The New American Dream is to Work for Government

Manufacturing Left Because of the Big Bad U.S. Government

Dick Destiny - “Surveys of college graduates are finding that more and more of our top minds want to work for the government,” the man writes. “Why? Because in recent years only government agencies have been hiring …”

Everyone’s going for the security. They don’t want to work for the private sector where they can be fired because it’s cheaper to use foreign labor — except for security work or weapons manufacturing.

In any case, we ran this economist’s graph on hiring by the government a number of weeks ago:

For the past eleven years the vast majority of federal government hiring has been in homeland security.

The WSJ piece, which I suppose you should read, does not make any mention that American big business — like GE — is fine with making weapons with US workers, because the government and, by extension the taxpayer, pays for it. There’s no talk of firing ‘underperformers’.

However, manufacturing of non-military goods by the same company? That’s another matter entirely.

“Sadly, we could end up with a generation of Americans who want to work at the Department of Motor Vehicles,” concludes Moore.

It’s their cowardliness, he implies. They don’t want to work for the private sector, which isn’t hiring anyone except those who are willing to work at jobs that don’t earn a middle class living, because they might get fired.

It’s an unusual argument. But it fits with the Ayn Rand-ian thing that you’re a weakling if you can’t make it as a millionaire or billionaire in corporate America. Ted Nugent spouts it all the time. The fired, the underemployed, government workers, unionized teachers — every manjack of them inferior.

Socialism, Communism and the New World Order

Freedom and initiative are being replaced by ever higher taxation, regulation and centralization of power in Washington. Our economy is now stagnant and our standard of living is declining. Each year government takes a bigger share of our earnings, employs more and more of our people, enacts more rules that strangle our economy, and controls more and more of our lives. In the enjoyment of plenty, have Americans lost the memory of freedom? When citizens are willing to sacrifice their liberty for security, they will have neither liberty nor security and will soon find themselves living under tyranny. [Ellen Sauerbrey, The Spark That Has Triggered Rebellion, American Thinker, September 13, 2009]

We have become a nation of consumers rather than producers, and now the only true source of middle class is government employment. Yet the government does not create a traditional sellable product and thus produces no revenue outside of what it collects from taxpayers. So how can America survive without producers? And how can America produce anything when manufacturing jobs are being shipped overseas?

Perhaps it's time to nationalize everything so that Socialism doesn't just benefit the 25% employed directly by the public sector. This is what the financial oligarchy have in mind with the corporate state. However, once this happens, no one will have the good life except the elitists. Take Cuba, for example:

According to Barack Obama's Tax Plan:

When government mandates prices that are artificially low, it causes a transfer of wealth out of the country. To see evidence of this, simply look at the communist nation of Cuba.

Though Cuba is communist, the difference between socialism and communism is that a socialist society is only about economic monopolies, whereas a communist society is about economic and political monopolies.

Since the communist revolution in Cuba in 1959, the country has seen a progressive economic downturn. Without the influx of money from the Soviet Union to bolster its economic, it has seen class equality achieved — everyone in Cuba (except for the ruling class) is poor.

Here is what Socialism has brought to Cuba:

• Production is run by the government and the labor force is run by the state.


• Capital investment is restricted and requires approval by the government. This ensures a lack of private sector jobs and economic competition.


• The Cuban government sets most prices and rations goods to citizens.


• Any firm wishing to hire a Cuban must pay the Cuban government, which in turn will pay the company’s employee in Cuban pesos.


• Preferential treatment exists for the ruling class of the Communist party, which get luxuries average citizens do not, such as access to transportation, work, housing, university education and better health care.


• Starting in the late 1980s the Soviet subsidies for Cuba’s state-run economy started to dry up. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba depended on Moscow for sheltered markets for its exports and substantial aid. The Soviets had been paying above-market prices for Cuban sugar, while providing Cuba with petroleum at below-market prices. The removal of these subsidies sent the Cuban economy into a rapid depression known in Cuba as the Special Period.


• Since 1959 Cuba has experienced slow growth in its Gross Domestic Product relative to other countries that were in a similar situation in the 1950s, stagnant trade, and amassed a significant debt amounting to some $16.62 billion in convertible currency and $15 to $20 billion dollars with Russia


• Cuban citizens themselves have experienced a decrease in their caloric intake and a shortage of housing since 1959.


• For some time now, Cuba has been experiencing a housing shortage because of the state’s failure to keep pace with increasing demand.


• Food is rationed to Cuban citizens and state salaries are failing to meet personal needs of its citizens under the state rationing system chronically plagued with shortages.


• As the variety and amount of rationed goods available declined, Cubans increasingly turned to the black market to obtain basic food, clothing, household, and health amenities.


• There have been mass exoduses of Cuban citizens to the United States in an effort to achieve economic prosperity, causing a decline in productivity, innovation, and wealth creation in Cuba — not to mention a shrinking work-force, which contributes to the government’s failure to meet production demand.

And this is just the most recent example of how a government-run monopoly can wreck the economy. Keep in mind, this all started when Castro had his government seize the wealth and property of his country’s rich and wealthy, and took over the utilities and financial institutions.

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• Bottleneck at Patent Office is Leading Indicator of U.S. Economy  
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• Human Trafficking in America's Private Prisons
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