What is relevant here is equating losing one’s job with being thrown under the bus. Our jobs do not belong to us. That is just a figure of speech. When we are employed, we are working for pay. We exchange our labor for a paycheck. So long as our employer (In the case of government jobs, that is the public.) has the money and sees our services as sufficiently desirable, he will pay us the paycheck we want. Otherwise, he will not. In any event, we can always go looking for another position.

When we quit one job for another, do we consider that throwing our employer under the bus? No? Why is that? Is it because the job does not belong to us, and we don’t belong to our employer? Would you like to change your status? Slaves don’t get thrown under the bus — at least not so long as they are considered valuable.

That fact is I cannot by myself not make it us versus them. So long as people strive greedily to fill their pockets with money from our government’s coffers, we have a problem. That is why Tax Freedom Day is in May, and the deficit is ballooning. If we keep up this sort of reckless spending, we will wreck the economy. Then everybody will be thrown under the bus, especially our children.

If our economy were actually “well run,” our government would not be in the business of giving various groups “rights” at the expense of the taxpayers. Because such “rights” employ too many special interests, they are too costly.

Because government spending has become such a drag on the economy, we would all be better off if lots of government workers went looking for jobs in the private sector. To pay for the things our government must do, most of us need to work in the private sector. That is just the way it is.