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Originally Posted by Sly
All of that sounds great and trust me, I am all for it and so are many many more people. But the reality is, public unions are far too strong. What needs to be done with the public Works sector is going to be very difficult to pull off because of the unions. Any time the government tries to make the public sector a little more on par with what reality is, it falls out. Those unions have so many votes they can pull from a politician it just overpowers any other group.
Colorado is really swinging their dick right now, I'm really impressed. Democrat governor too, which are usually very pro union. Not only is he getting teacher tenure changed but he is also trying to work in changes to the pension program so that it doesn't crash and burn within the next decade.
If public jobs were more on par with what the private sector requires, I really think we would see a lot of changes taking place. And not just the financial aspect. I'm talking worker aspect. Now don't get me wrong, some public employees are fantastic and they love their job and do it well. But the ones that don't should face the same repercussions that bad private employees do.
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I've also found that many public employees have little or no motivate to cut budgets, streamline and cut costs or really do anything to help. Most government jobs are not elected positions so once you have the job you have no real motivation to satisfy the voters. I have seen time and again where money is wasted, too many people are on payrolls for certain jobs and nobody cares.
I wish every city in the nation was required to bring in some kind of group made up of business owners, CEO's, accountants etc and have them take a long hard look at the city and cut the fat to make it run like a well oiled business would. Sadly, that will never happen. People work hard to get on the government tit, once they are latched on they fight tooth and nail to stay there.