This is just my opinion, so please be kind...
Call this what you may, but show me a Business Man/Woman that would cut revenue and give away it's profits as a way to make things better for the Company, and I'll show you a Company going out of BUSINESS FAST!!!!
That's why there are GOVERNMENT JOBS..... People in this country expect Government to do certain things.
So since this is a conversation about the differences between these three areas of JOB CREATION (Public, non-profit, and Private), but I'm only going to cover two of them. So I guess, I should jump right in..
What are "PUBLIC SECTOR JOBS"?
To me a "Public Sector Job" servers the public in general, from the days when street lamps had to be lit-up at night, to the cop on the beat, to the school teacher, and even our elected officials. These are all "Public Sector Jobs" and they are paid with the "TAXES" collected by our "GOVERNMENT", but people out there say that they shouldn't be paid with Taxes, because it costs to much. Well let me ask you this question, Do you think that the Teacher, the Cop, or the Firefighter who makes $40,000.00 per year doesn't pay any taxes? Because if you do think that these people don't pay any taxes, then you are lying to yourself. These people pay taxes to pay their own salaries no matter the job they do. "Public Sector Jobs" can include work dealing with our public road system, because we know there is not a company out there that will do the work of keeping our roads safe and keeping them free for all to use. Yes I know how road work is done,
I worked the field as a Construction Flagger (and I just loved making people late, but that's a different topic) and knowing that the Government pays a contractor to do the work, so these jobs are more of a public/private partnership than a public sector job, but with this being said is there a company that would do the work without the partnership?
What are "Private Sector Jobs"?
Well this is an easy one to answer since most of us know. These jobs are created for making "PROFIT", nothing more or nothing less.....
Yes since we are comparing there two sectors, we can now dig in as they say. There are many "Careers" out there some in both fields, but there are many that are classified as "Government Jobs" that are paid though Government Contractors. Take the Defense Industry for instance, do you think the worker building the ships in the "Navy" are in the Navy? No these workers work for a shipbuilding company, and the way that company gets the ships are though contracts to build, then the company hires the workers, while still making a profit, that's why it's a "Private Sector Job", but Government funded.
We can compare many jobs out there, but I won't because I hate typing (not the greatest typist).
As I stated in the beginning of this diary, there is not a company out there that would cut revenue and give their profits away, but that is what the Republicans in Congress want to do under Mitt Romney, and doing so will throw us into a DEPRESSION worst than the one of the 1930's. Think about it for a moment..
Austerity was tried in the 1980's over in Great Britain and look where it got them. NOWHERE, because it doesn't work. Do you remember the RIOTS during the 1980's in Great Britain?
The Government must replace the basic Infrastructure with-in or the country as a whole will fall apart, because Corporations see no profits in doing this, so they will leave it for the Government but now Republicans don't even want to do this. If we are to allow them to do this, our country as a whole will fall to 3rd world status and we will become "SLAVES" to both The Republican Party and Corporations just to live day to day.
As a member of The LDS Church, I have no love for Mitt Romney because with all the teachings of the CHURCH, I believe Mitt Romney is not following them. The Church teaches that we should care for the poor, the sick, our seniors, the disable, the orphan and widows, but the direction Mitt Romney and the Republicans are heading in leave these folks for the WOLVES to get, and I for one don't like it. I'm very confused why Mitt would go this way, since he knows the words of Christ when it comes to these folks and I quote "When you have done it onto the least of these, you have done it onto me." My other concern with Mitt Romney is all the "LIES", he knows this is wrong, but Mitt will say anything to get elected. With all the lies coming out of Mitt's mouth, you don't really know were he stands on to many issues it reminds me of that song "You have got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything". So were does Mitt stand?
So the question in November, will come down to this, who will keep our country moving "FORWARD" toward an economy that works for all Americans, not just the rich, and if we should loose the battle we will have to take it to the streets as those in Great Britain did..