Non-Essential Workers

Whatever would we do without the government to fall back on? Millions would have to work for a living! Children would be educated in droves! Hard work would be rewarded and laziness punished rather than the other way around! Artists the nation over would actually have to produce good art rather than hideous mockeries nobody likes, using our tax dollars. Public radio would actually have to broadcast programs people will listen to, and public television would actually have to show programs people will watch! Corporations would actually have to compete, as the government would not be there to protect their monopolies and cartels – usually using the prevention of monopolies and cartels as an excuse. Jobs would be created across the nation unlike ever before! We would be able to keep every dollar we earned rather than have it taken from us by the government! Since we all know how unbelievably irresponsible people would be with all that extra money, we certainly could not have that! Could you imagine the chaos? People buying and selling like mad! The economy booming like never before! The unemployment rate so low as to be nearly nonexistent! Could we ever survive such a society? Could we possibly stand to live in a society where people live their lives without worrying about the government telling them what to do, how to live, or how to make money, where the rights to live, liberty, and property are respected and protected?

I think back to when Clinton and the Republican Congress shut down most of the government over the budget, and all the non-essential workers were sent home. Let me ask you: what corporation out there has non-essential workers? Anyone the government could send home, they should send home – permanently. There should never be such a thing as a non-essential worker in either business or government. Their presence is the very definition of government waste. If you truly want to cut the budget, get rid of all these wastes of time, space, and money. It is time we modernized and computerized more and relied less on people who work an hour’s worth of work for eight hour’s pay.