what the hell are so many people doing in public sector jobs to begin with? It should be one quarter of the number it is.
Government is not normally constrained by productivity, and in flush times, is wont to hire far in excess of actual numbers of slots that are essential to be filled, by creating a number of “training” or “apprenticeship” openings, originally described as temporary, but over time, tend to become a permanent fixture. Suddenly, faced with a major shortfall of cash flow to pay for all these invented job slots, the organizational charts are examined a little more closely, and the supernumerary slots are sloughed off. As these have been disproportionately filled with “affirmative action” hires, the effect of last hired, first fired, practices hits with devastating impact.
This is the system that has worked so very well for unionized labor for, well, decades, if not centuries. Are you going to rile up the union people to protect a few junior employees?
Blacks get these government jobs and then only hire blacks.
VA and so many other jobs are far more black than white.
NAACP?
I thought maybe the biggest racist employer was the NBA.
GOVERNMENT is the ALBATROSS holding back REAL JOBS and the economy.... only an idiot would bring profits to a country that taxes at the 35-40% rate.... the highest in the WORLD
90% of government jobs are USELESS make work and red tape...
D and F students inhabit govt jobs.....making the rest suffer and carry the load of GLORIFIED WELFARE aka “govt job”
I know this is a side issue rather than directly relevant to the thread, but I couldn't let it go by. I used to accept Maslow's hierarchy. It all looks so logical. But then I realized that during my military career I (and a lot of other people) had been in situations where accomplishing the mission was more important than survival. I no longer accept Maslow.