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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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It isn't just the government jobs though. Look at the auto makers and what happened there.
Chrysler in Brampton Ontario was filled full of employees that were all family members and friends of family members. It was incestuous the way people there got hired. I had several friends who worked there as summer employees doing simple things like paint inspection and they were making $30+/hr way back in the early 90s. In what reality is it reasonable to pay a 16yr old $30/hr to mark paint flaws on a car with a grease pencil?
Times got tough, nobody wanted to take cuts in pay because they felt they deserved the insane level of pay they were getting to put nuts and bolts on an assembly line, so now whole factories are wiped out and nobody has work. The unions did their members no favours by not educating them about the harsh realities of what was to come. Don't get me wrong, the corporates aren't blameless either, but at the same time they are the ones who 'own' the jobs.
There needs to be a major correction in wages paid for what people do in the western world and a lot of people are going to get hurt. Right now people seem to think they are entitled to the big house, the two cars, the 100" TV and vacations in Vegas. If you have the education of a warehouse worker and the wage of a warehouse worker you need to make do with what you have, not over-extend to what you want.