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Austen Goodyear
Mrs. DeBock
English 4 Honors
March 3, 2015
Business Sectors Competition
Government, the fallible term that has plagued many a people seeking freedom in a selfgratifying sense for centuries. By the people and for the people, a philosophy created by
revolutionaries and those of rebellious consort. Why now is it that the people find themselves
competing with those same forces they created to provide peace to a rather complex form of
existence? The U.S. has a strictly private economy in which government controlled businesses
maintain monetary flow and an economic status quo, but now government business is competing
for profit with the unlimited financial backing of the U.S. government.
To prevent competition, it is almost necessary to proliferate the existence of a monopoly.
Rather, let this monopoly stand as that of one in favor of the private sector over those interests of
the public sector. When Americans require a service they often turn to popular sources for said
sources, but such exercise is of no necessity as long as public means exists in proximity (Thune).
The private sector stands to gain its profit and, in turn, expatiate the profit or income of the
standard employee in the private sector from its grip on essential services. There exists, after all,
services that stand to receive no gain or financial break. These services are dealt with by the
government, but now that the governments public sector is overstepping its bounds into that of
the private sectors monopoly over essential services; the private sector is suffering loss at the

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hands of its own beneficiary. The Freedom from Government Competition Act (S. 1167), that
would require the federal government to rely on the private sector when providing services that
are readily available (Thune). A senator John Thune proposes a bill that would limit the
governments increasingly expansive grip over the US economy, and eliminate sector
competition without discretion.
There now exists cases of those services originally meant to be enacted upon a sort of
necessity causing interruptions of business in the private sector. The USPS is the finest example
of a public institution gone wrong, but resolution of the issue has been set aside. From 2007 to
2010, the USPS lost $20 billion, and its debt increased from $2.1 billion to $12 billion. The
USPS expects to hit its $15 billion legal borrowing ceiling in 2011. (DeHaven). Due to
restrictions and legal ceilings imposed upon the public sector, the USPS is incapable of adapting
to their situation or solving their issues. With private sector business closing in, the life span of
the USPS is expected to be dramatically short. In order to save future taxpayers a great burden,
the USPS should be privatized and postal markets should be opened to all businesses (DeHaven).
The USPS is in a financial death spiral, and if something is not done then the economy could see
a repeat of these problems before long.
Just how different is employment in both the private and public sectors? Apparently the
uncalled for competition between the two is showing in pay grade. Workers in the state sector
received a fifth more than counterparts at private firms when pensions were factored in (Hyde).
The public businesses that are supposed to provide support for businesses in the private sector
are now offering benefits better than those in the private sector. This creates competition on a
new plane, as employees are now drawn to public jobs and support of the corresponding sector
over the businesses of The People. This pay gap is twice as large for women, with women in

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the public sector making 20 extra cents an hour vs mens 10.5 extra cents an hour (Hyde).
Government business is now using money and benefit advantages to gain a footing against the
private sector with competition in mind.
The US has a strictly private economy in which government controlled businesses
maintain monetary flow and an economic status quo, but now government business is competing
for profit with the unlimited financial backing of the US government. The government the people
created was also designed not to turn against them. Men are given power, and it is at that point
that they either continue in due process or conflict with the goings on of the people. In the
current case, the economy is seeing the growth of unprecedented competition between the private
sector and its own government, the public sector.

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Works Cited
Thune, John. "Unfair Government Competition Undercuts Private Business (Sen. John Thune)."
The Hill. Web. 11 Mar. 2015.
DeHaven, Tad. "Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service." Downsizing the Federal Government. Web.
11 Mar. 2015.
Hyde, Dan. "Public vs Private Sector Pay Gap Is 5,000 (or a Fifth of Earnings)." The Telegraph.
Telegraph Media Group. Web. 12 Mar. 2015.