Posted by
Bryan Golden on Saturday, November 22, 2008 8:31:51 AM
Wouldn’t it be great you owned a business where:
- Your customers must buy from you
- You can charge any price you want
- You have no competition
- You are not required to provide good customer service
- You don’t have to keep any promises
- If you are irresponsible and spend too much money all you have to do is raise your prices.
This is exactly how your government operates, and you own the government. Unfortunately, our public servants, who are hired (elected) to work for us, think that we work for them.
You, however, must live in the real world. In order for you to keep your job you must keep your employer or your customers happy. Fail to do this, and you will be either unemployed or out of business in short order.
When the economy is tough you have to cut back on spending, work harder to boost your income, or both. When necessary, you do with less. You don’t have the option of making other people give you more money.
Our government must be held to the same standards that apply to us. Our public servants waste no time in calling for us to sacrifice to correct the problems caused by their incompetence. This is completely backward from what it should be. We shouldn’t be punished for the government’s failures.
When government runs out of money it is only because it spends too much. The solution is to reduce spending and reduce the size of government. Any other action is irresponsible.
- Bryan Golden author of Dare to Live Without Limits