Posted on 12/29/2009 12:26:17 PM PST by Bokababe
Data from the Rasmussen Consumer Index from the past seven days shows that a plurality of government workers think the economy is getting better while those who work in the private sector tend to have the opposite view. Those in the government sector are also more upbeat about the current state of the economy and their own personal finances.
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It’s kind of a no-brainer. The government sector has secure jobs and is isolated (for the most part) from the chaos that the private sector is going through.
There is never a recession in Washington DC.
I’m a government worker and I’m not optimistic about this administration and the direction our country is headed...
Not at all surprising, really. Government workers’ jobs are secure and their salaries are rising. Private sector workers jobs are ever at risk and their salaries are shrinking.
Fewer people paying taxes
Numbers of government workers growing
Government worker salaries rising
More and more people depend on the government.
It’s no accident. It’s no coincidence. It’s designed.
The word “sustainability” never enters their minds.
I guess people think that people will magically continue to pay taxes to fund their jobs even after there is no more private sector.
For the most part, government workers get paid more, have guaranteed pensions and medical coverage, and don’t fear getting laid off.
That may be coming to an end, with many municipalities and states on the verge of bankruptcy. But the politicians will screw everyone else first, as long as they possibly can.
And when they no longer can, that means that the whole system has collapsed.
Government workers both giving and getting bribes.
RE: “It’s kind of a no-brainer. The government sector has secure jobs and is isolated (for the most part) from the chaos that the private sector is going through.”
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In some ways it’s like academia — the majority of professors and such have NEVER had any clue about the real world. This has been true for many decades.
A relative of mine is a professor (engineering) at a highly ranked university in the east. He is a conservative, one of the few, and says there is absolutely no comparison between working in private industry and in academia. Academics don’t get it re ‘real life;’ never will.
Excellent point.
Academics live in a world of theory, not actual practice. Too bad that’s who we have running our country right now.
RE: “Someone needs to tell the government workers that the private sector workers are the ones paying their salaries.”
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Absolutely correct! And whenever I am forced to deal with a government worker at any level who is giving me attitude or grief, I remind them clearly that I am paying them and that they work for me!
Yeah, they didn't ask me either. I wonder who ended up getting surveyed?
I could have given them an earful about my husband going on one year of unemployment. My job may be secure, but his sure wasn't.
Their own personal finances???
OF COURSE NOT!! They all got a blanket 2% raise on their already bloated salaries.
Myself and 40 million other Soc Sec recipients who have worked for over 50 years got ZERO from the BIG ZERO in the Oval office.
The entire area of Washington DC needs to be flattened and started over. Maybe in Wichita.
That is exactly right. I told the story here a few weeks ago about a girl in my daughter’s class at school who had brought in a can for the can drive a day late to get five points extra credit on the final exam. The teacher rolled her eyes when the girl muttered that her mom didn’t get paid until the day before and said “Everyone has extra food in their cabinets!” The area I’m in has been especially devestated due to factories that have been here since the civil war moving to Brazil. 14 factories with tens of thousands of workers relying on them. Now folks are beating each other up for whatever scrap job they can find or lose their homes to move (because they sure aren’t selling) and this idiot teacher gets her paycheck every week and is completely clueless about what is going on. My daughter said she physically wanted to hit that teacher for making that girl feel worse than she did.
I was with you right up to there.
A relative of mine is a professor (engineering) at a highly ranked university in the east. He is a conservative, one of the few, and says there is absolutely no comparison between working in private industry and in academia. Academics don’t get it re ‘real life;’ never will."
Reminds me of a great line from the movie Ghostbusters.
Dr Ray Stantz: "Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*."
I had a friend in Guatemala, and in her opinion, the only secure job (especially for the head of family) was a government job.
The day of reckoning is unavoidable and near!
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