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A friend just told me he saw sign that read "The government is not your mommy." It's also not your guarantor of employment, at least it wouldn't be if there were any sanity in our economic policy.
We've recently seen President Barack Obama bragging about his $787 billion "economic stimulus bill" saving 25 jobs in Columbus, Ohio — that's $31 billion per cop, and in two years the money for their salaries will be gone and they'll probably get laid off anyway.
And while the flat-broke state of California has spent a month refusing to send income tax refunds to citizens that it overcharged last year, the state has added bureaucrats to the payroll.
My parents both work government jobs. Mom's the county treasurer and Dad's an equipment operator for the County Road Department. I understand that the government needs employees to provide some necessary services. And, frankly, I understand the benefits of working for a government employer that has an "unlimited" inflow of cash and never has to lay off workers.
But it is ultimately not government's job to ensure people are employed by making up jobs for them and putting them on the public payroll. Doing so creates an enormous class of employees who suck money out of the real economy while not creating anything useful. (No, welfare checks are not useful.)
Government debt and waste spending drag on production. Hefty taxes to pay government workers' wages rob business of the money to pay productive employees. It's a vicious circle that's all-to-often painted as necessary.
During recessions and times of slowed demand, real businesses are forced to cut their spending to avoid going broke. But governments think they aren't bound by the laws of reality.
And California's politicians, and federal bureaucrats, wonder how they got themselves so far into debt.
‘He got a pretty heavy dose of narcotics’
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Adam is back in the recovery room after 45 minutes. His eyes are barely
open and he doesn’t talk much at first.
11 months ago
2 comments:
Will - I would disagree that unemployment payments are wasteful. If someone loses their job, that leaves them little to no income to fulfill their obligations. In turn, this hurts the economy, they can't pay their rent/mortgage, other companies and citizens suffer as a result. Sometimes I feel that conservatives have no compassion for the plights of the common citizen. There have been many conservatives that have lost their jobs recently, they and their families are left on their own without health insurance and a sense of hope. You and I are middle class, we depend on this country's economy to provide our prosperity. Have a little compassion for the bystanders in the current economic crisis.
If you lose your job and are left without health insurance, and suffer a major injury, are you still going to proclaim the benefits of for-profit insurance when they deny your claims? Please, have some compassion for your fellow citizens.
I have nothing but compassion for my fellow citizens.
I am almost as angry that the government is stealing and wasting THEIR money, as I am that it is stealing and wasting mine.
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