The Self-Destructive Path of Growing Public Sector Employment

Saturday, August 14, 2010
By Paul Martin

by Scott Redler
Minyanville.com
Aug 13, 2010

Things were sure different when I was growing up. My parents taught me the value of a strong work ethic because that was how you got ahead in life. I shoveled snow off neighborhood driveways starting at age 10, and by the time I hit 13 I was busing tables at local restaurant where, at 16, I became a waiter. In high school I hit the books hard with dreams of going to college and becoming a doctor, lawyer, or Fortune 500 CEO. Sadly, our society has allowed itself to drift in an altogether different direction.

“Anyone who wants to work an interesting job, earn a generous salary, enjoy unbeatable, rock-solid job security and, most importantly, advance the public good in pivotal ways would probably favor the federal sector,” said Lily Whiteman, Federal Careers Expert. This quote represents a troubling new reality in today’s American society: The public sector has become more attractive than the private sector. Today, however, government favoritism toward public workers has skewed the sense of values that are the American capitalist hallmark. Ms. Whiteman continues on to say, “…government employees seem to work shorter hours, have more vacation time, access unbelievable health care, never worry about job security and even make more money than people slugging it out in the private sector.” Sounds like a dream job, right? Work less, don’t worry about losing your job over poor performance, get better benefits, and get paid more for doing a job that contributes very little to the nation’s output. So what, now, are parents supposed to tell their kids, “Weasel your way into a government job and you’ll be set for life”? The reality of the situation is that the government always looks out for its own, even when the economy is spinning down the toilet.

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2 Responses to “The Self-Destructive Path of Growing Public Sector Employment”

  1. Lynn D.

    Scott Redler: The stock market is rigged by the Wall Street banksters, just like both political parties are really ONE party and all the politicians are bought. The government is PURPOSEFULLY destroying the private sector jobs and the U.S. economy. What PART of this DON’T you understand???? And most of their “pet” government workers will be next on the agenda when they are no longer needed. This is what happens to godless nation. A nation who serves the devil get’s what it deserves.

    “The devil comes only to kill, to steal, and to destroy…..” John 10:10

    “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. Deut 28:43

    “And those who earn money, earn money to put into bags with holes. Haggai 1:6

    “For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is there any understanding in them.” Deut 32:28

    “Those who lead you cause you to err, and those led by them are destroyed.”

    “Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them In the day of the Lord’s wrath; But the whole land shall be devoured By the fire of His jealousy, For He will make speedy riddance of all those who dwell in the land.” Zephaniah 1:18

    “Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time, For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.” Deut 32:35

    #4703
  2. Lynn D.

    Those who lead you cause you to err, and those led by them are destroyed…….Isaiah 9:16

    #4704

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