Here's How Government And Industry Can Both Create Jobs.

Here's how governments work. Some folks have looked at the military and how it might trim it's budget to cover the new requirements to work with a smaller budget. They think it might help if some of the "head office" personnel were let go. As you know, there's a Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. which is made up of the top leader in each branch of the military. But each of those and the Secretary of Defense have Under Secretaries, Deputy Under Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Under Secretaries, Assistant to the Assistant Under Secretaries and Special Assistants to the Under Secretaries, and several layers under them. What if they gave computers with "word" to a couple of these secretaries? Maybe they wouldn't need so many assistant secretaries. Yeah, okay, I know these "secretaries" aren't actually secretaries. They're just called that instead of "guy in charge of". But what about all these guys, and ladies, do we really need them? How much do we pay them? Well, some seem to be paid as much as $250,000 a year. The average is somewhere around $145,000. Why so much? Well some have extremely high security clearances which means the could earn more from  private contractors. Here's a thought. Lay them off, let the contractors hire them. Case solved. See, the work they do now, can be done by the contractors, right? We just saved millions. Well except that the contractors will have to raise their prices by $500,000 and $290,000 to cover their costs of operation. See how a simple cost saving device can cost you one hundred percent more, at the very least. That's why shrinking government is so hard. On the other hand, by laying off those people and having them get hired by private businesses, you accomplish two goals. You shrink government and increase employment in the private sector. So the next time you hear somebody claim that government can't create jobs, only business and industry can create jobs, just smile and say "thank you". Now, how you arrange for business and industry to create jobs, shrink government and cut taxes all at the same time, I'm not sure. It may work on paper, but not on the ground.