Government can't create jobs that spur the economy.

Why is it, Anthony Alberta, (“Government not a creator of jobs?” Yuma Sun September23) that those who are so in love with our burgeoning federal government feel obliged, in the course of their arguments, to resort to character assignation:  If we disagree with you, we are of course Neanderthals who belong to the Flat Earth Society.   When your argument is weak, you attempt to buttress it by slinging a little mud.

Anthony scorns Tea Partiers for saying the government can’t create jobs and then lists a number of government jobs that serve us well, collecting our garbage, protecting our borders and our homes from fire and crime, building roads.  Even the most conservative of us like cruising our interstate highways and fully support our border patrol and our military..   

The federal government has been assigned several specific duties, those among them.  They would probably do a better job if they would focus like a laser beam on those jobs enumerated in the constitution and quit trying to manipulate the economy.

What the government does not do is create jobs that create prosperity.  According to a 2011 Gallup poll about 25 per cent of Americans work for the government in some capacity.  According to The Wall Street Journal, 47 percent of people in this country, both citizens and non-citizens, are receiving one or more federal benefits payments. If I figure correctly, that means that 25 per cent of the people are supporting the other 75 per cent. 

Here’s a secret that you don’t seem to understand.  In order to provide the tax money so that the government can get their constitutionally enumerated jobs done, we need a vibrant private sector.  When the feds get involved in the private sector, we bear the burden.  The Solyndra debacle is the most recent example, but let’s name a few more, just local ones:  The millions they spent on that solar system off interstate 8 for drying hay bales.  I don’t think the place ever dried one bale.  The millions they spent on jojoba fields all along interstate 8.  Not one crop was harvested. 

According to Silicon.com, seven out of 10 of the government’s Information Technology projects fail. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack "public-private partnerships" incurred an estimated $400 billion in losses and brought the whole country to its knees, social security is broke, the war on poverty created more poverty, Amtrak….the postal sevice….

Congress is spending other people’s money, so they don’t look at the bottom line.  They just salivate over the number of voters who are lapping at the trail of freebies they drop on their way.