THINK ABOUT IT

Suppose for a moment or two that the government controlled the salaries and benefits of most of the employees in the country.

And then suppose that most of those employees became dissatisfied with their salaries and benefits and decided to strike.

Whom would they be striking against? Individual companies? The government?
Think about it.

When the government controls salaries and benefits of most workers, dissatisfied workers must deal with and perhaps strike not individual greedy capitalists, but rather all powerful, greedy government officials.

Which would you rather deal with?

And then think a bit about Greece and France and even Spain these days.
Think about rioting and national bailouts and national economic hardship and collapse.

Yeah, we really have it rough here where the government can order bailouts for companies it chooses, regardless of the collateral costs to greedy capitalists.

Students and employees in religious hospitals and universities, dissatisfied with the policies of their workplaces and study places, take their complaints to the national government, seeking government intervention on legalistic although questionable constitutional grounds.

More and more, the government of the US is seeking to morph previously worked-for self-improvements [bad phrasing] into some kinds of rights belonging to all citizens, even non-citizens, regardless of whether they earn them or not.

And the workers who usually have really earned those same enhancements, often at great sacrifice, get to pay for the freebies to the newbies.

I am beginning to fear that we are watching the [gasp] inevitable erosion of a fact of life, that lots of good things in life are not free; that when they become free they will cease to endure.