Jim Riemersma of Boulder wrote a clever and disturbingly accurate letter to the editor published in the Daily Camera (Boulder, CO):
For recent University of Colorado graduates seeking employment opportunities, I would urge them to consider a career in health and medical administration. As currently drafted, the 2,000 page health care reform legislation creates more than 25 new agencies, departments and service centers. This represents tens of thousands of new jobs and employment possibilities for those currently seeking meaningful new careers. The bill is actually a more powerful job creation tool than the new $50 billion stimulus package presently being considered by Congress.
Graduates would have an opportunity to train and advance in areas such as oversight, control, intervention and bureaucracy building. Advancement will be unlimited and the opportunity to become a czar, joining several dozen recent appointees, is not out of the question. Our federal government is already the nation’s single largest employer and the newly hired will have a chance to join this cohesive team. In addition to competitive salaries, successful applicants will enjoy lifetime job security, full medical benefits and well-funded retirement plans. Fringe benefits may include international travel for observation and scrutiny of best practices in the European Union government-run plans.
An added attraction is that relocation and a move to the Washington, D.C., area may not be required. Members of Congress are quietly and eagerly vying to have these new offices and facilities located in their districts. CU graduates may have to look no further than Eldorado Springs for a job location. Think of it, pure water, open space, hiking trails, climbing and a Senator’s home right out of your office door. Graduates, opportunity knocks.
For details on the bureaucracy, see the Organizational Chart of the House Democrats’ Health Plan by by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee. GOP.gov has “a list of all the new boards, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs created in H.R. 3962.”
Also check out the recent USA Today article on government jobs, which reports that
Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
Note: Just because I link to a couple of Republican sources does not mean I am a Republican (whatever that actually could mean), or endorse the party. If they had not done such a dismal job (and supporting big government) when in power, they could not have lost so many seats in Congress and allowed the Democrats to have enough votes to pass their so-called health care “reform” that is really an entrenchment of the status quo’s problems.
(Thanks to Chuck Wright for posting the letter to the editor on the Colorado Free-Marketers group.)
