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<p><strong>Trump administration not equipped to run country</strong></p><p>It has suddenly dawned on me.</p><p>The United States of America is a nonprofit organization. It was never meant to be a for-profit company.</p><p>An article in Pro Publica discussed how nonprofits should look for CEOs and also how for-profits should look for CEOs. There&#8217;s a difference in thinking for each.</p><p>The point is that never in our founding as a nation was it ever considered that we should try to have our government make a profit. The goal &#8212; real or unstated &#8212; was to break even, but not to make a profit. A for-profit company has a goal to make as much money as possible. It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s public or private, the bottom line is what counts.</p><p>But a nonprofit&#8217;s goal is to serve the constituents of its goal. A nonprofit that serves poor preschoolers is only interested in serving those children. Whatever money is taken in is set to serve them. As a nonprofit CEO, you have to answer to a completely different group of people with different goals for the organization.</p><p>Then if you add a CEO who&#8217;s only experience is in a privately held corporation, he or she won&#8217;t know how to handle entities that can override him.</p><p>That&#8217;s what happened in the 2016 presidential elections. We elected a private, for-profit CEO with absolutely no experience running a nonprofit. And then to top it off, he chose like-minded people to advise him. It&#8217;s like handing out knives to the Trump administration to equip them for a gun battle.</p><p><strong>Ed Cole</strong></p><p>Clarks Summit</p><style>
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