On Friday, Washington legislators agreed on a compromise which for now anyway, diverted a shutdown of the government. However they continue to find it unnecessary to get to the core of our fiscal issues. Republicans are still whining about spending, and meanwhile you have Democrats who want planned parenthood. Still no effective talks about reducing government and cutting spending in the public sector.
If that doesn't sound surprising to anyone, you may be shocked to realize that since the financial collapse of 2008, there have been little cuts on the local, state and federal government levels. Today more than 22 million Americans across the country are employees of the government. In other words, more people are working in public sector jobs with a largely inflated pension fund that tax payers are on the hook for, than people working in farming, manufacturing, forestry or technology industries combined.
People really are depending on the government.
And despite the fact that our yearly deficit is $1.4 trillion and our national debt is likely to exceed $15 trillion in just a few months, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is pleading with Congress to raise the debt ceiling limit, so we can borrow more money from China, without any consideration at all, to simply cut back the bloated bureaucracy of government.
Amid our financial crisis, the government continues to keep hiring. Yesterday, Fox Business released the most recent job openings in the federal government:
- $115,000 a year, to maintain a Facebook page
- $150,000 to $180,000 a year for equal opportunity compliance officers
- $100,000 to $150,000 for speechwriters
How embarrassing when millions of private sector jobs have vanished, yet spending money on positions like this are deemed necessary.
Another fact often overlooked is when the federal government comes out with its ridiculous numbers on the unemployment rate going down, most of the jobs being filled are usually in the public sector. Secondly, they tend to only count people receiving unemployment benefits after they had been laid off, as being legitimately unemployed. When people stop receiving the benefits, I guess the idiocies in the state and federal governments believe that those people somehow went back to work?
President Obama continues to spew this nonsense about becoming fiscally responsible.
When you're the President, or a Senator or a Congressman, and you're not smart enough to write your own damn speech and you end up paying a six figure salary to someone just to write it for you... maybe that is an indicator you should just shut the hell up.
Would that help cut cost on the federal level?
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