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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jay Moran, Small Business Columnist

Recently, while reading through an internet forum, I came across a post of an article by Charlie Reese. The point Mr. Reese was conveying was that out of nearly three hundred million people in the United States, only five hundred and forty-five are ultimately responsible for the welfare of the remainder. While reading that I kept comparing the 545 number to my mind’s idea as to the actual number of people employed by the federal government. I culled the following information from the US bureau of labor statistics website,

"With more than 1.8 million civilian employees, the Federal Government, excluding the Postal Service is the Nation’s largest employer.

About 9 out of 10 Federal employees work outside the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Job growth generated by increased homeland security needs will be offset by projected declines in other Federal sectors; however, many job openings should arise from the need to replace workers who retire or leave the Federal Government for other reasons.

Competition is expected for many Federal positions, especially during times of economic uncertainty, when workers seek the stability of Federal employment."

As I was reading this I was struck, not only by the sheer size of employment, but mostly by the last statement, that to me, reeks of self-fulfilling propaganda.

I have been reading a book called the 5000 Year Leap (W. Cleon Skousen) the past few days and was reminded of something in the book by Taz's post. Mr. Skousen mentions Parkinson's Law in the chapter on protection against human frailty (pp. 163-167). He says, more specifically, "In every human being there is a natural tendency to practice Parkinson's law of perpetual expansion and to exercise personal proclivities toward ego-mania and self aggrandizement." Does this notion strike a chord with any of you?

Parkinson's law most basically states "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Meaning quite simply that it is part of the human condition that allows a person with a fifteen minute task to fill an hour completing said task for no other reason than that there was an hour of time available.

Parkinson's law, as it relates the governmental bureaucracy, requires that the federal government expand it's work by creating more meaningless, wasteful inter-bureaucracy tasks, without providing the tax payer with any substantial return.

Why?? This idea fits so nicely with what we are facing in our current administration. Parkinson claims that the driving force behind his law as it relates to government is twofold, (1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals" and (2) "Officials make work for each other"

Not only is our current administration creating subordinates by offering actual jobs for the federal government and by offering wonderful opportunities to give back to our great nation (see the GIVE act H.R.2857), but they are turning each and every citizen into a subordinate by financially overextending every man, woman, and child in our present population. We have quite literally had our future and our family's future mortgaged to get our federal government out of a self made mess, and to attempt to cement into power the very people who created the mess. Talk about being forced into submission.

The thing that angers me the most is that the foul people who have designed and perpetrated this grand scheme are operating in the name of the American people. Investing in America's future. Not in MY America. These people have banished the word Republic from their lexicon when referring to our country. Adopting instead the idea of a pure Democracy. To make matters worse, they are claiming to be bringing America's wealth back to its rightful owners, and justifying it by saying that this is the "change" that the majority of American's voted for... So let's see, we have majority (mob) rule, we have redistribution of wealth, we have an expanding government working diligently to put individuals and businesses in a subordinate role to its policies, and a federal government that seemingly resists efforts to expose its true intentions. Putting it nicely, we are staring into the eyes of Democratic Socialism.

The bad news is that no matter how well intended the socialist be, his government always deteriorates into tyranny and despotism.

The good news it that you and I are talking about these issues. We were urged by our Founders to act, and act swiftly when faced with situations like this. Let us take heed of the words of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

We must not let the usurpations of liberty by our present administration pass by without serious consideration, no matter how innocuous they may appear if form or function. The modern day administration is masterful with language, imagery, and propaganda. I urge you to use your God given talents to expose these actions or our current administration for what they are, an attack on our God given, unalienable rights.