The President Has Things Backwards Again

Well another liberal has come down with a case of "Public Sector Employee Inflated Self Worth Syndrome." Also known as "It's Not You, It's Me" or it's not your success, it's our success, which, if you are stupid enough to believe makes the fruits of your success, not yours, but ours. This time the public employee is the president who is marching around proclaiming that if you are successful and have wealth that you did not do this, the government did this, after all without the roads, bridges, services and technology provided by the government you would have nothing and be nothing. Not long ago his white house financial advisor, Elizabeth Warren made a similar argument with a strong rebuttal of class warfare charges levied by conservatives against her boss pointing out that no one gets rich on their own but with the help of the state in the form of police protection, fire fighters, educated workers. roads, the military, etc. Unfortunately, the president, Elizabeth Warren and the rest of the liberals entire premise is built on a lie. It is not we who depend on them, it is they who depend on us. They are our employees that we hired to do the things that we decided that a public entity could best do which is ensure our safety and protection and build roads and bridges along with other things that we have decided is best done by a public institution rather than a private one. But, when they do something, such as take our money and do what we have instructed them to do and build a road or bridge, then, turn around and say, "Look what we did for you, you would not have this without me" this is exactly like your employee telling you that you could do nothing without him. Obama is our employee, everyone in government is our employee. It's not them, it's us. We do not mind paying taxes, that is not our argument. Our argument is that the government takes too much in taxes and wants to take more, wastes too much of what it is given and runs up a debt that can never be paid off. We have been clamoring for smaller government, lower taxes and responsible spending behavior but rather than comply our employees have accused us of not being grateful that they have provided our success, please give me a break. cjpost