I Am Convinced that Most of The Lefties here Work for the Govt

[Jackstraw01]

How else do you justify your ramblings for deficits, printing from the Fed & higher taxes on the private sector & wealthy, for these jobs.

Federal Jobs | Uncle Sam shelling out big bucks for government jobs, GOP says time to cut | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

If you’re one of the millions of Americans still looking for a job, the federal government is hiring, and (especially for the unemployed) the pay is excellent. While private sector job growth creeps along at a snail’s pace, the roster of available federal jobs is booming.

The Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs needs someone to run the Facebook page for the Dept. of the Interior and they’ll pay up to $115,000 a year. Over at the Dept. of Defense, they’ll drop nearly 50k a year for a new mail room clerk, plus the glorious benefits that comes with government work.

In Washington, D.C., there are more than 1,000 openings this month alone. These include a “student internship” program at the Federal Housing Finance Agency that pays the equivalent of $48,304 a year; a $155,000-a-year gig at the Peace Corps to ensure the agency is complying with Equal Opportunity Employment standards; and a similar job at the Dept. of Transportation that promises nearly $180,000 a year.

[Hospitalitygirl]

You *just* figured that out???

[seand]

I don't.

[Bob_Head]

How else do you justify your ramblings for deficits, printing from the Fed & higher taxes on the private sector & wealthy, for these jobs

No. We're all on welfare.

[gren]

No. We're all on welfare.

It's true. I just filed my mortgage interest write off. Uncle Sam set me up good.

[Litter Box]

Sorry to bust your bubble but my only job with the government was in the Army over 40 years ago.

[toxigal]

i used to, but i'm a corporate hack now

oh, and my benefits now...much better than when i was a fed.

[five apples]

How else do you justify your ramblings for deficits, printing from the Fed & higher taxes on the private sector & wealthy, for these jobs.

Federal Jobs | Uncle Sam shelling out big bucks for government jobs, GOP says time to cut | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

I bet they all hate America and Freedom too. I bet some of them are even queer!

[ArcticSplash]

I've never worked for any government ever. Always been in the private sector and I've worked in the F100.

I'm also a stockholder and a bondholder and I participate in the free markets.


And I'm not a leftist/liberal, nor am I a SoCo. I'm not a heavy fiscal conservative because such a critter does not realistically exist, only hypothetically.

I'm a pragmatist libertarian and have been for quite a long time.

[Hospitalitygirl]

The fact is, most government bureaucrats and functionaries find ways to keep their departments' budgets healthy and fat and themselves employed. There is an awful lot of redundancy in government and any talk of "streamlining" government is just that...talk.

It has nothing to do with who loves their country more; what religion they practice or what their sexual orientation is.

It's all about the dollars and maintaining their positions.

[Bob_Head]

I wonder who most of the trolls here work for.

[ArcticSplash]

The fact is, most government bureaucrats and functionaries find ways to keep their departments' budgets healthy and fat and themselves employed. There is an awful lot of redundancy in government and any talk of "streamlining" government is just that...talk.

It has nothing to do with who loves their country more; what religion they practice or what their sexual orientation is.

It's all about the dollars and maintaining their positions.

There's a college course called Human Behavior in Organizations and goes into the sociology behind all of this; and most of the behaviors and decision makers in government actually apply to any kind of institution, even for-profit businesses.

For instance, the budget preservation tendency; that's big-time prevalent in corporations. I've done budgets before and the motivation is obvious. If I don't use up all my budget allotment, does the rest get returned to me as a bonus? No, it is taken away and I get less in the next cycle by the bean counters in the CFO's office.

Even worse, they may take away my open job postings if they see our workload decreasing, so there's also a tendency to "fill work" to preserve the body count.

Middle management gets rewarded when they have more responsibility and one hidden sign of that is how many bodies report to you.


The bigger the organization is, the more intense and rampant these behaviors are. Even the Googles of the world have some of this going on inside which you can't see unless you're a worker.


The only difference between business and government is that it's easier to unload the chaff... usually. Some people though are unfireable; i.e. programmers who have very intense biz knowledge in a software company--those folks are difficult to replace without the company feeling pain, or very good salespeople who bring in a lot of bacon into a company.

[borntochill]

How else do you justify your ramblings for deficits, printing from the Fed & higher taxes on the private sector & wealthy, for these jobs.[/url]

I work in the private sector. Never have worked for the government. But I'm probably not a Leftist by your definition since I favor cutting the deficit too. However, I don't get worked up over some guy tweeting for the Interior Department because that's a red herring...and chump change. For an honest (and entertaining) depiction of where federal tax dollars are spent go to 3:00 in this video:



We could cut the entire Interior Department and it wouldn't put a dent in the deficit. Military spending, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid: that's where the vast majority of federal revenues go. I favor cutting our hugely wasteful military spending by 50%. Once we've done that and saved taxpayers a fortune, I'm open to looking at cutting other entitlement spending as part of deficit reduction.

Since the Republican leadership never puts on the table serious cuts to military spending, Social Security or Medicare then the Republican Party, and the people who vote for them must be Leftists too.

[Oladybug]

This lefty is self-employed and never worked for the government. My sister works for NASA, and tells me that the vast majority of her colleagues are conservatives.

I proudly wear the label "lefty," by the way.

[toxigal]

The fact is, most government bureaucrats and functionaries find ways to keep their departments' budgets healthy and fat and themselves employed. There is an awful lot of redundancy in government and any talk of "streamlining" government is just that...talk.

It has nothing to do with who loves their country more; what religion they practice or what their sexual orientation is.

It's all about the dollars and maintaining their positions.

isn't this true of people in private industry too? they want to keep their jobs and keep their income level. i think even conservatives want those things!

[Sycamore]

This lefty works in the private sector helping individuals minimize taxes.

[Hospitalitygirl]

isn't this true of people in private industry too? they want to keep their jobs and keep their income level. i think even conservatives want those things!

I don't care in the private industry--those things tend to work themselves out in some way or another.

It's called C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N.

[Bob_Head]

I don't care in the private industry--those things tend to work themselves out in some way or another.

I've worked for more incompetent companies than competent ones. The myth of the marketplace is that consumers are educated and will make the smart and reasonable choice. Consumers are idiots.

[Hospitalitygirl]

i've worked for more incompetent companies than competent ones. The myth of the marketplace is that consumers are educated and will make the smart and reasonable choice. Everyone's an idiot.

ftfy

[Bob_Head]

ftfy

I'll buy that. And don't get me wrong--I'm supportive of the idea of free markets in general, but really can't buy into the idea that the free market is a panacea for all that ails us. Bad business thrive and consumers act against their own self interest all the time. As you note. idiots abound.