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Topic: The Underworked
Public Employee |
The Underworked
Public Employee
Wall Street Journal, by Andrew G. Biggs and Jason Richwine
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 12/4/2012 8:06:38 PM
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| With state and local governments struggling to balance budgets in a still sluggish economy, government employment has fallen by 562,000 jobs since September 2008, a decline of 2.6%. In response, the Obama administration has called for more federal aid—on top of the $250 billion doled out in the 2009 Recovery Act—to help keep state and local government payrolls near prerecession levels. But supporters of more federal aid implicitly assume that the size of the public sector was optimal before the recession. On the contrary, overstaffing is a serious problem in government, and the best evidence
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 12/4/2012 8:13:23 PM (No. 9048802)
But over paid!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
provide, 12/4/2012 8:23:06 PM (No. 9048810)
With the Rats in charge, the public employee numbers will swell like the Tammany Hall voter rolls.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley, 12/4/2012 8:35:38 PM (No. 9048818)
More serious than overstaffing is gross ineptitude and laziness, neither one of which is reason enough to fire someone.
The feds hire based on several criteria, such as race, sex, disability, veterans points, and previous federal employment. Somewhere way down the list is qualifications.
Find a way to get rid of the dead weight and things will improve immediately.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 12/4/2012 9:02:11 PM (No. 9048848)
It is my opinion based on observation and common sense that at least 50 percent of government employees are "non-essential". Maybe even more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Axeman, 12/4/2012 9:43:31 PM (No. 9048922)
How much does a job help GDP revenue? Like a person, regardless of their wage, is one of ten employees at a place that did 10 million in business, 1 mil per employee. Most gov´t runs in the minus column. I know it´s not a totally a fair comparison but it does show what needs to be balanced.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bob913, 12/4/2012 11:48:01 PM (No. 9049106)
Judging from the DMV and the Court house for jury duty I would say that the wrong people are employed at to high of pay and with pensions the rest of us don´t have plus it must be mind numbing to work at some of those jobs.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 12/5/2012 12:24:00 AM (No. 9049152)
This waste has gone on for years. Several decades ago I had to hand deliver some paperwork to a government office. It was winter and the" office " was actually two desks in a corner of an otherwise empty airplane hanger. All of the lights were on and it was comfortably warm inside. Obviously money was no object.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/5/2012 4:07:50 AM (No. 9049254)
I´d say 38.4 hours is grossly underestimated. It doesn´t count all the time wasted on socializing and parties.
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