The work ethic, is one of Americans’ best characteristics and assets. It comes from our Founders’ wanting no kings or absolute rulers to worship, and pay homage and taxes to, for some mythical ’protection.’ Americans, in days of yore, had to make it by themselves or fail by themselves, with no help from other than a charity, church, parents, or friends. The Constitution gives no permission for government to provide anything, other than a post office department, (which lost $8 billion last year) military, and a couple of other things. No subsidization of anything. In other words, a person had to have a job, business, or both, unless they were fortunate enough to inherit money from a deceased relative.
This brings about the subject of jobs. A job, is where one works for a salary. However, there are two kinds of jobs, and 99% of America doesn’t realize that there are two distinct kinds of jobs. Both pay salaries, but they are widely different.
The first kind of job, is a job where one works for a profit making store, factory, or other profit making entity. Profits, are a wonderful word! These jobs include ’hamburger flipping,’ being a nurse, factory worker, taxi driver, landscape worker, window washer, computer repairman, photographer, maid, cook, waiter, or any job which salary is paid from profits obtained from the employer. Tax dollars are not involved at all. Salaries come from profits of the employer, corporation, or business. No government money, and no tax dollars are involved. Salaries are used to pay bills, buy cars, food, or all of life’s expenses. The salary money is re-circulated, and spent on buying cars, groceries, paying electric bills, patronizing stores, businesses, and the like. As it re-circulates, profits from the businesses it was spent on, probably show enough of a profit to hire more employees and expand their profit making business. The nation and community is a healthy unit, with job expansion, business expansion, and prosperity.
The second kind of job, is a job whose salaries are paid with taxpayer money. This kind of job shows no profit, and salaries are not paid from profits. As opposed to jobs where salaries are paid from profits, jobs paid from taxes, have to show no efficiency, because there are no profits involved. Jobs whose salaries are paid from taxes, or taxes levied by governments at all levels, have no profit motive, and no entrepreneur, manager, or boss, checking to be sure a profit is being made. In the private sector, efficiency is very important. If the business doesn’t show a profit, salaries cannot be paid! Taxpayer paid salaries (bureaucracy) can’t show a profit or even be said to be efficient, because no profit is required to pay the salaries. As a result, AMTRAK loses billions, as does the Post Office, and the National Parks, just to name three government ’businesses,’ which supposedly pay salaries out of monies directly taken in or charged for services or admissions.
No government, at any level, can possibly be efficient or cost effective, for the simple reason that making a profit to pay expenses, is not in its formula. When private employers pay salaries, but are required to take huge taxes from salaries paid, obviously the taxes taken, are not re-circulated, but are dead-ended in D.C. for politicians to spend foolishly on bureaucracy, which they are delighted to do! The recipients of salaries which have been drastically reduced by payroll deductions, (confiscated by government), have obviously far less to spend in profit making businesses, and therefore the money is not re-circulated. Bureaucracy has two purposes, whether bureaucrats will admit it or not, and they are (1) attempt to prove that they are necessary, and (2) enlarge their base. When the base is enlarged, those in first, have obviously more seniority, and therefore will get higher salaries.
What bureaucracies do we actually need? I say very, very few. Take, as an example the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Bureau0, with a subdivision of the TSA, which regularly violates people’s bodies and does not allow a tube of toothpaste on an airplane. It was formed in 1966, and currently has a yearly budget of $72.5 billion dollars. Did plane, train, and car accidents happen before 1966? Did railroads, airlines, and truckers mind their safety before 1966? Have traffic accidents, airline crashes or railroad accidents decreased since 1966? If so, would they have decreased anyway, because the various operators have better more modern equipment? Do they have better equipment or rails because of profits earned, and re-plowed back into their plants? Has education gotten better with the Department of Education? Has America been improved by sucking the salaries dry from workers in profit making businesses or industries? Of course not! Did we have electricity before the Department of Energy, and its tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars spent?
On and on it can go, with local governments, state governments, and federal government draining us dry, and the federal government always spending far more than it takes in with taxation, thereby making us over $14 trillion currently in the red, and commitments for years ahead of close to $200 trillion dollars. Obviously, no matter how much crud is cut, and no matter who gets elected next year, the debts are unpayable other than with paper scrip. Therefore, for goodness sakes, get the hell out of dollars and into gold and silver. It’s amazing how timid and dollar habit formed, are people. They call and say, “Gee, I’ve never done this before, tell me about it, which we do gladly. But, isn’t it logical to get out of failing dollars, and into historic, beautiful, real money (gold and silver) which do not depend on government’s ’backing’ or guarantees? Gold and silver coins and bars have no titles or deeds, and are owned by whoever possesses them.
Do you think that the prices of lettuce, gasoline, tires, lumber, haircuts, or clothing will go down in dollar prices? Then why should the price of any tangible thing go down in dollar prices, since the presses are running night and day, destroying their value and purchasing power?