[LuisBasco]

Your comments are as good as the article you posted.

One thing the American electorate had better get wise to is that government creates no jobs except government jobs.

With all levels (city, county, state, federal) of government increasing their taxation to satisfy a natural greed for more staffers and boondoggles I don't see where we really have a chance.

Americans look the other way while all this mugging by government is happening to them. They don't look at the phone and utility bills to see what a chunk is removed by local and federal government, and until they wise up to the ever increasing sales taxes being collected for any expenditure, they'll be in the same boat as California where the base sales tax percentage is going to be 7.5%.

Our levels of elected government work overtime to prove that over the long haul representative government commits suicide when the people have indeed had quite enough.

[DH]

One thing the American electorate had better get wise to is that government creates no jobs except government jobs.

You are basically correct but did not add that the creation of jobs created by the government to the private sector are many, many times more.  Jobs that are created by government regulations, decrees and public services.  Jobs that would  not exist except for the fact that through government regulations and red tape, they exist.  

Just look around and see how many "government made jobs" are in your local area.  These are jobs or businesses either paid directly by government checks (local, state and federal) or are in business soley due to governmental regulations and laws.

It just makes me sick every time I make that assessment!

[ReleaseTheHounds]

LB: I like your logic and response. Unfortunately, too few Americans have any understanding of how our (or any) economy "works" and how government policy impacts the workings of that economy. Very sad to see the uninformed acceptance by too many of our fellow citizens of "government programs" and "government solutions" to everything when it so often is completely counterproductive and inhibiting on the growth engine of our country.