Opinion/EditorialPublished 10/22/09
IT TAKES MONEY TO MAKE
MONEY, AND BELIVE ME "THEY
TAKE!"
It seems that
everyone is disgusted
with government, and our
elected officials
today. They do what is
in their own self
interest, and totally
defy the will of the
people. They work for an
institution that pays
them up to $500,000 per
year, and the benefits
are outrageous. They
have Pensions and Health
Care that make the
average working man look
like a peasant. The
institution that
provides them with all
of these great perks-
Makes No Product. This
institution is a service
provider only. They tax
the earnings, savings,
purchases, sales,
property, and the
improvements, of every
working person and
business person in this
country. An institution
that makes no product
provides it's employees
with a better deal than
most working Americans.
They tax the equity of
our livelihood to
provide for their own
"Better" livelihood, in
exchange for the
services they provide.
Looking at the
President, House, and
Senate Leadership, let's
say there is about 1000
elected officials that
can make up to $500,000
per year, plus perks, to
serve the country. They
are a service sector
that provides the
services of Government.
However this county is
in debt by Trillions, so
I must ask who are they
serving? Not all of this
money goes to
maintenance of citizens,
infrastructure, and
defense.
Well let's see.
Once elected everything
they do is at the
request of the 50,000
lobbyists that
represent the Private
Sector. They make
even more money than the
Government Officials.
Together they are both
providing a service
that doesn't produce
a product. This
Representation of
the Private Sector
to influence the
Public Sector is not
all manufacturing,
infrastructure and
defense. No! They also
represent Wall Street
and all of the other
Service Sectors that
Provide Services
and produce no
product.
The Wall Street
service sector makes
even more than the Lobby
service sector, and
they only service the
Private Sector. They
make even more perks and
salary and everything
they do is Tax
Deductible. Hank Paulson
made $500 Million
dollars
in 2 years by taxing*
the shareholders at
Goldman Sacs. (*Stock
Options given to you
free at the expense of
the other shareholders.)
Then he went to work for
the Govt. and took
Billions of the
Taxpayers money and
gave it to the
Private sector and
no one knows where it
is. These are the
services that are
provided while never
making a product.
Wall street makes
more money for insiders
than all of the sectors
they service. This is
equivalent to the
waitress making more
than the restaurant.
When you think of the
bailout, it is like the
butler and the
accountant (the likely
suspects of the missing
money) buying the
masters house in
foreclosure for cash.
The service sector is
making more money than
the sectors they service
and the sectors they
service are deeply in
debt or bankrupt. Their
cost of service exceeds
the net worth of their
service. This system is
of course the
"Redistribution of
Wealth".
When you think of
all the reason you hate
government and taxes
just remember that Wall
Street does the same
exact thing and
worse. The
government taxes
percentages of earnings
and value by law. It can
not exceed earnings.
Wall street siphons
liquidity at will, and
is not regulated by law.
It can therefore
Privately " Tax" all
liquidity to the point
it exceeds your
earnings. I will
site the Cost of Health
Care to prove my point.
You can't afford it
because the
unregulated monopoly,
applies a "Private CEO
Compensation Tax". It's
not because
of the "Government Tax".
However all health care
costs should be tax
deductible. Wall
Street siphons liquidity
as a service. The sweat
of your hard work can be
siphoned away before it
gets a chance to cool
your body.
Maybe the reason
Toyota is the number one
car maker and it's stock
is so high, is because
like many countries, our
Military provides them
with protection, they in
turn provide their
citizens with health
care, and their CEO's
don't get Stock Options.
Stock options are the
drain plug on the
economic engine. When
wages are low, quality
is poor, no benefits are
provided to employees,
two parents have to
work, and government
entitlements are
eliminated for war and
bailouts, just to pay
the Cost of the CEO's
that make more than the
Sectors they Service,
It's a Tax. It is the
Private sector taxing
the liquidity of
everything and everyone
for the sake of only the
few insiders.
The C.E.O.
(corporate elite
oligarchy) has been
taxing the consumer,
businesses, and even the
government, for over
forty years. If you want
to hate the government
fine. Just remember the
government is run by the
private sector not
us/U.S. They both make
more money by taking
more money.
William J. Wahlsteen
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