“Public employees maintain that they are underpaid relative to equally qualified private-sector workers, yet they are deathly afraid of competitive bidding for government services.”
Only someone clueless enough to think that a degree in Political Science, Women’s Issues, or Black Studies constitute an education would believe that.
Well, the kicker is that in Kentucky Yum Brands—Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers—are lobbying the Governor to allow fast food restaurants to accept food stamps. That complete BS!
Here’s a link to the story: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110402/NEWS01/304030028/Yum-Brands-lobbies-Kentucky-OK-food-stamps-restaurant-use?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CHome
If you put the government payroll with the welfare roll, over 53 million people produce nothing and take it all.
Well, no surprise here since every morning you are waking up to a Chinese alarm clock, puting on Indian shirt and Malasian boots, driving hecho in Mexico car burning Venezuelian gas spending 8 hours to look for a job and still wondering where is it all gone.
Having been one myself (military, then State and/or Federal gigs) it’s really hard to impress upon the LibTards that I work with that GOVERNMENT produces NOTHING and consumes EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES.
They just can’t wrap their little pea-sized brains around that concept.
Fix the roads, haul my trash, give me cops, firemen, EMTs, a PART-TIME state legislature with TERM LIMITS and a public library (or private, for that matter) and that’s ALL I need from Mother Government.
But, alas, we’ll never see any of that ever again. *SIGH*
This article sums up the Number 1 reason why I’m a conservative. I look on with horror—no hyperbole—as this once proud, self-sufficient nation turns into a nation of children who want someone else to pay their way.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another — Voltaire
“Who is John Galt?”