As an addendum to David Goldman’s column today about the publicly employed and the under-employed, I give you this graph:
Then again, David’s plan to put “less-educated workers” fixing roads and bridges might lead to more stuff like this:
A road contractor hired to paint the word “school” on a freshly paved stretch of road near Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina rendered the traffic area in question a “shcool” zone.
(Via: Outside the Beltway)
August 12th, 2010 | 7:21 pm
No surprises here given the 787 billion reasons why the Federal line would remain fairly stable.
What will be intresting to see over the next 18 months is how that lines fares after the stimulus money is completely worked through and whether or not local and state lines accelerate or level off. Either way, it’s a very compelling picture.
August 12th, 2010 | 10:08 pm
Well, given all the panicky scare talk about our state’s budget and how we might have to “cut jobs” from the state government (oh noes! 20% unemployment and some state workers might have to suffer, too?) it seems like it’s a given in some quarters that government workers must never lose their jobs, no matter how many taxpayers are scraping by on their (taxed) unemployment. Of course, some cuts did wind up happening, but nowhere near the massacre levels that private businesses have been suffering.
August 13th, 2010 | 4:27 am
When I took the public sector/police job. All friends and family said I was stupid. What a waist of college 19 years ago. Nobody was jealous because the money was elseware. I took it for the stability. Now that economy sucks people are looking at us like we stole something from the public and don’t deserve it.
August 13th, 2010 | 6:51 am
I agree with Two Year Wounder. When I became a police officer, my family thought I was wasting the college degree I had just earned. My friends all laughed. They were all getting great paying jobs in the private sector. now, fast forward 20 years, I’m in a secure job with great pay and benefits and some of those so called friends have lost those corporate positions and are now greeters at Walmart. But know I’m the being accused of selling out. With the possibility of being able to retire in 5 years at the age of 55, with a pension and full medical coverage, people treat me like I’m a thief. Well, all I can say is look who’s laughing now!
August 13th, 2010 | 8:01 am
What a waist of college 19 years ago
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you your government.
August 13th, 2010 | 8:17 am
@Two year wounder: Did you take the job for stability or to serve the public? If you took the job just for the stability without the intent of serving the public or if serving the public is (or was), somehow, secondary, then yes.. you stole something.
August 13th, 2010 | 8:55 am
“But know I’m the being accused of selling out.”
Put it this way… should someone with this intelligence level and arrogance level be allowed to retire at age 55 with all those benefits on YOUR dime? No? Well what are you going to do about it?
August 13th, 2010 | 9:27 am
WOW… Never seen so many jealous people in all my life. I took a job withthe govt. making WAY LESS than i was in the private sector because i wanted stability. I took a hit and now i can honestly say im glad. If you stayed in the private sector for the big money all i can say is “You have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em” I folded at the right time.
August 13th, 2010 | 9:34 am
This is a good suggestion. Sometimes the government can work.
August 15th, 2010 | 5:51 pm
“Put it this way… should someone with this intelligence level and arrogance level be allowed to retire at age 55 with all those benefits on YOUR dime?”
On the other hand, how badly do you want a 65-year-old cop showing up to catch the guy who just ripped off your wallet?
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