Do we really want government as a business?

Heard somebody say the other day that government would be a lot better off if it were run like a business.  That mythiness  has been going around for years, through the collapse of one business after another. So again, government as a business?   You mean like Lehman Brothers, the defunct Wall Street firm and Gov.  Kasich's old employer.  Or how about General Motors,which is taking a lot of heat for its long simmering ignition problems?  Or the countless businesses that die off each year from mismanagement,right?  .