5 thoughts on “Black And Blue”

  1. “Many Americans, like many Greeks and Italians, would like for continued high public employment to provide middle class livelihoods for a growing proportion of the country’s citizens.”

    This sounds like opinion to me. Given the number of Tea Party Candidates who were elected across the country in the 2010 elections, I think plenty of people want smaller government. The polls of recent months showing more and more people sliding away from current policies also seems to say this is NOT what citizens want.

    I think this writer missed a point too. I’m betting there are plenty of non-African American kids who will not do as well as mom and dad did. Given the stall of the economy over the last few years and the slow recovery we’re likely to see, I’m not sure how most 20 or 30 something folks will EVER catch up. And if the Eurozone implodes, we’re liable to see a Depression that will put the last one to shame.

    I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever get back to where we once were as a producing country, world power. And if we don’t get back there, how will the younger generations achieved what we, or our parents did?

    Having said that. I think the people who were children during the Depression, who were teens during WWII, who worked in the 50’s through the late 70’s or even into the early 90’s like my parents did, will turn out to be the real winners in the America Citizen Lottery. They had the might of America’s strongest industrial money supporting their SS checks. They had America’s best years to work, marry, and raise families in, economically.

    Many of the Boomers and Boomer’s kids will have that ever, I don’t think.

    1. I think the operative phrase in that sentence is “many Americans.” Yes, many Americans do see government employment as a jobs program. IMO, there are legitimate functions of government as spelled out in the national and state constitutions. Fulfilling those functions obviously takes a number of public employees. However, it seems the emphasis has been on growing the government for its own sake (jobs program) as opposed to hiring people to fulfill the legitimate functions of government.

      We’re at the brink of a financial crisis. The national debt exceeded $15 trillion last week and the annual deficits are projected at more than a trillion dollars each year for years to come. The hole is deep and we keep digging. How much longer this can continue is anyone’s guess but it certainly can’t go on forever.

      Want to fund the government? How about enacting policies that grow the private sector for a change instead of crippling, demonizing, regulating and hindering it at every possibility? More people working means more people paying taxes which means more revenues available to, among other things, protect the jobs of those necessary public employees.

      1. Larry,
        they just don’t see that digging to get out of hole might eventually, going deep enough, put you in contact with red…hot…burning…magma!

        1. No, they’d rather create jobs like the “3rd Deputy Assistant to the Undersecretary for the preservation of toe jam” (with support staff, of course) instead of face the fact that we can’t afford the number of public employees that we have. Keep the essential ones and get rid of the rest.

          Here’s an idea: we’re expecting another snowstorm tonight. Tomorrow, if they close government offices for “non-essential” employees, start printing pink slips for them. If they’re not essential enough to come to work when a little snow falls, we don’t need them at all.

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