quote:Originally posted by JuanHunt:quote:Originally posted by LE89:
I should have been more specific, I suppose. The Gov't cannot create a "non-politician" job out of thin air without creating a need out of thin air.
Postal Jobs - Private sector does it much better, they just can't compete with a service that loses money
National Park Service - Un-necessary but I do like the Parks.
Air Traffic Controllers - Replaced by Reagan when they went on strike. Replaced by CONTRACTORS for the most part, with GOVT officials to oversee them.
NASA - everything produced by private companies. GOVT workers do not turn a wrench, oversight only.
Yes we can hire millions of contractors to produce something mandated by the GOVT and hire thousands of GOVT employees to oversee. Almost all are unnecessary.
NASA working for DOD has evolved, not originally intended. Just another GOVT program that could not be shut down after its' goal was accomplished. Not against NASA, just a good example. Once a program starts, it never ends. It may have highs and lows in funding but it never ends.
GOVT produces nothing, zilch (except more worthless paper and coin money). Services, yes, zillions of un-necessary services. Private sectors do it better, period.
Most of US jobs dont produce anything, as we are a service economy.
No private company will do the constitutionally mandated USPO job for a fixed unit cost as we have today.
I am going to go ahead and assume that you have no idea what NASA, in HSV or elsewhere, actually does.
Obviously, as demonstrated in this forum repeatedly, we need a better public education system.
As to the US manufacturing section, WRONG AGAIN!
"According to the latest United Nations Statistics data (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/dnllist.asp) the United States is the largest manufacturing nation, with an output of approximately $1.83 Trillion. This is followed by China at $1.79T, with these two nations far outstripping any other nations (Japan $1.05T, Germany $767B and Italy $381B). The rate of growth in manufacturing in China far outstrips that of the US, with its manufacturing industry growing more than an order of magnitude in the last two decades, during which the US has not even doubled its output.
According to the Department of Labor (sourcing the United Nations United Nations, National Accounts Main Aggregates Database, http://unstats.un.org/) citing 2005 data the U.S. accounts for 20.6% of the worlds manufacturing nearly 1.5 times that of the 2nd largest (Japan 13.3%) and over twice 3rd largest (Germany 8.2%). The aggregate combination of the EU-15 This link has an explanation of the calculation methods and links to the charts showing the worlds top manufactures: http://www.dol.gov/asp/media/r...xa_manufacturing.htm"
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What...ndustry_in_the_world