Alright Mr. (or Ms.) Politico, isn't it enough that I have to pay you to sit mindlessly fouling up the air around your seat at the office? Are you not satisfied enough soaking me with the bill to keep your lights on and Nine Lives in little Fluffy's bowl? I pay a big chunk out of my salary as an underpaid health care worker, just to pony up for your kid's college tuition. I am fleeced to near starvation levels so you'd think that was enough.
Not a chance, you're a public official and by default it is assumed (at least among really stupid people) that you just have to know everything. You had the smarts to be able to con enough people to vote for you so obviously you must know your stuff. The roots of the Einstein family tree must be getting their water straight from your backyard garden hose. You sir or madam, must be literally oozing genius, the problem is both that my wallet and my liberty take a pounding when it all drips on me.
Your grand idea to "reform" health care, bailout any fool that is equally lousy in business as you were, not fix the roads, or make a mockery of freedom and justice proves to anyone that knows better, you have no real business savvy. Just where's your fantastic achievement in the real world outside your cushy little job that steals from my labor?
Here's my take on it...you can't compete in the private sector. You lack the honesty to actually tell your constituents that you don't have the goods and never did. There's no individual liability against you personally for failure to meet the needs of those you claim to serve. Your "company" you run now is government, and you set it up where you literally can't possibly "go out of business", no matter how badly you and your ilk foul up the works.
If you could solve the so-called "health care crisis", you'd have already provided an even slightly successful model and opened your own insurance company just to show us all how it is done. You could do so in any other endeavor if you knew how, yet you simply don't, do you brainiac?
You got into politics in the first place because you were unable to successfully make a go of it among us working stiffs. That you were unable to hide your severe lack of business acumen from a man of ordinary intellect such as me, simply proves that you're not so smart as you think.
Do the decent thing and close up your lousy government shop for good, we both know it doesn't work. Then go get a real job, you bum.
With Liberty,
Dan Steward
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Reader Comments:
Posted By: Master C
Date: 2009-01-27 08:41:31
Dan,
As usual, you misperceive the role of the civil servant and elected official in ways that only the very naive or poorly-informed might do.
There is a whole different world of customer contact, education, training, and job stamina that is required in the public sector that is separate from, and unrelated to, private sector jobs.
When you go to the Secretary of State's office, do you ever look at the people waiting to be taken care of rather than just those behind the counters? They are often poor, uneducated, don't speak our language very well; they are very old, sometimes very sick, sometimes bringing little children with them. They have to get a driver's license renewed, or have license plates transferred, get a car purchase registered, or many other mundane but time-consuming things taken care of.
This isn't a private sector business where you shop, pay your bill and leave, it is a place where people have to be helped and handled in an orderly way. The same with Social Security, Family Services, the unemployment office, Food Stamps, Welfare, Medicare and Medicaid. These are bureaucracies that keep order in the LOWER LEVELS of society. They help people who often couldn't find their way through life without assistance. And, the bureaucrats who do that face special problems and difficulties that the impatient, the uncaring, or those who worry about waste, sloth, and incompetence could never cope with.
Of course, YOUR whole approach to this sector is that you RESENT them, you would like to ELIMINATE them, and you DISDAIN their very dependent existence. That's understandable because you can probably take care of yourself and your family. But, have one of your children incapacitated by a drunk driver who turns them instantly into a quadraplegic, or have your wife get an aneurism that paralyzes her, or see what happens if you have a stroke or a back injury or a gunshot or a driving accident that prevents you from going to work. Where would you be then? Or what if you go blind, or get released from prison and can't find work?
There are many hundreds of thousands of people, probably millions, who face those situations every day.
Not only that, but even the politicians you belittle and criticize, have to unravel difficult political impasses between opposing groups, have to answer for things that the police department did or didn't do, have to explain why the hurricane victims didn't get faster service, or whatever.
The entire PUBLIC SECTOR is so different from the PRIVATE SECTOR that usually there isn't even an intermingling of the two. And, if you don't think that there are MANY private sector businesses who are so TOP HEAVY with unnecessary vice presidents and executive vice presidents and sr. executive vice presidents, and overpaid "board" members who pull in astounding salaries for just meeting every now and then, then you don't know much about the hierarchy of corporate America. Do you think the auto makers or the banks or Wall Street ~ all of which are PRIVATE businesses ~ don't have large staffs of overpaid lawyers, vice presidents, and managers?
Dan, you just have an instant and unremitting distaste for ANYONE in the PUBLIC SECTOR which so distorts your assessment of them that the criticisms you offer are the same criticisms that could be brought against the overstaffed hierarchies of corporate America.
Although, anyone as DISDAINFUL of those who help the poor, the disabled, the destitute, or those who have been victimized by criminals, bad drivers, or natural disasters, fire, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. hasn't experienced those things for themselves. If you ever do, you'll be thankful that there are people to help you rather than telling you that you're on your own and there's nothing that can be done.
Master C
Posted By: daddysteve
Date: 2009-01-27 18:40:39
I've been on welfare. Welfare SUCKS. People want good jobs. When we were losing jobs in the 70's and 80's , taxes and spending should have been cut to whatever level needed to support industry. But that's not what government does. It only gets bigger. Inflation forces the unions into an adversarial relationship with the employer poisoning what should otherwise be symbiotic. Do you think, Master C, that government really supports the downtrodden? A few handouts and we're all good to go, right? Enough cheap credit and it's prosperity for the masses, right? Cheerleading the fact that the govt' provides help to the desperate in a free society begs the question of why there are so many desperate in this supposedly free society? Moral of the story- the vast majority want jobs not welfare and your system isn't providing it.