Job Performance?

Would you hire someone to do a job and never check on their job performance? How about if they kept coming to you wanting more money? What about if they took a lot more time than they should?

If you answered yes to the three questions above, then read no further. Anyone else reading forward should be honest and admit that 99.9% of the time, you don’t know what your representatives are doing, but you keep giving them more money.

My Congressman says that in the past two and half years the national debt has gone up $3.7 trillion . It took from 1776 to 1992 to accumulate the amount amassed in those two and half years. That means that in the twenty five or so years in between, government built up about $10 trillion more.

Let me check my numbers. It took 212 years for government to build a debt to just shy of $4 trillion, another twenty-five years to tack on roughly $10 trillion, but only thirty months to add almost another $4 trillion. It’s best to talk in round numbers when dealing with these amounts.

The job performance sucks. How about the results. We fought several wars which we won. Then we learned to fight wars and not win. We’ve sent people to outer space and built some roads. For all that money, we should have a paved road to the moon.

I talked to a friend of mine today that is an educated man. He has a doctorate degree. That makes him smart - at least sometimes. His opinion is that there are no honest politicians. They all go to D.C. to get rich and play powerful while they wait to retire with pension and benefits that would take a working man or woman’s breath away. Working people don’t even dream as wild as the benefits.

It seems to me that we need to fire a bunch of people and get some new ones that want to work. And, I don’t mean ones that tell a lovely story, but real people that are hired hands, not little gods.

Nah, it wouldn’t work.

PMO
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