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Originally Posted by garce
Why do public employees make twice the pay for doing half the job in the first place?
If 90% of those useless lazy fucks had to find a free market job, they'd have no benefits, no insurance, no pension, and would be making barely minimum wage.
Its worse in Canada. Once you get a government job here, you - and the next ten generations of your family - are set for life. Insane benefits. Insane pensions. You don't even have to actually work.
I think more governments should just pull a Reagan and fire everybody. Do not renew their contracts. Shit, for everybody who now holds a taxpayer supported job, there are fifty (random number - probably higher) people willing to kill a kitten to fill the vacant slot. Cops, Paramedics, Firemen and trained military personal are needed and should be paid well. Everyone else? Expendable and easily replaced.
You get a government job because you know somebody. You do not get a government job because you are qualified to do it.
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A few years back there was a big shake up in the town I live in. It is a small town and like most towns when the recession hit the town felt the pain. There was a big budget fight and it was clear some people were going to have to be cut from the city payroll. The City Administrator wanted to fire a couple of cops and a fireman. It was then found out that there were three different people on the city payroll that all made more than $50K per year and full benefits and they didn't even have a defined job. They were friends of the administrator's and he "created" jobs for them and was now trying to protect them.
Eventually the city council voted to fire the administrator and along with him those three people and three others that worked in city hall. They also fired the city planner and his "assistant" and hired a part time person to do that job. There has been no interruption of service, no complains of bad services. The city has gone on working fine as if those people never existed. Total they trimmed close to $500K from the city budget with those people.
Like you say, once you get into the system, baring a major incident, you can be there forever so long as you keep your head down and appear to be busy and you can ride gravy train for years and nobody ever questions it because the government is not a business that needs to make a profit so nobody cares where or how the money is spent.