Hey, Kids! All Government Employees are Apparently Teachers, Police, or Firefighters
By Barry Rubin
[Warning: sarcasm and irony are employed as devices in the following article.]
It
is really wonderful how every day I learn something new. Now I've
learned that all government employees can be divided into three
professions: teachers, police, and firefighters. As to who busts people
for drinking from excessively large cups in New York City or has the
wrong sandwich in their school lunches of North Carolina; who protects
the snail darters and makes sure that America doesn't solve its problems
of energy pricing and supply by new methods and pumping oil in the Gulf
of Mexico; who enforces the 8000 or so pages of federal regulations;
and who goes over all those forms people fill out and passes around all
that paper and inhabits the EPA, departments of education, housing and
human services, etc., etc., etc? Your guess is as good as mine.
There are thus two essential points to remember:
1. Government bureaucrats--be they on the federal, state, or local level--don't exist.
2.
If they do exist they can never be laid off. Every single one of them
is essential. Only teachers, firefighters, and police can be laid off if
there isn't enough government income. Get rid of the teachers and keep
the bureaucrats who enforce increasingly more complex, restrictive, and
intrusive regulations!
Oh,
and remember that it's better to run out of money and fire teachers
than to ask them to contribute a percentage point or two of their
salaries to their own pensions so that nobody need be fired (see,
Wisconsin).
What
nonsense and rubbish forms the basis for the way the currently dominant
elite argues--and its tame mass media report--public issues nowadays!
And
consider how the income of those Wisconsin state employees has
dramatically risen now that they don't have to pay union dues but can
pocket the money themselves rather than donate it involuntarily to
partisan political campaigns that are ultimately against their own
interests.
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