"America Is Not, in Fact, a Corporation"

"America certainly needs better economic policies than it has right now—and while most of the blame for poor policies belongs to Republicans and their scorched-earth opposition to anything constructive, the president has made some important mistakes. But we’re not going to get better policies if the man sitting in the Oval Office next year sees his job as being that of engineering a leveraged buyout of America Inc."       

Paul Krugman in The New York Times criticizes the idea of a businessman as president.