(The following High Noon editorial is an exclusive for Hip Hop Republican Sunday.)

By Lenny McAllister

Throughout the past several months, conservatives have been very vocal with their stance against big government. Amongst the complaints listed here on Hip Hop Republican has been the argument that big government hinders the growth of the urban communities across the nation. Further, the argument has been made that with this expanding and inhibiting presence in place, there is an inherent need for big government to continue to expand for self-sustaining reasons.

Now, proponents of the position against big government have more proof in the pudding to make their case.
Actually, it’s more like more cheddar in the wallets of big bureaucracy.

With the recent USA Today study showing the disparity between compensation packages between federal employees and private-sector workers, there is yet another set of facts that indicate why the positions against big government have merit, particularly in a nation where small, private businesses drive the national economy at such as high rate. With salaries alone, federal employees are making no less than $7,000 more annually than their private business counterparts at least 80% of the time. Once things such as health care benefits and other job-related compensation are included, the gap widens to amount to a difference of roughly 30%.

Not to demonize the good people that may be working on those federal jobs, but at the continued rate of expansion of big government (notably at the federal level), not only will government bureaucracy continue to stifle the development of urban communities as it has at the state and local levels for decades, but it threatens to bankrupt the country in the process of serving the people through government employment.

Without the expansion of small business growth throughout the United States over the past few years due to the Great Recession, there is no way to sustain the level of compensation dominance and big government growth that we current experience. Government creates nothing – no profits, no products, and no services – that it does not initially take from American taxpayers. That group of contributors includes small businesses that pay taxes – ironically enough, to help support the spending needs and business expansion of its competition in some areas (i.e., the government.) At the current rate, this cycle of private-sector atrophy may move on as another side effect of this “jobless economy”, thus making the private sector a smaller player in job landings.

Studies such as these indicate that incentives for individuals to find, create, or maintain small business opportunities for themselves and others are shrinking in the wake of such compensatory contrasts in a time of economic crunch. The proposals on the horizons are not better. Health care proposals that include health care insurance mandates will provide two obvious pathways if imposed: 1) a law that will force small businesses to provide health care for employers or face federal fees/taxes instead; and 2) in the event that these small businesses take the economically-feasible option to drop health care coverage, these employees are more inclined to seek long-term employment solutions that provide good health care packages – including those that involve government jobs.

See the money leak? And if it looks like this with business comparisons, what might it look like if liberal-dominated health care proposals become law?

It is bad enough that big government policies and bureaucracy has had a large hand in the current conditions of urban plight that we experience. It is worse that we see that the self-sustaining direction of government bureaucracy also has a role in stripping away the attractiveness of small business ownership, small business building, and community business investment through such a competitive advantage as an employment competition. Not slightly those that work the positions, but it is clear that those employees are in a better position than those they are employed to serve at least 80% of time, a ratio not off its axis of balance, even for the political world of Washington. This trend of big government has too many lingering side effects to continue its current rate of growth.

At some point soon, America will need to reclaim the smaller government mantra if America as we know it today (and knew it years ago) will remain a viable option for current and future generations of visionaries and builders of better lives. Hopefully as well, there will be people big enough to take up the mantle of courage and foresight to fill the void that will be left once a self-perpetuating web of government bureaucracy again finds its proper place as a prudent and humble servant for the people, not an ambitious employee of the people.

 
Lenny McAllister is the author of a new book, “Diary of a Mad Black PYC (Proud Young Conservative),” available online at www.tinyurl.com/lennysdiary and www.amazon.com. The political commentator was featured in the panel discussion “Young & Black in America: Empowering the Next Generation of African American Leaders” in 2009. Catch Lenny with host Shirley Husar on Hip Hop Republican TV this Friday at 11:30 AM EST (8:30 AM PST). He is featured regularly on outlets including CNN, Fox News, and XM Radio. Follow Lenny Sundays exclusively on Hip Hop Republican, Tuesdays through Fridays on national publications, at www.twitter.com/lennyhhr , on Facebook at www.tinyurl.com/lennyfacebook , and also at http://pycmusings.blogspot.com .