Saturday, July 18, 2009
The REAL purpose of Government
I've heard it said that the First purpose of Government, maybe the only legitimate purpose of Government is to keep us safe. It's not to pass health-care reform, God knows it's not to take over the auto industry, it has absolutely nothing to do with teaching kids about sex. It's not paying for abortions or funding some aspiring artist who may be controversial, it's not any of this and yet in their primary purpose the Government fails miserably. OK we've done a better job with terrorism since 9-11 but just the same the average citizen should be safe from violent crime in general ya think? So why is it the chief role of Government to keep us safe? so we can enjoy our God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that's why. I know I'm speaking as an old fart here, soapie and I be geezers with our walking sticks who aren't with the times but if the Government can't keep you safe on the street or in your home or at the airport or on vacation here or abroad WHAT THE HELL GOOD IS IT?!? OK good I now have government-run health care but I've just been shot, well whoop-dee-doo!! OK so just to review the real purpose of Government is what again?
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Don't forget this elite group has excluded themselves from this atrocity they are dumping on US.
ReplyDeletethey probably excluded themselves because they want to kill off the old people and they would be first in line.
And don't forget that no matter how little time spent in Congress, they are covered for the rest of their lives!
Here is the problem. Mandating benefits to employees imposes costs on employment. The would-be worker bears the cost. It makes the worker more expensive to hire. The employer has to pay not only a salary but also a benefit. If you make it more expensive to hire people, fewer people will be hired.
ReplyDeleteIt is no different from eggs at the supermarket. If they are $2 each, you will purchase fewer of them – you will economize. This is nothing but the law of demand: consumers will demand less of a good at a higher price than a lower price. A salary plus benefits amounts to a price that the employer must pay to purchase the work of a laborer. At a higher price, less work will be purchased by the employer.
That means that requiring employers to provide health benefits to employees and potential employees will make the job situation today worse not better. It will intensify the current problem that people want to work more but are having a hard time getting employers to hire them.
The answer is the same in every recessionary environment. The price of labor must fall in order for the surplus of workers to be absorbed into the market. Raising the cost of hiring only further entrenches the problem and creates new forms of unemployment.
’ve been proud of my country every single day of my life. So proud, in fact, that I volunteered to go fight and possibly die for my country. The day I enlisted in the US Army is the single proudest moment in my life. Perhaps if Michele or Barack Obama had ever done anything in service of their country, they would feel the same way.
Instead I could think of thousands upon thousands of other examples of when I was bursting with pride about my country. I’m sure most of you could too. I’ll bet the most cynical and jaded amongst you have moments in your life where you were immensely proud of our country.
But not Michelle. It took Obamasiah and the cult of Obamania to really make her proud to be an American.
This illustrates the kind of people the Obama’s are and that America will regret the day that this blow hard became president.
The irony Z is that while the Federal Government is suppose to be protecting us from threats both foreign and domestic, they themselves are becoming the greater threat.
ReplyDeleteMichael Wolke: "Here is the problem. Mandating benefits to employees imposes costs on employment."
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you in the sense there are too many cheap bosses out there. I disagree with you in the sense that it would be a nice thing for more employers to give their workers health insurance. But I AGREE totally with you that mandating these things is just plain wrong so in this sense I don't think it's an overstatement to say Obama leans Marxist. I've worked for hellholes before, nothing much the government should do about it IMO. My solution? I left.
I have to agree with you there soapie although we risk Napolitano's wrath in saying so. When you get down to the Basics government doesn't exist to do a hell of alot, simply protect us and we'll do the rest.
ReplyDeleteIt's all right in the Constitution of the United States, read that, or read The 5000 Year Leap.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading lately about ObamaCare, that's a real scary piece of work!
ReplyDeleteYou are reading about it, but are the Congress members reading it, or are they just voting on things without fully reading it, THAT is what is most scary about it all.
ReplyDeleteI think it's like your DVD player manual, nobody's really reading the stuff.
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