We have become a Nation with a horrible sense of entitlement...and that will be our un-doing. I'm in manufacturing, and every day I feel our industry under assault. As though WE are the enemy.
If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government."
Saturday, April 02, 2011
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a) if population increases, any human-related government service will likely need to increase its headcount.
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c) pick any industry X that is waning during a time when population is increasing, compare X's headcount with government's headcount, make scary article out of it implying that government is out of control.
d) define industry X as good and wholesome and unique; manufacturing is a "maker", ignore all the "making" that gets done outside of manufacturing.
e) don't examine the counter-examples. for example, rail against "inefficient" government-run education, but never compare the dollar value of a degree from (insanely overpriced) Harvard to the same degree from, say, the (cheap, but well-respected) University of Kansas. Especially don't ignore the dollar value and just compare the *human* value of the two degrees.