That 3 Letter Word, J-O-B-S (or) Educating the Yahoos

Stephanolopous? Snuffleupagus? Jetson? Who knows?) interviewed the Man of Steele, RNC Chairman Michael Steele. The video is below.




The words won't ever get through Georgie-Porgie Puddin' Pie's finely coiffed news-hair, but Steele is absolutely correct. Government jobs do not create value, they do not create wealth. There is a big difference between "having work" and "having a job". I'm sure there are some exceptions, but most government jobs--metaphorically speaking--are just shoveling one pile of money from one pile to another pile. Sure, you get paid for that "work", but of what value to the overall economy is that kind of work? Does filing out R2-D2 forms at the Redundant Office of Redundancy all day help increase the GDP, or decrease the trade deficit?

Since our President is so intent on drawing comparisons to the Great Depression and FDR's New Deal, let's make one of our own. How does paying people to dig ditches, and then paying them to fill those ditches back, help the economy? Again, it puts food on the table for the workers' families, but that's not the problem! Most government jobs are the equivalent of digging a ditch.


In Gulliver's Travels, living with the Houyhnhnms (intelligent horses) made the narrator dislike living with the Yahoos (the humans). Watching the news makes me hate living with the Yahoos, but instead, it's my job, and the job of all Republicans to instead educate the Yahoos, and not try to live separate from them. That didn't work out well for Gulliver, and it won't work for us.