Running the Government Like a Business.

One way we could balance the budget is to eliminate costly elections and confirmation fights.  It would be frugal and efficient to delegate to the CEO's of the two largest corporations in each state, along with the head of the Chamber of Commerce the responsibility of choosing our leaders and judges.   They're making most of the decisions anyway.  Why not make it official and save some money?

There will be resistance to change.  Nattering nabobs of negativism such as the Arkansas Times will have to be dragged into the twenty first century. 
 “It could happen in Arkansas, the way it's happened elsewhere. Rove, the Republican Party strategist and lead handler of George Bush, helped business interests unseat a Democratic chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was believed soft on plaintiffs. He's done similar work in his home state of Texas.
Over the last decade, the Chamber of Commerce has poured millions of dollars into state Supreme Court races around the country, seeking — usually successfully — to get rid of justices who've displeased corporations by ruling against them in lawsuits.”  Reforming judicial elections in Arkansas Task force at work. by Doug Smith
Big deal!  If Doug Smith is so damned smart, why ain't he rich?