Government Efficiency vs. Private Sector Efficiency (Stage 7 Blog)

It is the right of the American people to wonder where their tax money is going. The American people have to remember that their tax money belongs to them not the government for the government itself also belongs to the people since they have the power to elect officials who could terminate or replace their jobs. Nobody can argue against the fact that the private sector is much more efficient than the government. Some people might try to argue that the government provides a better quality of services and products but in reality this isn’t true. The government is inefficient, for example if you try to withdraw money from an ATM machine, and the ATM machine eats your ATM card we are on the phone in minutes finding out why and what can be done about this. If we tried to contact the government on the other hand, with most everyday problems it would get us nowhere because people know that calling upon the government gets you nowhere unless you enjoy a lot of paperwork. The article “Government vs. Private Sector, Who Does Things Better” helps explain why this is. As stated in this article the government is structured to have built in incentives to spend. While a private sector manager might question how hiring additional people would affect profits and income, the government only asks itself whether hiring more people would help get the job done faster, and that question always has the same answer. To be honest the only thing the government does better than the private sector is waste money. The government is responsible for the labor laws and acts and thus strictly adheres to them. The government also has to listen to unions more so than the private sector. Even if a government worker doesn’t deserve a yearly raise, everyone gets one anyway. Unions can be blamed for the collapse of the automobile industry and are taking a larger part in government jobs than in the automobile industry. Government jobs provide decent wages, job security, and nice benefits all at the cost of the taxpayers. The government continues to do so while are nation goes more and more into debt. So is our economy flawed in the profit motivated private sector or the government sector? The question seems to have a simple answer to me.

Re: Arizona's New Immigration Law Continues to Make Ripples

Sammie, the author of the article “Arizona's New Immigration Law Continues to Make Ripples” writes in favor of legalization of the millions of illegal immigrants residing in our nation. What Sammie doesn’t point out is that while America may be known as a “melting pot” there is a difference between immigrants coming to the America to start a life here, and the illegal immigrants who cross the border in search of work. The immigrants coming to live, and stay here are beneficial to society as a whole. They contribute to our economy and help our nation profit as a whole. The illegal immigrants crossing the southern border of the United States have many key differences that were not mentioned in this article. One of these differences is that these immigrants entered our country illegally. They have already chosen to break our laws and I suppose people who don’t believe that we should react to this have the same level of respect for the other laws of our nation. Another key difference is that while immigrants who move into America do benefit our nation and help our economy grow, immigrants who cross the border illegally –more often than not- do the opposite. These immigrants come, take jobs in a nation that is already short on work, and then send much of their earnings back across the border to their families, thus adding to our nations growing number of economic problems.

I understand that people don’t want to be singled out because of the color of their skin but, when a clerk at a liquor store asks to see an ID is that really so different? Could that not have been caused by profiling? Then why not ban liquor stores from checking people’s IDs for the sake of people who don’t like being singled out? Of course this is ridiculous. The laws is in place because it is for the greater good.

How's Obama Really Doing

The blog article "Obama Really?" discusses the large roll that race and Obama's vocal elegance played in the 2008 election. While I do believe that his race played an important roll in bringing out new voters to the polls, I don’t believe it was the key aspect that won him the election. Obama -like the post said- is a very elaborate and... I believe the best way to describe his vocal talents would be to call him a demagogue. He speaks in a manner that makes people put their trust in him without second guessing him. I think it’s important to point out that Obama’s fiscal policies are to blame for our nation's dwindling economy. I think the problems began earlier than the author of this post believes. I think the original problem lies not in the legislation passed recently but in the election itself. During the last debate many people realized that obama was going to win the election, and the thought that a socialist was about to come into power scared many Americans into pulling out what money they had invested in our economy. After reading this article you have to wonder if politics itself is corrupt. The point made that our leaders worry more about retaining their power than problems affecting the nation is a valid argument. If our leaders were less concerned their poll numbers and more concerned about issues like our ever increasing national debt maybe our nation wouldn’t be in the situation it's in now.