RE: Jack Linden column about Government Jobs
Local police and state employees are considered jobs because by your definition there is a person who is employed by some entity. You however forget to mention that all of those jobs are paid for by taxes. If we want more police or more training for our state workers we have to have more taxes. It is a reoccurring theme that state, local as well as the federal government continues to work at a loss. Paying people salaries that are too high and void of any actual accountability. If a private business owner cannot balance his budget his company goes under.
Your argument about WWII was very out of context. You are talking about the military. The military has the job of defending the country not creating jobs. The creation of the atomic bomb was only made possible by scientists from private universities. The government contracted and harnessed the knowledge of scientists from the private universities of Colombia and UC Berkeley. The U.S. government did not have the minds nor the technology to complete this task without privately funded universities.
When was the last time any publicly controlled road ever finished ahead of schedule or even on schedule for that matter. The thing that first comes to mind for me and something that I have to avoid everyday is Dacy Lane and the incredible disaster that has become. All stemming from the overlying problem of governments, local or national, not being able to balance a simple budget.
Your next points about the space systems are comical and ironic. Obama being the great job creator that he is (sarcasm) recently ended NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program and now they are beginning the layoffs for the space agency. 1,500 shuttle workers are scheduled to get their pink slips. By the time all the layoff notices are handed out, a total of 8,000 workers will have been cut. These are some of the worlds best engineers, now out of work. With their specialties where do you think they will get their next jobs? More than likely overseas in countries who are still planning space missions.
I like my imaginary world of accountability.
Rory Oldham
Kyle
