Who Better?

       Ya have to wonder. If the Almighty, himself, came down from the sky, riding a white horse with lightning bolts in one hand and a flaming sword in the other and told us humans to stop destroying our environment, if anybody would take note. What if he struck all the climate denier scientists blind, deaf and dumb, all two dozen of them, if that would make a difference?
       I suppose Republicans would all rush down to Happy Harry's hotdog stand and grab the clerk, Harry's nephew and appoint him head climate denier scientist. Enough money could get him to do it. Maybe an extra fifty a week.
       What if the Almighty decided it wasn't worth the effort. Go ahead let these stupid humans destroy their environment. He can always start over with another life form. Maybe chipmunks. They're cute and they certainly can't do worse than Humans in screwing things up. Of course they'd have to start mining coal and drilling for oil to keep warm. And then they'd have to arm themselves with weaponry to protect themselves from enemies near and far. Have you ever seen a chipmunk tank? Or a chipmunk fighter jet?
       Next thing you know, they'd have the environment in trouble again. And just like Humans, you can't reason with a chipmunk. I know, I've tried. They just look at you with those big brown eyes and steal some bread from  your sandwich. No, I guess chipmunks won't work out either. Maybe a little better than Humans, but not good enough. Snails! Maybe snails would work. They're slow but that could be a blessing. After all, a world dominated by snails might prove to be the perfect solution to a sticky problem.

What We Did Wrong.

       It suddenly dawned on me. The United States of America is a non-profit organization. It was never meant to be a for-profit company. I had just read an article in Pro Publica about how non-profits should look for CEOs and also how for-profits should look for CEOs. And there's a difference in thinking for each. It also mentioned some of the differences between private and public corporations. I'll get to that later.
The point is that never in our foundings as a nation was it ever considered that we should try to have our government make a profit. The goal, real or unstated, was to break even, but not to make a profit. Now a for-profit has a goal to make as much of a profit as possible. It doesn't matter if its public or private, the bottom line is what counts. And a private corporation answers only to the CEO.
       But a non-profit's goal is to serve the constituents of its goal. A non-profit that serves poor preschoolers is only interested in serving those children. Whatever money is taken in is set to serve them. You have to think completely different, one from the other. As a non-profit CEO, you have to answer to a completely different group of people, with different goals for the organization.
       Then if you add a CEO who's only experience is in a privately held corporation, he or she won't know how to handle entities that can override him. That's what happened in the 2016 presidential elections. Never mind all the rhetoric and the allegations back and forth, we elected a private, for-profit CEO with absolutely no experience running a non-profit. And then to top it off, he chose like minded and trained people to advise him. Its like handing out knives to his administration to equip them for a gun battle.