As I get older I become increasingly aware of my own naiveté. I was raised to believe in the old fashion traits of honesty, integrity, industry, and perseverance, rules I have tried, not always successfully, to live by. While I was doing this, it now seems that my elected representatives have been blatantly ignoring these rules and setting themselves up at my expense!
When I was a teenager, government jobs were a “fallback” position, something you undertook if nothing else was available. Never did I realize that, with the help of unionization, these government jobs would mature into little pockets of self interest where nepotism, self-promotion, corruption, and greed would proliferate to produce windfalls of benefits!
Lifetime medical coverage after only minimal investiture, retirement income that often exceeds income from working years, severance packages that may include payment for unused “sick days” that often amount to tens of thousands of dollars! The list goes on and on but the results are the same, higher taxes for those of us who work in the private sector. From my own experience, I have learned that it is not unusual for government workers to promote each other just prior to retirement so that they can collect retirement benefits from a higher base position!
If you are in the private sector, you have watched your IRA’s dwindle with the stock market crash and stood by helplessly as the government denied you your social security “cost of living” raise. Not so for government employees. Even though their retirement funds are invested in the stock market also, they will not take the same cuts as you and I. The government will maintain their standard of living out of what the private sector has remaining, through higher taxation.
This situation is a travesty and will only be corrected by a complete market crash or a total devaluation of the dollar and I hope to see it come about. My government should work for me, not the other way around. I’m sick of this one-sided love affair. Government, get off my back!
As a side note: I see triple digit inflation on the horizon. The only way we will ever get out from under the national debt is to pay it off with cheap worthless dollars! Get rid of your dollars, buy a railroad or something.
2 comments:
Love your blog here .. SOOOO right on!! As I was growing up I was exposed to much conversation from my Dad and GrandDad about the evils of unions and that the very concept of them was anti-American and how if they were allowed to thrive and grow in America, there would be a dear price to pay...I can remember seeing numerous times the useless fools picketing my Dad's construction sites in North Sacramento as his entire operation and crew were non-union ..over the years, I have watched their warning & prophecies come true as the union powers became larger and more corrupt .. the Founders would never have agreed with the formation and use of unions beyond the protection of child-labor .. the free market/private sector would have been their best choice to sort things out over time and in the end .. thanks for your perspective..well done!! Wish there was something we could do about it..but the unions now are being used by the environmentalist/Marxist groups as fronts to achieve their agenda to take down America..Ann Coulter's book "Demonic" is a well researched & written historical account of the "mob" mentality..how it ties in perfectly for the use of corrupt union leadership to manipulate the foolish/ignorant membership .. XLNT read..you would enjoy..she traces "protests" & "mobs" through the centuries and how that strategy has been used by people with evil agendas to drum up the "emotional" psyche of the discontents ..
LuAnn Lee
XLNT perspective/evaluation of the state of affairs..of course, I grew up listening to conversations of Dad and my GrandDad speaking as to the evils of unions and how anti-American they were and if allowed to prosper they would in the end be a great destroyer to the American private sector and entreprenureal concept..not to mention the "protests" "mobs"..strategies used by the evildoers to use the ignorant membership drumming them up by emotion to assist in the achievement of their corrupt goals for power & money...a good analysis of the "mob mentality" and "protests" is found in Ann Coulter's newest book "Demonic"..she has researched and documented the history of all that down thru the centuries..great read..thanks for your blog..well done..and I totally agree..it's all unbelievably OUTRAGEOUS..
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