Power-hungry, so-called "progressives" have brought us to the state of affairs described over 200 years ago by Thomas Jefferson.
Posted on 12/08/2012 7:20:19 AM PST by ecomcon
Hey, I’ve got a neat idea — why don’t we just keep growing the government, until we all can have government jobs? That can work, right?
Seventy-three percent of the new civilian jobs created in the United States over the last five months are in government, according to official data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. …
In the same five-month period since June, the number of people employed by government increased by 621,000 to 20,559,000. These 621,000 new government jobs created in the last five months equal 73.3 percent of the 847,000 new jobs created overall.
Reminder that all government jobs are not revenue creating but blood suckers on the tax payers. This December jobs for the private sector were probably part time for the Holiday and will be terminated in mid January, as customary.
That’s the PLAN..., Maxine Waters on Socializing the Oil Companies...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJAkR_6tKQ
why don’t we just keep growing the government, until we all can have government jobs?
Well: That’s pretty much what Socialism is, and we are going at it full tilt.
Yes, it is "progressives" who have taken America back to the Old World ideas which preceded the great experiment in ordered liberty, bringing America to its knees before the world under a regime which pretends to "take care of" us.
Thomas Jefferson warned Americans:
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
Note Jefferson's very last thought here. He declares that when government taxing and debt have reached certain levels, in order for individuals to survive, then their chosen "employment" becomes "hiring ourselves to rivet their (the government's) chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." Might that account for why it is government employment levels which have risen at such great rates in the past 2 years?
Inasmuch as government creates no wealth and has no money, the pay for every job in government must first come out of the pockets of hardworking citizens in the private sector or be borrowed (to be paid back eventually from the pockets of future generations).
Ahhh, guess that's what you call "redistributing" wealth! In Jefferson's words, it's called "rivet(ing) chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."
This adequately and accurately describes the bureaucratic 'branch'/trunk of our federal government.
JOB CUTS
December 8 , 2012
RailAmerica Jacksonville Facility - up to 50
GREE Mobile Games - 25
Bostwick Laboratories Inc. - 90 to 154
Southwest Windpower - 14+
CyberOptics Corp - Completed 20 Layoffs
Bombardier Transportation facility - Pending Layoffs
City of Miami Oklahoma - 50
CC Media Holdings Inc - Some Layoffs This Week
Vann’s Acquisition LLC - 17
2 San Bernardino Hospitals CA - Layoffs Coming
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals - 1/2 of Workforce
Perry County Coal Corporation - 156
Kennedy Space Center - 100
Alliance Bank / NBT Bank Merger - May = 100 Layoffs in NY
How many direct & indirect voters apply to those 621,000 NEW jobs?
No wonder Romney lost—Obama was buying votes in every way possible.
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