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To: niceguy767 who wrote (108630)	2/21/2010 1:19:42 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 116555

I hired many peoeple in the public sector for years. It was about as fair as it can get. People filled out applications with their qualifications and they were put on a list. Anyone can get on the list. We never excluded competion. In fact it was all competition. We had to interview from the top of the list which was made up of a combination of education and experience. I think yu have a wrong imprssion of the state personal services system. We tried evey way we could to be as fair as we could and still get top quality people. And we used quantitative methods to rank people. The wages were actually low, because many legislators hate all government and refused to fairly allocate money for needed jobs. So people like financial officers often had to do two peoples work. I did two jobs for a while and got one pay check. The benefits were just fair. Nothing more. The private sector was more often unfair or inadequate. The union was needed to counter certain governors and legislators who wanted the government employee's to work for peanuts. As Fareed Zakaria said today. People want social programs, but they do not want to pay for them. As pogo said: "we have met the enemy and he is us". and if you are a humanitarian----well?!" My basic point is that it is not humanitarian artificially exclude competition for "public service" (there is that oxymoron once again) jobs by raising artificial union created barriers to entry. Open the gates to competition for public sector jobs by creating more competition for those jobs. Take away the notion of tenure that comes with being hired to a public sector job. Once again, the public sector, once paid much lower wages than the private sector which were offset by job security and a great pension plan. Today public sector jobs enjoy high wages, job security and the best pension plans,,,the best of all worlds...great if you are a public sector worker...but unrealistic to think that an economy can support this topsy turvy reward system for any prolonged period.