Entrepreneurs serve the public way more than public servants.

In the 2008 Presidential campaign, Barack Obama said something to the effect that if you go into Public Service you should enjoy certain tax benefits and other benefits such as forgiveness of your student loans.

Why? Why is this seen as noble?

Instead of offering student loan forgivness or special loans to people to decide to work where the source of their income is on the backs taxpaxers, shouldn’t it be just the opposite?

Shouldn’t it be that if you leave college and become an entrepreneur serving your fellow man with a product or service, and creating private sector employment opportunities for people YOU should be the one to get your student loans forgiven or special tax benefits?

What’s so magical about going into public service in the government? A businessman that opens a company is offering far more service to the country that is the person that goes to work for some government department.

Government employees cost taxpayers money and offer them very little value in return (and in some case no value whatsoever).