How the government really works

Once upon a time the government had a scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said," Someone may steal it at night."So they created a night watchman position and hired a person at $18,000.00 a year for the job.

Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people -- one person to write the instructions for $22,000.00 and one person to do time studies for an additional $22,000.00 per year.

Then congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a quality control department and hired two people. One was to do the studies for $31,000.00 and one to write the reports for an additional $31,000,00 per year.

Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created the following positions:
a time keeper for a $35,000.00 annual salary and a payroll officer for an additional $3 5,000.00
Then they created a n administrative section and hired three more people -- an Administrative Officer at $155,000.00 per year, an Assistant Administrative Officer at $125,000.00 and a Legal Secretary at $100,000.00 per year.

Then Congress said, "We have had this operating for one year with a budget cost of 574,000.00 and we are $18,000.00 over budget. We must cut back costs."

SO THEY LAID OFF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

Thanks Donny Mac