NO SITUATION SO DIRE….
NO SITUATION IS SO DIRE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT CANNOT MAKE IT WORSE!
“Giving Money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys”. P.J. O’Rourke – Civil Libertarian
Stop and think about it. Name me any government department or program that is both cost effective and produces promised results in a timely way.
The Post Office? They run deficits in the Billions every year. The politicians and unions won’t let them do the things needed to end the red ink.
The “War on Poverty”? Since introduced by Lyndon Johnson the government has spent Trillions of Dollars on a program that has increased the percentage of our population living in poverty to a level greater than when the program started. Most/many of the recipients living on anti-poverty programs feel angry, frustrated and without hope. This noble sounding program has also seriously damaged the American Family. A large portion of its annual budget is spent on a vast, bloated unionized bureaucracy which provides lifelong salaries, pensions and healthcare for its government employees while doing little to help the “poor”.
Public School System? Well intentioned teachers find themselves trapped in a system designed to promote political correctness over education and whose main goal is more about empire building and power by its Union Leaders than educating the nations youth. A large portion of the nations education budget is spent on bureaucracy and administrative costs. In the meantime we are producing “graduates” who often cannot read or fill out an employment application.
The Military? Not very cost efficient but the most powerful military in the world yet the politicians and current regime in charge micromanage our Military and will not let them do the things needed to win over our enemies. Instead, our “government” spent Five Hundred Million Dollars training five (or was it seven) Syrian “Freedom Fighters” who have all since disappeared. Poof!
Social Security, Bankrupt. Medicare, Bankrupt. Amtrak, Deficits. I could go on and on.
It is not so much that government is inherently evil but that it is just inept, clumsy and more interested in a political agenda and power than it is in providing common sense workable solutions for its people.
Let us consider our governments ability to manage the nations “family” budget.
As a nation we are soon to be Twenty Trillion Dollars in debt. When interest rates return to what is more customary and usual, say 5%, it will take One Trillion Dollars a year just to pay the interest on the nations debt. With anticipated 2015 government revenues of 3.18 Trillion Dollars it would take over 30 percent of the governments income just to pay the interest on the debt. If interest rates were to go to 7.5% or 10% or more (the Jimmy Carter years) – you do the math.
Have we already gone over the cliff?
Bob Bandy
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