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Posted on 09/05/2009 8:09:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stable employment is increasingly hard to find these days. But there is one industry that, despite a sharp decrease in revenue, is on a hiring binge. This from bizjournals.com:
Federal agencies will add more than 270,000 employees during the next three years, according to a report from the Partnership for Public Service.
The total projected hiring for “mission-critical jobs” is expected to jump more than 40 percent during fiscal 2010 to 2012 from the previous three years.
I’m always curious to know what federal bureaucrats consider “mission critical” (their own jobs top the list I suppose). The Cash for Clunkers program provides a clue. The program forced the Transportation Department to triple the staffers designated for paperwork. So while some of the more than quarter million new government employees will work in Homeland Security or the CIA, a huge portion of the new hires will merely add to the world’s largest army of paper pushers.
As all of private America tightens its belt to make it through difficult times, the federal government will roll on, merrily oblivious to the world around it.
Oh, and did I mention federal employees average double the wage of private workers?
in ayersworld, we are all minions of the gummit. His boy TOTUS-reader is seeing to it.
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The federal government has proved the concept that a computer is a labor saving device is total BS.
California is adding more “workers” in the midst of the biggest state financial meltdown in our nation’s history. In Santa Clara County, SEIU “workers” can retire at 55 with 30 years service and haul down $114k per year until they die! If you make it to 80, you would have died a multimillionaire in retirement alone!
And all of this is off the exclusive sweat of private sector employees who produce ALL the wealth of the nation. Government confiscates and consumes wealth and can never create it.
My word, I hope so. I can’t find a job in the private sector so i hope to gracious that I can get a federal job, with those great benefits and good job security. If I had a private-sector job in the offing I might feel differently, but right now, prostituting myself to the government is my best chance to feed myself and my young son.
The moderators have no innate sense of humor, I see.
I was joking.
Hasn’t that been the plan all along???
HOGS
It seems that an area in Arkansas was plagued by a
particularly aggressive and voracious roving band of wild
hogs for many years and, although the local residents were
thoroughly disgusted over the destroyed crops, injured
domestic livestock, etc., their attempts to destroy or
capture the hogs had met with complete failure.
One day a stranger stopped at the local hardware store,
purchased some tools and grain, asked how to get to the last
reported location of the porcine marauders and boasted that
he would capture them and claim the large bounty the locals
had offered. Those who heard his boast laughed as he went
out the door and boarded his wagon.
Two weeks later, the stranger arrived back in town with
the entire herd trussed and squealing in the back of his
wagon. Amazed and incredulous, the townspeople asked how
he’d done it. He told this story:
“I located a clearing near where I was told the hogs
might be and set out a large pile of grain. At the same
time, I began erecting a fence just beyond the edge of the
clearing.
“The hogs discovered the grain on the third day. At
first, they sniffed around the edge of the clearing,
nervously darting into the woods at the slightest sign or
sound of danger. Then the younger, less experienced ones
became bolder to the point of approaching the edge of the
pile, grabbing a few kernels and dashing into the trees.
“After several hours of this, the young hogs began
feeding in earnest — no longer darting away with those few
kernels. Seeing this, the older hogs soon began shoving the
young ones aside in what became a veritable feeding frenzy.
The grain was soon gone.
“They returned the next day at daybreak to a fresh,
larger pile of grain. They displayed little fear as they
walked right up to it. They returned the next day, and the
next, and the day after that, all the while growing bolder
and showing less and less fear. By the 10th day, they had
completely stopped foraging in the surrounding fields.
“All the while, I was building the fence — a corral,
really — during the times when they were absent. Soon,
however, I was able to work while they were feeding.
“Yesterday morning, while they fed, I closed the gate.
They didn’t even try to escape.
“I’ve been capturing critters this way for years and it
always works. Why? Well I learned a long, long time ago
that there isn’t a creature on the face of the earth I
cannot capture — ONCE I HAVE IT DEPENDENT ON ME FOR ITS SUPPORT OR SURVIVAL!
Dick Bachert (richard.bachert@comcast.net) 4/4/82
Let me know if you want to help us tear down OUR corral
(while there may still be time)
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You will like this video:
Government is not an industry it is a parasite.
Wow!! Isn’t that great? What an outstanding piece of work and a tremendous message.
Washington observed that it is "like fire," with the ability to consume. The Founders' vision of a government for a free and prosperous society was one with "benign" (Madison) influence, encouraging individual initiative, responsibility, and accountability, and protecting the people's rights, while those in positions of power in government were strictly limited within the powers granted to them by their bosses, "We, the People."
That is how America went from colonies using the crude tools of the past to becoming the literal breadbasket for the world and a place where millions of oppressed from other lands found refuge and opportunity. The "government" didn't do it. The individual citizens did it, because they were left free to think and do for themselves and their neighbors, Adam Smith's theory about the causes of the "wealth of nations" was realized.
“My word, I hope so. I can’t find a job in the private sector so i hope to gracious that I can get a federal job, with those great benefits and good job security.”
Personally I don’t consider government employees part of the human race!
Since I live in the DC area and many friends and neighbors are hard-working people who happen to work for the federal government, I must consider that they are not only human, but exemplary humans whose ranks I’d love to join.
What a great story!
It reminds me of a poster I saw at one of the tea party rallies made by a kid:
There’s cheese in a mousetrap!
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