Crunch Time or Failure
Feb 18th, 2009 by The Outsider
Many businesses have the “Good ole Boy” syndrone. They get bigger and bigger by hiring more workers and think they need more management. Than they need someone to overlook the many projects that are being worked on. Since the government puts many restrictions on what can be done and what can’t, the companies hire high paid corporate lawyers to keep out of legal problems like lawsuits. This keeps on until the company is so large that it can’t run efficiently. One group exists to serve the other groups and pretty soon no one has any idea why they have so many problems. Top management usually lets lower management make the decisions to create efficiency where needed. That generally results in management protecting one another and to put more pressure on the workers who are the ones earning the money for the company. “Blame the other guy”, is par for the course, until the company starts to tank. To make matters even worse, the unions are involved. They add nothing to the value of the product or service the company provides but can strike and shut the company down. I have been involved in these situations a few times during my career and have seen the final result……Crunch Time or Failure!
As the title says, it’s crunch time! When most companies hit bottom they realize it is time to do something drastic. First comes the layoffs of the workers, then when that doesn’t solve the problem, they look at lower management and start laying off. Things continue to get worse, moral is low and people start getting upset at the “best practice” meetings! The top dog looks at the balance sheet and realizes that some heads have to roll. He doesn’t want to get his hands dirty and create hostility amongst his lower management, so he hires an outside ”headhunter” to do the chopping. He also finds other ways to save operating costs by “outsourcing”. He spends less on capital expenditures and equipment and makes do with what he already has. He gets concessions from the workers and the unions. This is the way the private sector works and must work to survive.
A year later, the company does a turn around and profits rise.
Now lets look at our government today! We are hitting bottom. Who is being layed off or fired? No one! Instead they are re-elected and promoted. How many departments are consolidated? None! Instead they create more “oversight committees”. That’s why we have thousands of government offices and departments that do much the same work. Are costs being reduced by outsourcing? No! Does our government produce anything of real value? No! They just create new agencies to overlook the last agency. That just gives them more people to blame for their failures.
What is the most important thing to do in the eyes of government, especially our current administration! Create more government dependant voters and hang on to the reins of power! Where is the oversight committee? Who’s in charge? How are they being held accountable? They are completely out of control!
They aren’t held accountable for anything! That’s the problem. Someone MUST hold these government leaches accountable and that is us!!! How you ask?
One way is to stop feeding the pigs at the trough. Private industry and business should stop paying employee taxes at all levels. Sales tax should no longer be collected by the private sector and paid in to the government collectors. If all of us got together and did this, the government would be in a panic and might start listening to us. We can no longer afford this corrupt government!
Another way to save government money is to pull our kids out of the public schools and demand private takeover of these schools. Our public schools are the largest government project and by far the most expensive and ineffective, other than the government itself! The public schools are over managed, over restricted, overfunded and we get little in return. The unions need to be broken. They have more control over the education of our children than the parents do. How that is ok with us is a mystery to me. The side benefit of privatizing is a better education for much less money and more parental control over what is being taught. It would also get more parents interested in their children’s education.
Nobody tells me what kind of car to buy, although they probably will soon under this administration. Why should they control our kids education? Our children should be more important than the cars we choose to buy.
We are headed for a total takeover of our rights by the far left who prefer Socialism to free enterprise. How long are we going to wait before we get angry enough to act in some positive way to make government responsible in the same way the private sector does with their own? It’s Crunch Time or Failure, failure of us as a free society!