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.