Of liberals and redistributionists

With 23 years of government service, it’s more than sufficient to build the superficial belief that money rains down from the blue skies of paradise in much the same way as the Annual Christmas Drop.

I was a victim of this cargo cult mentality. It never dawned on this well poised royal misfit that the loot I take home every 10 days was paid for by US mainland taxpayers. When reality finally sank in, I promised never to covet thy neighbor’s pigs….

Interesting that even with this information, we find among ourselves liberal redistributionists who still believe on the superficial increase of government wages.
Even with the fact that average wages in the public sector is about $9.60 an hour–three dollars more than in the private sector–they still believe that wages should be increased arbitrarily.

This adolescent attitude still prevails even to this day. Local redistributionists want to increase wages amidst shrinking revenue generation. Furthermore, they want to increase the salaries of retirees who worked at a certain period at some point in the nineties.

I often quiz if liberal redistributionists are wary that the local government can’t even pay its debt with CUC to the tune of $12 million.
How about the $43 million it owes the retirement fund? Or the deficit that is difficult to retire as mandated by the constitution? How about the closure of 50 percent of businesses here since four years ago that has translated into less revenue and jobs? And you still want to raise salaries and pensions? Hello?

If He’s asked each of us “Do not covet thy neighbor’s…and pigs….”, then you know that the simple message is that we work and earn our dues. To steal the neighbor’s pig so we could barbecue ribs and all is to deny that person a family property he’s raised for years. Well, if you want pork chops or spare ribs or both, don’t steal it from your neighbor. Buckle down amigo and raise your own pigs, too!

Now, knee-jerk redistributionists ought to probe where exactly would they get the money for their assorted raises. Will the source come from your office? If so, are you willing to turn the bicameral legislature into a unicameral system so we save about $3.5 million right off the bat? Aren’t you long on promises but awfully short on sources to fund your election-year pet issue?

You see, none of the three branches of government is into profit making. That’s the purview of the business community. Government only disposes of our income taxes in the best way it knows how. So who would pay the pile of proposed increases in salaries being offered by redistributionists? Gentlemen, it’s the business community, 50 percent of whom have closed shop. It doesn’t follow nor does it make any sense at all, does it?

But then assuming that entrenched redistributionists have instituted progressive economic policies to aid in our collective economic recovery efforts, may I know just what they are other than those that emanated from the House of Representatives, i.e., the Omnibus Economic Reform Bill? Louder please, I can’t hear ya! Perhaps the boys didn’t know that they have suffered from frontal stroke, yeah?