<<Some government employees provide good and useful service. Most probably work hard at jobs that aren’t worth doing.>>
Where do people get these ideas there are a bunch of over paid people working at government jobs not worth doing? I worked in government off and on for 30 years. Everyone I saw was doing necessary work.
What I saw more often was people being overworked because legislatures hack government budgets across the board (say 10%)without knowing what is needed.
What usually happens, is Department budgets are cut across the board then the commissioners must find places to cut. As their job depends on other people, positions that are not addressing a crises, or do not get a lot of political pressure get cut first.
E.g. they will cut a state land surveyor because they can delay that work, but they must have financial officers.
E.g. take state land issues regarding leases, easements and accretion. In my state there are two people where there should be about 20. And we are rich.
If you need or want to get a lease on government land, file for accreted land, or need an easement, say for a house encroching state land or a sewer crossing state land, you are looking at 6 to 10 years. It is an area that has no political lobby, or is something that needs immediate attention like financial officers, so departments cut these positions.
The last land deal I did, regarding a lease on accreted state land illegally filled, the lease was filed in 2006 and has still not even been taken up. 200 cases are ahead of it.
The truth is that people want social services, but do not want to pay for them.
Usually people do not even think about what social services they depend on like police, fire, bridges, drivers licenses, deed recordings, water, sewer, snow plowing, ambulances, EMT's, mental health facilities, building inspectors, orphanes and on and on and on. |
