I have to vent. Let me know if I'm off completely.
I read in the paper this morning that senior government officials have received around a 15% pay increase. This is amidst a huge budget crisis in which many hospitals are having to cut back service and all hiring has been suspended. It will cost over 19 million euro per year to cover the pay increases, which by the way were revealed the day before a holiday weekend. The chief of finance is now making over 370,000 euro per year. I suppose the saying "Socialism works great if you have the right people running it" can again be shown a farce. The government is reporting that it will have to raise taxes next year to accommodate its spending. I am still not being payed over-time (I worked 12 hours today) and people that can't do their job correctly are giving themselves enormous raises. The physicians I work with have been offered a 37 hour work week and will not be paid for any time over that (which means they probably won't be paid for working on Thursdays or Fridays because they'll be over their hours by then). The free market system could accommodate raises because they are in fact based on productivity and share holders won't pay for poor results. Even in the government voters approve such increases or show the government employees the door. These government officers now make more than the President of the United States, who is (throat clear) the leader of the FREE world. It is sad how dependent people become on such an inept group of leaders.
We just go about our business and hope for the best. Hopefully we won't be corrupted by this sour system. Be thankful for what you have, it could always be worse. I could go on but I'll sum up with this: When Hillary is elected urge your congressman to VOTE NO on government run health care, and send your HMO a thank you card!
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Unfortunately socialism has an inherent ability to infect the masses with a perpetual dependency upon the perceived need for increased socialization. Samuel's warning regarding Saul rings familiar here.
Good job son! You get to see it in action for yourself and to think, the trend in America is in the same direction. Just like soft drugs are considered a stepping stone to hard drugs, socialism is a stepping stone to full blown dictatorial communism. It's progressive and pervasive and very hard to stop once it takes hold in a society. We need to develop a chemo-therapy for socialism before we're all standing in bread lines.
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