Posted on 04/26/2018 3:47:04 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
The "Newspaper of Record" ran a big story this week that valiantly tried to show how state and local government workers have it so very tough these days.
The 2,240-word front-page story in The New York Times begins by lamenting that, while government jobs used to provide "a comfortable nook in the middle class," those days are gone.
"The ranks of state and local employees have languished even as the populations they serve have grown," the article says. "The 19.5 million workers who remain are finding themselves financially downgraded."
The article goes on to quote Neil Reichenberg, executive director of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources, who says that "it's a tough time to be working in government."
The Times focuses, not surprisingly, on a Republican state — Oklahoma — which it describes as "one of several Republican-led states where persistent anti-tax sentiment and severe budget cuts have guided policymaking."
But in their zeal to tell this story, the Times reporters had to ignore some relevant facts that more or less completely undercut it.
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None of them could handle the real world. within a year, they all went back to the comfy/cushy state gigs where they didn't have to work very hard during their 40 hour weeks.
The public servant has become the public master.
Massachusetts reams me out, no lube. Excise tax, sales tax, income tax, property tax, a tax on the tax on alcohol -- can't remember if that was repealed -- gas tax...I always think about how significantly higher my lifestyle would be if not for tax tax tax. Our roads are garbage, constant construction with no improvement. Our politicians voted themselves a massive raise a couple years ago. State workers collect bigger pensions than many people earn in years, reward for 20 years of sitting in a toll booth collecting even more of my money. Can barely get fom Boston to Newton in a direct route without paying, although at least now the tolls are electronic. I apologize for my "sentiment". Apparently I should want to pay more.
99% of the public is unable to compute the cost of benefits.
Add that to the equation, and the gov worker is above most.
I didn’t even hint anyone was dumb enough to say federal workers were underpaid....but then comes this heaping pile of garbage
What a delusional load of crap. When I was a kid, a govt job represented good benefits for substantially lower pay - now it means platinum benefits and higher pay. They are the elites of the retiree world, with pensions and healthcare.
Oh, and the MBTA runs at a massive deficit despite being garbage with poor service.
The NYT ceased being anything remotely vaunted or reputable; therefore, cease acting like they relevant when they are not other than to their tard socialist progressive readers......
I know a fair amount of overpaid state gov-co drones.
In at 8:30 or 9, gone by 4, and 12 on Fridays. Several don’t do that much. Vacation time that can be rolled over that’s never used since they can come and go.
There are far more that make little, do honest work carrying the load, and somehow make it to retirement.
And they retire in their early to mid 50s with full pensions.
Must be nice.
Fire 50% of the public “servants”. Make the rest do some work.
Don’t forget dangerously unqualified people who have been with the government for decades and decades. Completely jaded disgruntled often represented by public sector unions to keep said the dangerously unqualified and unskilled workers on the payroll.
Example: I work in County IT and have also worked in the private sector over the past 40 yrs. One of my “lifer” co-workers who has been here for over 30 years and makes over 90 grand a year routinely calls and asks “What is the Dell support phone number?”
He hasn’t done any programming since the 80s. He is now what you would call desktop support and doesn’t know anything about computers. Refuses to research any issue but would rather just hand it to me who makes half of what he does.
The stereotype of one guy working while three lean on shovels is rooted in fact.
Dear NYT, maybe things would be better for the poor government works if the state wasn’t having to
At to support your friends. You know the foreign invaders you call “undocumented aliens” . Welfare for their families, cost of housing these criminals, more schools and teachers to educate their children, increased insurance on Everything do to higher crime rates, uninsured motorists etc. Your support of the war against the USA is reprehensible. You are a major part of the demise of our civilization. I consider you a classless rectal orifice.
The pay was not state scale in either case because the cost of living was substantially less in the remote provincial corner where they work.
I have what is usually a two day a year elective office with the county, 15 hours per gig with pay of $130/day.
Maybe the NYT was talking about me, my daughter or my father, LOL!
I see you’ve passed a PennDOT construction site recently, eh?
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