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.