Making Choices: Chapter 14
...As we saw in the last chapter, sometimes it takes a shock to make a company see the light. The bigger the company, the harder it is to change its course. In the private sector the economic forces weed out the weak and the inefficient. Public sector, on the other hand has a blanket immunity from any market conditions or realities. This is not entirely true, but by the time any kind of corrective action is taken....years have gone by and millions have suffered.A public servant is just that...a servant of the public. It is the public servant's job to serve the public. Sounds beautiful doesn't it? A selfless, self sacrificing individual dedicating his or her life to the good of the country. Classic case of double speak. Today's public servants have one goal in mind. To seek out the maximum amount of power they can. Ofcourse, all this concentration of power comes at the expense of the general public. Think about it.
Do any so called public servants or elected officials produce anything? Anything at all?
Do they grow food like a farmer? Do they make steel? Do they dig coal? Do they produce paper? Anyone.....???
These elected officials make rules and regulations for the rest of the public. Law after law is passed. Look at our tax code. The most devious and unjust system ever designed. 10 days plus the first 5 months of a man's wages and earnings are taken away by the Government. 6 months out of the year you work to pay your taxes. Out of what's left you still pay a sales tax everytime you buy something...gas tax, this tax, that tax.
Meanwhile, these departments keep growing bigger and bigger. These bloated "servants of the public" are on a drunken orgy....with no end in sight. Deficit after deficit. Essential services are cut. School programs are cut, taxes are raised...even more, real state taxes go up......but never....are these bloated governmental agencies reduced.
The rules that apply to the private sector....do not apply to the Public sector. If a private company did what these folks do..you wouldn't last a day. I am sure, by now you get a clear picture of what's going on. The foxes are in-charge of the hen house.
The business owner is well aware of all these problems. Folks, don't forget the "Global economy", "free trade" and all the other fancy acronyms. All these are more fancy schemes to suck the last drop out of the patient.
Why ?
Simple. Anyone elected to a public office will do everything in his or her power to keep that job. He will try to create more rules and regulations. His sole mission is to spend more money than he did last year. In the Public sector common sense is turned up side down. Whereas in the Private sector, the goal is to be a lean, mean machine, to save as much money as possible, to be more productive in the Public sector none of these rules apply to the Public sector. The word "productive" is not in their vocabulary. The more departments this guy creates , the more important he feels.
Recipe for disaster.
This disease spreads to big corporations and small companies alike. Take Chrysler corp. as an example. They had so many different departments, and so many different layers, that the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing. Finally the company went bankrupt. Utterly, totally bankrupt. It is at this point that Mr. Lee Iacocca (sp?) was brought in...to try to salvage this company. Why was this gentleman successful in saving Chrysler? I mean they had hundreds of folks who were getting ungodly amounts of compensation to run Chrysler. Had everyone at Chrysler had a lobotomy? Answer, yes...in a manner of speaking. All these folks had been brainwashed into thinking that they knew what they were doing. It took an outsider to come in....and remove this cancer. This malignant and deadly disease that had spread to every nook and cranny at Chrysler. Since this was not a governmental agency, Mr Lee could do as he wished..no ifs, buts or nos.
First, he fired all the department heads...the punk drunk leeches.
The Power players:
Quite a few converting and sheeting plants have a few individuals that suffer from this "know-it-all syndrome". This includes a few owners as well. Only one thing, no two things, that can change this mind-set. One is a self realization from within, and the other is bankruptcy. For no outside force can change this mind-set.
