Greece has taught us all a lesson.
That lesson is:
Socialism is parasitism and is always doomed to implode any economy stupid enough to play at it.
Leading a majority to believe they can work [sic] for the government leads inexorably to implosion, due to a lack of production and productivity. “We’ve found a new way to generate paperwork faster, but your pay will remain the same” (having worked for the gubmint in the past, I’m just boiling down things I’ve heard people say with a straight face but in different words) doesn’t make anyone more productive.
An old coworker pointed out that, in private industry, the fewer people one has doing the same amount of work leads to more jobs, more market share, more profits, and raises for managers. In gubmint, pay rates are based on how many people report to a manager either directly or indirectly (or if they don’t have *anyone* reporting to them, their scale corresponds to equivalence, a comparison of unlike jobs carried out by, well, another gubmint employee), IOW, there’s an incentive to increase hiring for no other reason.