I watched a 15 min report last night on may local TV station about the county losing 27 jobs in the dept. of social services. I found it interesting the amount of concern the media gave this and yet they spent 30 seconds announcing the closing of a manufacturing plant that employed 40 workers. It is an example of the way Americans worship ALL THINGS that have to do with the government and hate the private sector.
Personally...I'm thrilled that 27 bureaucrats will now be unemployed.
We'd all be better off if we could put a few zeros after the 27.
(03-18-2009 06:18 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: [ -> ]We'd all be better off if we could put a few zeros after the 27.
Fo, you're right. It's too bad that people don't care more about the factory. But, they've been conditioned to believe that nothing can be done if the gov't doesn't do it.
(03-18-2009 05:53 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: [ -> ]I watched a 15 min report last night on may local TV station about the county losing 27 jobs in the dept. of social services. I found it interesting the amount of concern the media gave this and yet they spent 30 seconds announcing the closing of a manufacturing plant that employed 40 workers. It is an example of the way Americans worship ALL THINGS that have to do with the government and hate the private sector.
Personally...I'm thrilled that 27 bureaucrats will now be unemployed.
May I share in this most JOYOUS OCCASION .....
And hey .... the 'Treasury' is looking for a few good crooks ....
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Where will they find employment next?
(03-18-2009 12:10 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote: [ -> ]Where will they find employment next?
That's the beauty of it.
Maybe we need term limits on ALL gov't employees. Then those people will have to keep the bureaucracy down.
Do you mean just all elected gov't employees or just ALL of them?
(03-18-2009 12:29 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote: [ -> ]Do you mean just all elected gov't employees or just ALL of them?
All of them. The non-elected ones are probably more dangerous.
I don't think that'll work. Federal government jobs are also worked by people living paycheck to paycheck.
(03-18-2009 12:45 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think that'll work. Federal government jobs are also worked by people living paycheck to paycheck.
To reduce the size of government....Give top level bureaucrats large bonus checks like AIG providing that they reduce the size of their bureaucracy by 25% each year. Government would shrink immediately.
The reason government grows is that bureaucrats are rewarded for making it larger by increased budgets. We need to give them incentives to shrink the size of their bureaucracies not grow them.
(03-18-2009 07:53 AM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ] (03-18-2009 06:18 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: [ -> ]We'd all be better off if we could put a few zeros after the 27.
Fo, you're right. It's too bad that people don't care more about the factory. But, they've been conditioned to believe that nothing can be done if the gov't doesn't do it.
Yes...Most viewers of that report never even stop and think that it is the factory and its workers that have been providing the income for those 27 bureaucrats.
In California 1 out of every 300 people is employed directly or indirectly by the state. There's 37,000,000 fruits and veggies out here - do the math.