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with most positions in career-style private sector employment, along
with knowledge, skills, and abilities a candidate is expected to be a
team player. As such, they must fit in with ease to help the
cause and achieve the company’s goals.
Goals in business are pretty simple. If a void is found, ideas are kicked around, a solution is agreed upon, products and/or services are offered, which finally lead to money made for the company. Amen.
The company’s backers – often stockholders – are suddenly recipients of dividends for taking a risk on creating something new out of whole cloth. Most ground-up business ventures, however, fail nearly daily due to a compendium of societal speed bumps.
International viruses, guvment rules and regulations, climate and weather issues, commodities, and such certainly contribute to the success of both companies and guvment, alike. There are several differences with distinctions, though.
Guvment entities at federal, state, and local levels have the Power that businesses do not. Guvment agencies possess the ability to continue business as usual through taxing individuals and companies for more revenue, unlike those individuals and companies that must somehow pull more extortion monies from their butts. Those same agencies further often employ unreasonable regulatory hurdles that hurt businesses competitively.
Politicians are those special people who feel they are entitled to everything – everything – just because. While running for a spot on the ballot, they promise the world and more to everyone.
Free this, free that, and more free this, just so that they get the nomination. Once on the campaign trail they employ piety to attract kind people’s attention. They also promise to help the downtrodden in society with drug addiction rehabilitation, lower housing costs, more favorable interest rates, in addition to the proverbial chicken in every pot.
This is where the rubber meets the road. Guvments – be they local, state, or federal – produce only two things: hot air and red tape.
Guvments don’t make cars, candles, shovels, toilets, clothing, wristwatches, or even guns and tanks for the military. Since they produce nothing, they have absolutely no knowledge as to what a profit is, or how to turn a deficit into one without using a gun and getaway car.
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| An $85 shoelace |
Yes, politicians run America much like the Sicilian Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) allegedly ran their operations in America. With the benefit of graft, corruption, payouts, and extortion, La Cosa Nostra became involved in many facets of life for which people begged; unfortunately, they were operated with benefits slanted toward the Mafia and against the people.
If that sounds familiar, you may remember happenings under the Barack Hussein Obama administration. God-like President Obama promised health coverage for everyone in America. Bar none!
People were agog as that swishy commander-in-chief paraded around stages across the nation making the same pledge at each venue: free or affordable healthcare for everyone.
But that was a lie, and Big Mike’s wife knew it was a lie. Conning the public into believing his bulls hit, a lopsided Democratic Congress passed the Affordable Care Act which was anything but.
In the details hid the important part about taxpayer-funded premiums that would be paid by those citizens who dutifully acquired their own health insurance. The fix was in, though. And that secret part of the ObamaCare bill expired under the Donald J. Trump second term.
With astronomical tax hikes needed to continue this half-baked Ponzi scheme, Congressional Democrats began lying about President Trump’s kicking people off their healthcare plans. Fortunately, this stenchy maneuver exposed the Democrats for the thieves they are.
This is only one example of the massive con game with which politicians have been grifting the American public for decades. Lie about the legislation, pass bills in the dead-of-night, then blame exorbitant tax hikes to cover their smarmy deeds on the other side of the aisle.
On the flip side, corporate America operates exactly the opposite. Very little in the way of money is spent unless there is an excellent chance of return-on-investment, or a favorable action is on the horizon.
The United States military, as of December 2025, had 2.81 million service members worldwide, including 1.33 million active-duty troops, according to usafacts.org. That’s a lot.
Take firearms manufacturers, for example. That same U.S. military mentioned above uses firearms and, I dare say, should have at least one firearm per soldier – plus a couple extra in case some get lost, stolen, captured, or break.
All of these firearms are purchased through guvment contracts to supply the troops. Tanks, airplanes, ammunition, ships, helmets, even boots and troop underwear, are all purchased from vendors. Those vendors vie for contracts with competitive bids. Often, those bids are subject to Congressional scrutiny. Remember those shoelaces?
The bidders are comprised of private corporations who make their money not from higher taxes they simply impose, rather they are selected by dedicated committees to make the final determination for lucrative, long-term contracts.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, it seems as though many of Congress’ Best could be tempted to hold out voting on a contract for goods and services in exchange for ‘special considerations.’ Perhaps those contracts could be steered to minorities, maybe a gratuity is involved as a way to say “Thanks!”
Which calls to mind a searing question about how a civilian entering Congress with an annual salary of about $179,000, can be worth over $20,000,000 withing five years in guvment service. Baffling, right?
Short of stealing Rayburn House Office Building cafeteria tip jar money, I cannot imagine from where those magical income disclosure numbers come. And apparently neither do their winking fellow Congressmen.
Finally, let’s look at unemployment in America.
According usfiscalclock.com, as of September 24, 2026, the estimated unemployment figure stands at 7,000,000 eligible full-time workers.
Perhaps it is time to put these, and other, idle people to work by having them manufacture weaponry, helicopters, clothing, tires, ammunition, prepackaged troop food (MREs), and even walnut Congressional desks and matching chairs, to stop possible contract shakedowns, manufacturing issues, and supply chain hurdles.
All this will likely alleviate the unemployment situation about which the Democratic Party is constantly carping. Simply put, a clear conclusion.
Otherwise, these phony do-gooders will be summarily placed front and center in the spotlight of criticism, and rightly so. To do nothing to rectify any and all bad economic situations borders on criminal. It further places each Representative not interested in the missing-in-action category, to be remembered come election day.
It is now up to you, the voter. You’ll get what you asked for.





