Where Are The Other 21 Million?

WHERE ARE THE OTHER 21 MILLION?

By Jim “Gymbeaux” Brown, September 12, 2016

According to www.cnsnews.com, there are currently 21,995,000 Federal, State and Local GOVERNMENT employees employed by some element of our governments http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955000-12329000-government-employees-outnumber-manufacturing. There are an estimated 324,591,806 million Americans as per http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/.   That means there is ONE government employee for every 14.6 Americans.  These are not numbers that I can personally attest to, thus I have included the links to the sites that supposedly can. 

Have you ever thought about these numbers before?  If you watched Sharyl Attisisson’s Full Measure http://fullmeasure.news/ on September 11, 2016, you will hear that governments (Federal, State and Local) are no different than any business.  Before I explain what that means, think for a second that YOU are an owner of a business, any business, type does not matter.  If that were the case, what would be one of your main objectives of owning that business?  To grow; who wants to remain in one place with no growth, no profits, no expansion?  If the government truly IS like any business, and it is, it also wants to grow does it not?  That is how we have reached a point in America where there is now ONE government employee on the Taxpayer Payroll for every FOURTEEN Americans.  Think about that for a minute.

Have you ever heard of Edward Snowden?  What about Julian Assange?  Most people have and most people have formed opinions regarding what they both have done.  Some think they are heroes, others think they are traitors.  What if they both have kept silent?  Would we know about how intrusive the NSA and other government agencies have been by spying on not only the enemies of America but also some of its allies and more importantly American citizens, like you and me?  So set those two aside.  Have you ever heard of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn?  You may not have but I certainly have.  I have also read his book, The Field of Fight, I highly recommend reading it.

Even if you ARE aware of General Flynn, you may not be aware that he was fired by President Obama because he testified (I believe under oath) before the U. S. Congress for what he said about ISIS.  All he did that was wrong in the eyes of the President was to call our enemy, Radical Islam.  Oddly that is the truth so the President fired a very senior military officer for telling the truth; imagine that.

FAR MORE IMPORTANTLY, I want to know where all the other “truth tellers” are in the Federal, State and Local governments.  Over 21 MILLION EMPLOYEES and we can think of only 3 people who have spoken the truth, ONLY THREE!!!  What about the other 21,994,997?  What are they doing?  What have they been doing?  Where is the integrity of the over 21 MILLION on the taxpayer’s payroll when it comes to outing what our governments have been doing that may be illegal, the wasteful spending of taxpayer money, the failure of other employees to tell the truth?  Where are they?  They don’t exist and/or they put more value on keeping their jobs and staying behind their desks than they do in telling the truth and outing other government employees that put their own best interests, usually in the form of power and/or money, than they do in doing the right thing.  It’s called INTEGRITY and it appears, at least to me, that over 21 MILLION of the people on OUR payroll simply have none!  PERIOD!

If you want to know why I am so disgusted, it is because it makes no difference whether you are talking about Democrats, Republicans, Independents or anyone in between; their collect voices are nonexistent!  At the moment the light shines squarely on the entire Democratic Party when it comes to Hillary Clinton.  Put politics aside.  Did she or did she not lie about Benghazi?  Did she or did she not lie about her emails?  On both counts she lied yet the Democratic Party is totally silent on the subject.  When President Bush wanted to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein allegedly had weapons of mass destruction, people today are extremely critical of Bush when at the time these same people (John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Great Britian, et al) signed on to his actions meaning that they approved of the invasion.  Where were all the truth tellers then?  Where are they now?

What would you do if you worked for the Federal Government and you personally saw someone lying, violating the law, engaging in totally wasteful spending of tax dollars or better defined as other people’s money?  Would you go about your business as if nothing had happened or would you blow the whistle on these people?  If you say you would blow the whistle, you might want to think about your answer.  When over 21 MILLION had or have had to make the same decision to make, they became totally silent except for 3 or no more than a handful of employees.  Most we probably never have heard of because they were either nipped in the bud before their disclosures ever found the light of day or they were fired never to be heard from again.  Therefore, BEFORE you answer, you have to decide what is more important to you, your INTEGRITY or your JOB?  Obviously MILLIONS chose their jobs!  So much for integrity.

Leadership is realizing that you do not know all the answers.  You hire people to advise you of THEIR opinions regarding situations and then YOU make decisions based upon your knowledge and the advice of the people you have working for you.  You will not always agree with everyone in fact you will rarely always agree with everyone but you take their advice to heart and then act accordingly.  What you don’t do is FIRE THEM unless they are that disruptive to the process or they are engaged in illegal or unethical activity themselves.

Personally I don’t agree with what Snowden or Assange did but I am thankful that the truth was uncovered.  General Flynn on the other hand, did nothing other than tell the truth to Congress and look what happened to him.  Point made.