They produce nothing and this includes Congressional staffers. Further, it includes the lazy civilians who fill DOD jobs that uniformed military personnel should be filling.
What are they suppose to be spending it on, new trucks?
It is a delivery service, most of it's budget will be spend on the people doing the deliveries.
There is an argument to be made here, but this is not it.
Good article, as far as it goes - the author misses, or ignores, the fact that Congress has abdicated much of its Legislative power to the bureaucracies, who can, and do, create and enforce ‘regulations’ which levy taxes and criminal sanctions, without even lip-service to ‘representation’ by the electorate....
A far more dangerous development than the venality of ‘public servants’......
>> The millions that have crawled next to the teat on the sow that is today’s government need to hit the streets to find a jab.
Because the private sector is creating so many jobs right now???
This article is a case of someone having a good point and then taking it to the point of absurdity.
The Postal Service spends most of its money on people. Wow! What should they spend it on? Speedboats? They deliver mail. By hand. That’s a labor-intensive business.
Nurses are a welfare program? Ever spend a any time in a hospital? They work their butts off. You see nurses constantly and see a doctor for about a minute.
The auto industry sells cars so it can hire more workers and bosses can go to the Bahamas? Well, the current business model has them making less cars, getting government handouts, laying off workers, AND the bosses still go to the Bahamas.
And is GOING BANKRUPT.
So where is the logical place to start cutting...
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It is my opinion that we cannot survive as a nation without outright rejection and repudiation of socialism. It is time we realize that we are at war within our own borders against socialism.
It is high time that we take the gloves off, and start shining a bright and public light on the characteristics of those in our society who think it’s perfectly fine to essentially steal from those who work.
The vast majority of people I know who have more wealth than the average, worked very hard to get it. It’s time to say FU to the leeches in society who don’t want to work, but who use their vote as a weapon to take from those who do.
I truly believe that, left to their own decision making, most Americans that have been fortunate to have good health and have their efforts pay off would voluntarily give charitably to a level that would actually provide more for the truly needy than the government supplies them.
The left, however, hates charity, because it doesn’t fit their theme of making villains out of everyone who is successful. They need a bourgeoisie to incite the masses against.
While some of the examples might not be on point (nurses in particular), he’s got the big picture right. The idea of stated goal versus internal aims of these organization is on the mark.
I’ve noted in the past that Communism is entrepreneurship for the apparatchiks. Instead of competing with each other in the marketplace, they vie to see how much power and wealth they can extract from those who aren’t in the in-crowd.
Our system is less hierarchical than the Party was, but many of the subgroups such as SEIU or the NEA share the same features in terms of their relationship with the normal, non-organized economy. If you’re not in one of these groups, you’re fair game.
The solution? I don’t know if there is one short of collapse and rebirth, but if there is, it involves a much smaller government and legal code. The government’s job is to protect it’s citizens from groups that gang up on it; that’s why we have a military and police. But, over the past century, in the name of fairness, we’ve allowed many groups to organize against the public. To borrow a phrase from the title of Amy Shales’ book, who sticks up for the forgotten man?
Just the tragedy of the commons writ large. Back in the day there was a small pool of common money to help people who were truly in need and deliver govt. services that really were deemed essential. Sooner or later the pigs got up to the trough and said we need more slop. And more slop was given. And so it went. Now there only pigs and barely anyone to work the farm, to grow the grain, and to look after the pigs. The end result is not going to be pretty.
That is EXACTLY what I have been saying and what I least understand about the people of this country. This country was founded with the experiences of lack of trust in our government and it is built right into the Constitution.
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“Further, it includes the lazy civilians who fill DOD jobs that uniformed military personnel should be filling.”
Uniformed military personnel who must be kept at combat levels of fitness and readiness, get rotated in/out of jobs every few years and - if they stay in that long - can retire after 20 years.
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The central socialist government.Indeed it was JFK who allowed public workers to unionize and look at the can of worms it opened.Socialists go a long way back in gov.