"This transformation is happening right in front of all of us, and it affects everyone, no matter where they stand politically". The Proximity Portal
There is some real shrinkage going on. A good friend told me this morning that the question to ask is no longer, "how did we get here but how do we get far away from here?" I agree. I am a civil service brat. My mom, dad, aunts and uncles worked for an array of agencies. These jobs, at the time were seen as beneath the general public to do. My family worked hard and these low paying jobs were roads into the middle class. People.... if you are obsessing over wages paid to government workers you are overlooking the decline of the American wage. The goal today is to remove the middle class. The last several weeks, the bulldozer has effectively done this. I hear people say, "smaller government is a good thing." And I always ask, how do you know this? The answer always come to be less taxes. Taxes are like stamps; people pay for them, but they don't know how the price is determined. Middle class people pay taxes because upper class people and lower income people don't. This what a tax break is. People don't pay attention to how government is funded. It so frustrating. Get ready, Medicaid is about to be cut $800 billion dollars to fund the tax breaks for the wealthy. Everyone does not pay their fair share and the mantra, 'when I get to be rich, I don't want to pay taxes: is right next to, 'when I win the lottery' and 'When Santa comes and brings me my special gift." These childish beliefs.
Bureaucracies are not bad. They are beneficial "to the people" when the laws and policies are just and the funds are used for the purposes intended. We pay a little and get 'big dividends' from governmental institutions (federal, state, and local). But when the laws and/or policies are corrupt this does not happen. People pay and get nothing in return. Welcome to modern day taxation.
Education is a bureaucracy. The teacher should be the highest paid profession in this country, but they struggle because people don't understand what they are paying for. Soon the dissolving of the federal department of education, the cessation of federal funding, and the deportation of children, will cause hundreds of schools across this country to close, and teachers to be fired. The middle class will take another hit.
"This transformation is happening right in front of all of us, and it affects everyone, no matter where they stand politically". The Proximity Portal
There is some real shrinkage going on. A good friend told me this morning that the question to ask is no longer, "how did we get here but how do we get far away from here?" I agree. I am a civil service brat. My mom, dad, aunts and uncles worked for an array of agencies. These jobs, at the time were seen as beneath the general public to do. My family worked hard and these low paying jobs were roads into the middle class. People.... if you are obsessing over wages paid to government workers you are overlooking the decline of the American wage. The goal today is to remove the middle class. The last several weeks, the bulldozer has effectively done this. I hear people say, "smaller government is a good thing." And I always ask, how do you know this? The answer always come to be less taxes. Taxes are like stamps; people pay for them, but they don't know how the price is determined. Middle class people pay taxes because upper class people and lower income people don't. This what a tax break is. People don't pay attention to how government is funded. It so frustrating. Get ready, Medicaid is about to be cut $800 billion dollars to fund the tax breaks for the wealthy. Everyone does not pay their fair share and the mantra, 'when I get to be rich, I don't want to pay taxes: is right next to, 'when I win the lottery' and 'When Santa comes and brings me my special gift." These childish beliefs.
Bureaucracies are not bad. They are beneficial "to the people" when the laws and policies are just and the funds are used for the purposes intended. We pay a little and get 'big dividends' from governmental institutions (federal, state, and local). But when the laws and/or policies are corrupt this does not happen. People pay and get nothing in return. Welcome to modern day taxation.
Education is a bureaucracy. The teacher should be the highest paid profession in this country, but they struggle because people don't understand what they are paying for. Soon the dissolving of the federal department of education, the cessation of federal funding, and the deportation of children, will cause hundreds of schools across this country to close, and teachers to be fired. The middle class will take another hit.