Plant dynamics: Chapter 24
The Emperor has no clothes....Not so long ago, the person who picked up your garbage was called the "garbage collector". Now a days he is known as a "sanitation engineer". No matter what title is bestowed upon this person, the fact remains that he still collects garbage. Couching the truth by twisting words fools no one. The public sector has carried this "sham" to the height of absurditity. Titles upon titles, subtitles and other strange names are given to simple everyday jobs. The disease has spread to the private sector as well.
The Public sector employees keep adding sub-titles and multiplying. The job that can easily be done by one person is now split up in such a way that it takes 10 to do it now.
Forms are generated. The instructions for filling these forms are so convulated that no one can understand them. This beast keeps growing.
Hanging on to power;
Anyone who suggests a reduction in budget for these bloated bureaucracies is targeted.
Politicans dare not touch any of these sacred cows. And the public suffers.
The private sector bears the burden for all these new agencies. For the first time in American history, there are more people working in the public sector than the private sector. In other words 47% of the people in this country support the other 53%. This ratio is getting wider and wider. You don't need a looking glass to see that this system is doomed to fail.
There are lot of people in this country who are well aware of these facts. Every business-man knows this. He sees this cancer spreading, yet he is utterly powerless to stop it. The big multi-national corporations are reeling like drunkards. They are in bed with the politicans. Special tax breaks and other perks are enacted into law that give these giants special treatment.
Folks, for a business to succeed in this climate requires extra effort. You have to increase production to survive. There is nothing you can do about fixed costs. Your insurance costs will keep going up....this is totally out of your control. Taxes, both State and Federal will keep eating up to half of the fruits of your labor. Real estate taxes will keep going up. Energy costs will keep rising. Raw material prices will keep going up. Every step you take will cost you more. Tuition costs, medical expenses etc., all going up. It is indeed a depressing picture.
America's strength lays in its middle class. The gap between the rich and the poor is becoming wider and wider. This "wealth divide" is the root cause of all the third world countries woes. In the 3rd world you have the super rich and the poor. There is no middle class. When the middle class disappears the country falls apart. The patient has been sucked dry. There is no more blood left to be sucked. That's when the vampires feel the first pangs of hunger. Then the vampires turn on each other and the biggest , baddest vampires take over. There is no rule of law. The vampires make their own laws.
Pray thee, tell me of any farmer who won't tend to his fields. Or one who won't save seeds for the next seasons crop. Tell me of a farmer who won't tend to his animals. Does he not work 7 days a week? Does he spend more than he earns? Is he not a good neighbor?
If you can name one farmer who does not do all these things, then he is not a farmer. And if he is , he will waste his fathers heritage and good name.
The very Earth will curse him. The cries of pain of his unfed animals will reach the very doors of heavens.
But what about the farmer who does everything right? He looks after his flock, tends to his crops and works 7 days a week. " Thou shall sow, but strangers shalt reap thy fields". See any connection?
