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To: Elroy who wrote (369310)	1/31/2008 10:11:16 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1578633

My bet, by now John retracted his idea, that you get a job as an op-ed columnist for NYT. Taro

To: Elroy who wrote (369310)	1/31/2008 11:07:58 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578633

Most good ones don't. They hire more employees as they grow their business. ------------------------------------- Yes they do. All companies that grow at the rate the government grows (with tax revenues, I suppose) do. Yahoo just did, and Yahoo is a great company. You can't just define a headcount reduction as equating to a bad company - that doesn't make sense. Companies get bloated as employees never volunteer themselves as useless, and of course some of them MUST become useless if growth is at anything manageable. The 'goal' of a private company is not to reduce headcount just for the sake of reducing headcount. The goal is to increase profit. If adding an employee that cost $100K adds $200K in profits, they increase headcount. Should the local police department decrease headcount by 20% if it will result in a 20% increase in crime... or even a 5% increase in crime? Wow! That's ridiculous! Government policy makers don't privatize their operations. Of course they do. Look at Iraq. HAL is performing support functions that used to be performed by soldiers. Private contractors are protecting diplomats. Look at all the new private prisons across the country. Governments are always looking to save money... There is this constant mantra that government isn't efficient and isn't trying to be more efficient... ya hear it enough and you believe it. It may be true in some cases, but in most cases it's not true. And private companies are held up as the models of efficiency... BS. A lot are more bloated than government and fly private jets and golden parachutes and private apartments for executives and God knows what other perks. Yet they make stupid decisions every day. But I guess that's Ok........ <I realize this is an, um, unpopular view.>