No politician, no matter how honest, can survive unless he's elected. No businessman, regardless of his comittment to his customers, can survive unless he makes a profit. Both inhabit an unstable social dynamic, and only in opposition can a truly stable and humane political economy evolve.

There's a small flaw in the equivalence between CEOs and Senators, businesses and government: One of these organizations has no competition.

If Microsoft was the ONLY company in America legally permitted to sell a computer operating system, how much difference would it really make that you can switch out the president and board of the company every few years?

Most of the government bureaucracy is self-sustaining, and run by people who are not elected, and only marginally affected by people who are elected.

I think you would find a lot of people who would tell you they don't think it makes that much difference which party is in charge in Washington. The system is where a lot of the problems lie, and the inertia involved in changing it from the top down.

Your basic concept is sound, but it doesn't stretch as far as you think it does. All else being equal, state power will always be more dangerous than economic power. As I pointed out elsewhere, while there have certainly been abuses of the public by businesses, sometimes even involving danger and death, the numbers and extent pale when compared to what governments have done over the years.

When governments take over the economic sector, you infest the economy with the dangers of government power, and gain very little back. In such a society, it might actually be possible for you to have no choice as to which operating system you buy.

The theory of proper government is that, given that government is designed to be the sole legitimate repository of force in a society, that its activities and powers should be severely limited. This was the intent of the writers of the Constitution, but it fell by the wayside in later years.

Hillary claims she wants to reduce Presidential power. That's nice--I'll believe it when I see it--but I'd like to see some reduction in the power of the overall organization, too.