April 18, 2009
Government Employees – What Should We Do?
Despite my love for my country and my faith in my fellow citizens, a poor economy brings out the ugly in people.
So here is the debate: Our government is stuffed with employees that are unneeded and just sucking up taxpayer money. We could easily cut thousands of jobs across the nation without the efficiency of our government suffering at all. However with an unemployment rate nearing 9% nationally, do we really want to take jobs away from a few thousand more people?
The thing that confuses me the most is that the lousy economy is costing government jobs but not in the clerk’s office and the many assistants but rather in the police stations and fire stations where we can’t afford to lose people. Who’s brilliant idea was that?
There doesn’t seem to be any easy answer and no one seems ready to comb through the over employment of the government. Consolidation could help our country but until these are jobs to replace the ones lost, we probably shouldn’t mess with government jobs. Otherwise we’re losing tax revenue, spending more on unemployment benefits and opening the door to more foreclosures, homeless families and necessary state aid.
