Monday, October 12, 2009
- This Stuff Never Gets Old
Who could have ever possibly imagined how much fun it would be to watch an elderly Jewish man teach people about basic economics. What's really amazing is that even in 1978, this diminutive professor so well understood what is sure to become the most fundamental issue of our day. That the parasitic classes (including those in government) can no longer reward themselves so generously from the coffers of the productive classes in the private sector, unless we're prepared to watch the whole thing burn.
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This describes one of the reasons that I actually feel good about my government job. The first is that I support one of the few government tasks actually listed in the Constitution: National Defense. The second is that, within that category, I actually have a visual product from what I do. Aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines come into the shipyard in need of repair, and leave ready for war again.
Granted, having an end product also helps us have a means to evaluate our cost performance. On one hand, we are a government agency, so I know there has to be a lot of room for improvement. On the other hand, despite that, we still drastically outperform the only private shipyard that repairs nuclear aircraft carriers.
You "do" something. You have an end product. You make something other than "more rules for others". But you also know better than most how many people out there in government don't actually do anything.
The one thing that a government is supposed to do those tasks which involve the use of force as a tool of persuasion. "The arbiter of force" is the best description I've ever heard for the 'proper' role of government in a free society. (I'll give you three guesses who said it.)
Law enforcement and national defense both squarely into that description, and I therefore exclude them. You are no more parasitic in my view than a policeman or a judge.
But in my perfect world, we can get rid of the entire department of education, and HHS (if they still call it that.) And then we can begin whacking at some of more directly redistributive programs as well.
Not that it matters... it will all collapse under it's own weight way before I'd have a chance to make the cuts I'd like to see.
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