This is a quote from "Capitalism: Servant or Master?" p.55
"My candidate for the Nine Most Terrifying Words would be these: “I will make the government run like a business.”
"This call of perennial foolishness echoes through the pages of political campaigning history. “I am a businessman – I know how to meet deadlines and payrolls, turn a profit, and I will make this government run like a business! Just elect me!” What’s wrong with this? Well, it is like plowing a field with an airplane instead of a tractor, kicking a mirror like a football, or frying your orange juice for breakfast."
State Senator Aaron Bean recalls that during Rick Scott’s first few months in office, the governor of Florida held several events in Bean’s district without asking the local legislator to attend and stand alongside him.
“He’s getting better,” says Bean, also a Republican. “He’s not a politician. He was a CEO. He’s used to walking into a meeting and dictating what’s going to happen, then leaving and expecting everything to be done.”
Carol Weissert, a political scientist professor at Florida State University, also ascribes Scott’s apparent inability to win over Floridians to his lack of political experience. “The bottom line,” she says, “is that business is just so different from politics. The skill set is so different. Just because somebody’s a good businessman doesn’t mean they’ll be a good governor, and I think we’ve seen that with Scott.”
