* efficient with current resources … GOOD LUCK … they are run like a well oiled machine.

My personal Person of the Year pick in the era of Fahrenheit 451 (which of course is banned by Dictator DeSantis in Florida)

Nobody ever says to run the police dept or the fire dept like a business.

If your local library doesn't carry a "banned" book try requesting it through their Interlibrary Loan service. They can often obtain a copy (free) from a library in another city or state to be sent for you to borrow. Including children's books!

Voting only works in a functional democracy. When money is speech, and corporations are people, citizens cannot compete with these very “loud people.”

Well I think people that say that are actually talking about the federal government. 95% of library funding comes from local taxes not state or fed. It’s a good point but maybe use Medicare as your example.

All the "run government like a business" talk seems to miss the fact that poor business practices are almost always bailed out by the government...

Libraries are my version of ‘church’.

I feel like politicians always ignore how public libraries are good for the economy. I’ve attended classes for small business owners and referenced so many books from the library for marketing etc

No grants allowed for profit driven companies of any type. Certainly can run government same as a corporation for profit. Cut all credit for borrowing. ✅

It didn't work during #Hitler's last regime. It won't work, now. Government is supposed to serve the people. #VotetsNotDonors

Businesses deal with profit and loss, but governments deal with life and death. Huge difference.

seriously, look at your municipal or county budget docs and see how much your libraries do with mere nickels and dimes