Dear Editor,
Take a brief moment and compare the operating [efficiency] models of two of the world’s largest enterprises. Then make your judgement.
Americans spend over $100 million a day at Wal-Mart stores. W-M is privately owned and operated and highly profitable. It works.
W-M is bigger than Home Depot, Kroger, Sears, and K-Mart combined. It is the largest company in the world with over 3,900 stores in the USA, half of them SuperCenters and employs 1.6 million people worldwide.
Our federal government is surely no slouch with numbers though. Its annual budget is ranked in trillions of dollars, most of it borrowed, which causes a huge national debt as well as the nearly ruinous inflation suffered today.
It is the largest employer in the U.S. and of any government in the world. And it does not work. Some examples of not working:
The U.S Postal Service has operated for almost 250 years; it’s broke.
Social Security was introduced in 1935; it’s going broke daily.
The War on Poverty was initiated in 1964; the poor and indigent numbers increase every year – – – more and more people on welfare and “entitlements” which are paid for by working, tax-paying Americans.
In 1977 the Department of Energy was set up primarily to prevent our depending on foreign oil sources; it currently has 16,000 employees and a budget of $24 billion. There are more available oil resources in Texas, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado than are estimated presently in the world. A new policy directive opens the probability of buying oil from Venezuela, a genuine totalitarian police state!
Americans today are led(?) by a CEO who has spent 37 years at the public trough, a proven political hack who cannot complete a 3-minute TV soundbite without displaying his increasing cognitive failings. His failures and those of his “progressive” party are the reason for this dysfunction and the political/economic mess America suffers in 2023.
WHY NOT install a workable, efficient Wal-Mart model of management/governance that works for the people instead of burdening them with unworkable, expensive, counterproductive programs?
It can be done next year; I pray God we wake up and do it. Until then, God bless America!
El Sellers
Fairfield, Texas
