Kara Swisher on Elon Musk: Yes, Government Doesn’t Work But It’s Not Meant To Be Like a Business

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SWISHER: “Elon Musk has been successful in rocketry, no question, but he's allowed to blow up rockets. He's allowed to do , and it's because he can do it and take those risks and shareholders go along with him. It's quite a different thing when it comes to the federal government. You can't blow up rockets, Scott, by the way, all laughs aside, you really can't because people's lives depend on it. I know you think it's funny, but I don't think it's funny at all. I think one of the issues around him is that he's very innovative and different, but cutting two-third of the federal budget, and we all know that government doesn't work in lots of ways, but it's not meant to be like a startup. It's not meant to be like a business. It's not meant to be like shareholders. And if you treat it that way, we have a very different system where the least among us suffer, and it's just the way it is.”