The jokes are over
By Jim Thompson
HCP columnist
The best thing the federal government can do for us is provide a level and safe playing field where those with the ability to work can do so.
I worked in a facility one time where the managers prior to the coterie that came in when I did had cheated and lied their way through life trying to save their jobs.
They had created fictional inventory to the tune of a month or more of production – that is lying and prosecutable.
One of our new team, my best friend for close to 50 years, liked to say, “The jokes are over.” And indeed, they were.
Within a year, we had increased honest production by 50 percent, got rid of all the falsification (there were many problems other than inventory) and put the facility on a solid footing. All without any infusion of new money from corporate.
That is what I see with President Trump now: The jokes are over. Domestically and internationally, President Trump is pulling no punches. Look at the press conference he had on Monday, Dec. 16. He took 44 free-wheeling questions. That is genuine competence.
The only question now is can President Trump undo the shenanigans being pulled by the Biden Administration right now with the intent to tie President Trump’s hands. I think President Trump can do it.
Capitalism is like gravity. Violate it and you end up being injured. For decades now, our federal government and the governments of many countries around the world have been severely injured by irresponsible capitalism-defying steps.
In almost any field of human endeavor, we have seen these foolish steps that have wrecked our country and caused our so-called allies to take advantage of us.
Does this mean we should ignore the indigent and the disabled? Of course not. When we realize our potential, we can help the indigent and disabled better than anyone else.
But let’s not act as if the indigent and disabled fill a tent bigger than it needs to be. In recent decades, everyone seems to be a victim needing special help. This is nonsense.
Laziness does not mean indigent. A poor education does not mean indigent – perhaps we should look up your teachers or parents and charge them with malpractice if you did not get a good education. (I am joking, of course; but we need to solve this problem – clearly spending more and more money doesn’t work).
We have become a land of excuses with an ever-smaller portion of the population carrying the load for all. This is going to stop one of three ways:
• Our national debt is going to push us into bankruptcy.
• Those carrying the load in the form of taxes are going to rebel.
• Or just, perhaps, President Trump and his team can turn things around.
It shouldn’t take long for President Trump to do this. That facility I mentioned before, again, we turned around in about a year. If President Trump can do it in one term, that would be a win for the nation.
The jokes are over.
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press.