Job Security–Working for the Government

Barack Obama is beginning to announce his economic plans for his Presidency.  One of this plans, according to The New York Post is to stimulate the economy with massive government programs–public works projects to overhaul the country’s infrastructure.  Not surprisingly, Congressional Democrats are willing to back the plan. 

But wait a minute.  There will be jobs created in private industry by this package–all paid for by tax money.  Therefore, even though technically more people will be employed, all of us will be paying higher taxes to pay for their employment.  These will be government programs.  There will be no chance in them for private companies to develope techniques that make their manufacturing more efficient.  There will be no chance for inventiveness in the private sector to discover new products and new uses of old products.  Since the programs will be run by the government, they will be no chance for investors to back companies financially and make money through their backing.  This program is like putting an anchor on the free enterprise system and then complaining that capitalism doesn’t work.  Capitalism does work–when it has moral underpinnings.  One of the writers of the U. S. Constitution commented that the document was designed to govern a body of people who took their morality and integrity from God.  It is becoming more and more obvious that until we go back to some sort of moral standard in this country that includes ethics and morality, we will be essentially ungovernable.  All the laws in the world will not stop dishonest people from taking advantage of any legal loophole they can find–internal morality (a conscience) will.

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