A business always thinks twice before it adds another person to it’s payroll.
There is the cost of wages which must be met week after week, month after month. Beyond that there are payroll expenses: Social Security, workers comp, payroll accounting, etc.
Now add the fact that more people need more layers of management so it’s not just that one person‘s wages and payroll expense, but it adds to the whole burden of the company overhead.
And every person needs a place to work. So in addition to that new person you need trucks or tools or space with furnishings and equipment for them to do their job.
And new people require training. Nobody hits the ground running, so there’s always a break in period—time when other people need to stop what they’re doing and bring this new person up to speed.
So adding a new person is not a casual decision. It must be carefully analyzed against the bottom line.
With that as context, it’s alarming how easily our current president adds 87,000 people to the government payroll. Not 87; not 870; not 8700, but 87,000 new mouths to feed—casually added to the government payroll like ordering up a new box of pencils.
That could only make sense to a person who has received a cushy government paycheck for, oh, say 47 years and never once in his life had to meet a payroll.
They told us the adults were coming to Washington.
We’re waiting…
