“Government jobs leech resources from the private sector.”
Government jobs are funded by resources from the private sector, but I don’t agree with your characterization that it’s leeching. Leeching implies something negative. Government is absolutely essential to a healthy private sector. I’m not saying government can’t grow too big and act like a leech, but it’s not true in all cases.
That’s why governments evolved in the first place. People wanted government. They chose it to protect the community, and even a monarch had certain obligations to the people in return for being able to rule over them.
I do agree this is a very relevant point given the excess of government in America, but I’m only using it to point out that government isn’t really a necessary evil as some claim. Man, the so-called noble savage, didn’t exist in some perfect world before governments came along and ruined everything.
No. I don’t agree that Governor Perry didn’t actually create jobs in Texas. If Governor Perry did something that encouraged private businesses to relocate to Texas, he deserves at least some credit for creating those jobs. I agree he didn’t personally create the work, but his actions certainly encouraged job creation.
Why bother even trying to separate the two? Are you fearful of saying government did something good? No insult intended, I just think some people on the right don’t want to give government credit where credit is due.
Government is a necessary evil. It is evil because we are only human and it is too much our nature to exploit power of the type that government by its coercive power embodies.
As I said, of course we need some government, but we’ve had if anything too much government for so long now that too little government is hardly a concern.
Instead, we labor under federal, state, and local behemoths that are overfed leeches sucking off the energy from the dwindling private sector.
If Perry has lured a company from another state, he hasn’t created any jobs, though he may have contributed to some relocations and the replacement of jobs for some people with jobs for others. Keeping taxes lower than elsewhere is a good thing, but it doesn’t create jobs. Only those within that geography who actually put together and get up and running a business create jobs.
Why don’t you want to give those working in the private sector their due?