The Freeloader Class
President Obama is a peerless liar. He is so consistent that one only need know he is speaking to know he is lying. Take, for instance, his recent quote about what have become known as the Bush tax cuts. Prez says in part: “… the same tax cuts that have added hundreds of billions of dollars to our debt.”
There are two ways to look at the national debt. First: it is a result of spending more than is taken in. Second: it is a result of taking in less than is being spent. The fact is simple. The government takes in a certain amount of money. When it spends more than that, the debt grows.
Under Prez’s watch spending has jumped while the economy, which supplies the taxes, has cooled. Today most people realize higher tax rates are a brake on the economy and lower tax rates improve the economy. There is a simple reason for this. Government produces nothing. So in giving money to government, it is taken from those who produce and used by those who don’t. Those who argue that it goes back to the economy conveniently ignore the fact that the government employees who are paid to take the money, keep the money, read the often convoluted law determining how the money is to be distributed, read the applications for the money (checking to see if the applicants are subservient enough in attitude), decide who gets the money and finally write the checks, those employees produce nothing. But each takes a cut and gets to spend his cut as if he produced something of value. In fact, government employees are no different than people on welfare, unemployment, or Social Security. They’re taking from someone who does produce, doing nothing and getting paid for it. Realize the following is overly simplistic, but follow along anyway.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a government department, the government employs some 21 million people. This is out of a total of some 130 million workers of every sort. That is 16% of the labor force. If one subtracts the 4 million of them who work as police, military, firemen, prison guards, etc., we’ll drop the number by that amount. Which leaves about 17 million government workers doing little more than causing problems for those who work. SInce there are currently about 13 million unemployed and about 5 million of them collect unemployment checks, add those to the number of government employees. Then add the 5 million on welfare, and the 51 million on Social Security. The total is 78 million people getting paid by government to do nothing by the 114 million people who work.
As one can’t legitimately count the 1 million lawyers and paralegals, etc., as producing anything, subtract them. If you take out entertainers, 1.7 million, sales and office and administration, 36 million, there are only 74 million people who produce something of value, which the others consume, and that 74 million includes 8 million teachers. So 191 million people get checks from work or taxes but only 74 million are doing the work. THIRTY EIGHT percent of the people produce everything that the rest consume, and your politicians talk of raising taxes even more. They don’t think there are enough people getting something for nothing. To reiterate: politicians, in talking of raising taxes, are saying, in effect. that they think even more people should get paid to do nothing.
Certainly one can argue one way or another; if teachers and other workers, for example, are producing anything of value, or not. My point in keeping teachers as part of the supply economy is that they are necessary in the long run. Lawyers and entertainers, while convenient, are not. Sales is important but not vital. Office and administration is often only a function of government or self-serving. (I should know)
The point is there are certain jobs in the economy which produce the material things we consume. They produce the housing, automobiles, clothing, food and various oddments which make our lives the way they are. There are others who, for all intents and purposes, are freeloaders. Government employees, politicians and tort lawyers are interchangeable in this group of freeloaders. They use the government to take from those who produce to line their own pockets. In so doing they rationalize why their jobs are important; why they are legitimate. For instance, in a political science class at UNCC I once had occasion to argue with a young tort lawyer. He was rationalizing that he did his job to help his clients. Before we were finished he had admitted he sued companies for the money. No surprise there.
But back to the main line of thought. At this point the 51 million people who collect Social Security checks are using government to take from the 74 million who work. As do those on welfare and unemployment. Concurrently, those who work for government try to convince us that they aren’t paid enough. Paid enough to do what? And the leader of the freeloaders, Obama, wants to take more from those who produce to give to those who don’t. He wants to raise taxes and uses the excuse of saying taxes aren’t high enough, which is the reason for the deficit. He’s already paying 78 million people for doing nothing, and that doesn’t count the pork barrel project recipients.
How much more does Obama need? The answer is none. He needs less because all he’s using your taxes for is to buy votes for his next election. He blends in too well in DC. The Tea Parties have the right idea. The freeloaders, having nothing legitimate to attack them about, call them racist. Is there a word Tea Party members can use to express their automatic distaste for government free loaders?
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