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To: TimF who wrote (9832)	4/18/2002 10:26:02 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

the government doesn't go bankrupt, There are managers supervisors and people preening for promotion. I gather you have not seen any of the government offices in action. In my experience they work as long and as hard as similarly salaried employees. TP

To: TimF who wrote (9832)	4/20/2002 8:25:16 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

<<I have no reason to think that public employees are inherintly less productive than private sector employees.>> ____________________ "I do. If they are not productive the government doesn't go bankrupt, it just does less, or more likely taxes more." That doesn't make any sense. You are adducing non productivity as being CAUSED by a correspondence with a reduced proficiency with the likelihood of bankruptcy. But you do not make any connection for your fancy... "the government doesn't go bankrupt, it just does less, or more likely taxes more." This is not relevant. I suspect that the likelihood of )individual) bankruptcy is never a significant factor in how little the government does, or how heavily it taxes...