Posted on 10/08/2015 12:41:44 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Well, I’m now retired after 50 years of active duty and then Federal service. I feel not the slightest remorse after serving. Whom did I serve? On active duty it was Grunt Marine and Army ground-pounders in combat. As a GS-15 I served two “customers.” The same active-duty trigger-pullers, and the taxpayers. Why should I feel remorse that the Fed Gov paid me (except when I was furloughed (laid off), and got a retirement?
TC
The study found that federal government workers earned an average of $84,153 in 2014, compared to the private sector’s average of $56,350. Cato based its findings on figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
OK, I admit that I learned math in a public school, so cut me some slack.
But it seems to me that if on average private sector employees earned $52,688 less than public sector employees, and private sector employees earned an average of $56,350, then shouldn't the average public sector employee be earning $56,350 + $52,688, or $109,038, not $84,153?
I am not trying to be a sheep. I am just trying to bring some realism into the subject. Your facts are correct but we are not in 1890 anymore. Now more then ever businesses are intertwined with government and it is next to impossible to split them up.
That is the most ignorant, anti-free market thing I think I have ever seen posted by a FReeper... though, I guess I can spew a doozy here and there myself.
Think of all the federal government workers whose jobs are based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who pass unconstitutional bills which create likewise unconstitutional federal jobs as well.
“Now more then ever businesses are intertwined with government and it is next to impossible to split them up.”
And that is the problem, not the solution.
You have some pretty liberal ideas there, nappy. You want everyone to make as much as a CEO to level the field instead of reducing government salaries- you are falling for Coward-Piven’s plan.
“pgr: To save the American people, the US Government needs to go bankrupt.
nappy: Dumb. As soon as that happens the entire private sector dies too. You really think that is the right way to go? “
Yes. We are too far along with the Coward-Piven plan, with more people dependent upon the government whether it’s freebies or jobs, education is dumbed down so people can’t think and only the older folks remember the Constitution and founding fathers- a total reset is the only chance, to rebuild from the ground up using the Constitution as written.
“Why should I feel remorse that the Fed Gov paid me (except when I was furloughed (laid off), and got a retirement?”
You have no concept of what it takes from the real world to pay for you. You can’t possibly understand. There are thousands like you who transition from one government check to another.
Except I didn’t. Five years in the private sector taught me that companies are less moral, dishonest generally, and more than willing to suckle at the government teat than any individual I ever worked with in the DoD or DoE.
TC
Good grief. Too bad every American wasn’t as morally grounded as you. We’d all be working for the government and everything would be swell.
Hear that, taxpayers, you immoral saps?
Government employment is a high moral calling. Just like our Marxist president says it is.
So that’s the sum of your argument? Ad Hominem attacks with no hard facts? There’s a word for that.
TC
Something is clearly wrong with those numbers. If one employer were actually paying anywhere near 78 percent more than everybody else, then nobody else would be able to hire anybody.
Thank you for your service.
“There’s a word for that.”
...and it’s not “Ad Hominem”
That makes even less sense than your previous posts. Please tell me you’re drunk..
TC
“That makes even less sense than your previous posts. Please tell me you’re drunk..”
‘fraid not. You and I will never agree on what makes sense given how we’ve chosen to make a living. I pay taxes, you consume them. We can never ever see things the same.
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