Trump’s Cabinet looks like himself: super-rich, and with no government experience

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President-elect Donald Trump has picked a Cabinet dominated by business tycoons with no government experience nor patience for history lessons. In other words, he will be surrounded by people like himself.

There is nothing wrong with appointing successful corporate barons, rather than government bureaucrats, to top Cabinet posts: It’s an old American tradition.

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed GM’s chief executive officer Charles Wilson as Secretary of Defense in 1953, he famously said — or was misquoted as saying — “What’s good for General Motors is good for America.”

But history has proven that what’s good for big corporations is not always good for America. The top priority for corporations — justifiably so — is to make a profit at the end of the year, whereas governments must think long-term, and enforce civil rights and environmental practices to prevent potential disasters decades down the road.

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