I wish freepers sometimes would stop being dogmatic and step back and think. I develop much of my philosophy while I was in the military. Many of the people dynamics apply in everyday situations. Many freepers brag how they can change jobs and be so dynamic with every situation every so many years as practiced in modern labor. When you are young and have no family not so bad to have so much change. But try having a steady income, steady environment to raise a family, and all this accelerated career pathway becomes a major stress and destroys a stable environment for one to raise a family a basic unit of society. If a commander goes out of his way to stress the men in his unit needlessly, that unit will soon become useless or worst rebellious. Corporate America and their small chosen inner circle does not care. Workers, staff and etc are treated no differently then used condoms. All this will have an affect on society as workers become less and less dedicated and more resentful. Contrast the yuppy era with the off shoring of job era. At least the yuppies were willing to put 100 plus percent into their jobs because of good pay and reward. Unfortunately many became victims of off shoring of jobs and by the time they reached their fifties they made less money then a counterpart who graduated the same year and worked in the federal government (starting at a lower salary but accumulated steadily under continuous employment). That is pretty bad because in the past a side by side comparison, the private worker always had a larger salary then gov counterpart. Ever since the US embarked on free trade and globalism, gov workers now make more then private counterparts. Gov worker conditions never changed since the 1970’s, but the private workers benefits and salary increases did. Freepers keep screaming that fed workers make more then private. Fed salaries kept up with COLA and benefits formulas were the same for many decades. The fed worker did not make more then private, rather it was private workers who were deprived of raises that made them lag behind in the late 1990’s onward when free trade and globalism was the new economic model for private workers.
Good points. The Yuppies just became too expensive compared to Asian labor. The government workers that still have their jobs are laughing all the way to the bank, but those that have been laid off will probably never work again; they have experience nobody wants/needs, and the decline in salary/benefits would be difficult for them (not that I care). Rather than get laid off and lose their homes and have their families on welfare, too many young Americans have simply stopped having children and buying the homes to house them. In response, the government lets in a flood of illegals to keep schools (and whole towns) open, while preventing the expected rise in wages caused by a shortage of labor.
Government workers were artificially protected from the forces at work that drove our standard of living into the toilet; now the chickens have come home to roost as the costs of those lavish benefits cause mass layoffs in government jobs. Right now NJ has thousands of unemployed policemen and untenured teachers who probably won’t find work in this state for years to come (while the surviving police and teachers are paid more than the serfs they supposedly work for).