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The foreign occupier is a menace to our nation and damn near everyone living here.
Posted on 03/02/2011 8:57:34 PM PST by kathsua
Lost in all of the news about the economy, joblessness, deficits, taxes, health care, etc., is the giant elephant in the room, which I will call the "public employment bubble."
This bubble has inflated slowly and subtly, not unlike the housing bubble that we saw burst a couple of years ago and is a product of the same government inefficiency, overreach, corruption and ignorance. History is in the process of repeating itself due to our elected representatives not recognizing the problem and/or not moving to correct the problem soon enough, which is happening right now at every level.
The move toward ever-increasing numbers of public employees has been gradual, and for decades now, it has entrenched itself into almost every form of government. There have been many reasons for this expansion, but in many cases, it is essentially a self-perpetuating condition.
The federal government expands due to a Congress that continually writes regulations and laws that require by their very nature enforcement; therefore, the hiring of more people to do so. State employment rolls expand for much the same reason, and additionally due to the building of large amounts of infrastructure that require maintenance and upkeep; hence, more people.
The state and county governments also fall into the trap of thinking they can actually perform work such as the construction of infrastructure projects cheaper than the private sector, so they create whole departments to do the work internally, which results in what I like to call "kingdom building," where department heads stake out their own territory and manage their own staff and assets like they are some sort of untouchable entity.
The state and local expansion occurs every time someone breaks a sweat performing their duties, thus perpetuating the need for even more people and more expensive equipment, which also needs to be maintained, thus requiring (drum roll, please) more people.
I would defy anyone to show me anything more over-administered than the education systems of this country. We have a ridiculous amount of school administration going on at every level, including the same kingdom building process I mentioned above, which necessitates the need for six separate autonomous school districts in a county of 60,000 people know as Reno.
The bottom line is that the slow response and rapid deterioration of the public financial picture is about to implode nationally.
During the last two weeks, the House has debated spending cuts of $50 billion to $75 billion for this year. During the same two weeks, the deficit grew by more than $56 billion. Am I wrong to be a pessimistic? I don't think so.
Prepare for the POP.
spare NOTHING!
We ALL could use a little less government in our lifes!
As long as the fish is being processed before it SPOILS...
Public sector jobs will be cut over the next two years to balance budgets. The size of the cuts will depend on union concessions and the will of politicians. Between this and gasoline going up by 40%, we will probably see a double dip recession.
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The foreign occupier is a menace to our nation and damn near everyone living here.
I think it's worse- this one has rabies and irritable bowl syndrome (see WI demonstrators).
Add to that, the handler- you know, the guy with the stick with a hook on one end, aka: Media, is passed-out on the couch from too much vodka and too much crack.
States will face bankruptcy or layoffs and cuts. The vote buying schemes perpetrated for years at taxpayer's expense will end- encouraging election outcomes that may better reflect the will of the people.
Since government produces little of tangible value, little will be missed with cuts in personnel. You can't miss something that wasn't there to begin with. Since the private sector does produce tangible value (that can be taxed) it only makes sense to have more of it and less of the other. A no-brainer, really.
Thanks, go to the rob-o-crats and public unions for feathering their nests such that they're about to fall out of the tree. Stand back, this'll get messy.
they’ll have to be for the government to survive. At some point, it’ll be eliminate the government agencies or eliminate the private sector.
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