How is it that a few of you on this thread manage to be here posting extensively, all hours of the day and night and speak of activities outside of your own job that are incredibly demanding or fun and still be worth the 6 figures they pay you at your primary job?

I have been on the gravy train a few months in my life, but I am interested to know how you do it for at least the two or three years that this blog has been up.

Maybe this insinuation doesn’t fit anyone and I apologize in that case. However it is apropos to this thread to mention something that is rampant in government and tax payer supported contracting and maybe other places. I am not saying that many or maybe even most people in these jobs don’t do an honest days work. I don’t know how extensively it occurs in the private sector but I think with the credit boom and small time crony capitalism it must have proliferated.

One of the bandaids I actually hope the politicians keep in the box is “Job Creation”. Authentic creativity should come first and jobs second. This is just another type of pushing on a string and has much to do with our problems. Not surprisingly the mandate falls with the fed.We could do fine,in my estimate of what fine is, with a big correction and many fewer jobs per capita when necessary. Our society is so addicted to consumption and debt that we can’t tolerate that so we create jobs and money and war if necessary.

Many folk on this thread have metioned a cleanout of the system and I certainly wouldn’t mind if it addressed these situations.

O.k. I rambled a little. But those points always bother me. I don’t often times see them addressed other than the incorrect accusation from time to time that all government employees are lazy.