[Don Corleone]

These days, private businesses large and small are actively looking for new employees, not, as is often the case, the other way around. Former government workers might not always be the best prospects but many had strong enough resumés to get their Washington jobs in the first place. All they really need is to be weaned of the bad habits gleaned by working in a bureaucracy

After the fall of the Soviet Union they found out how really unmotivated almost all Russian citizens were after years of suffering under a government workers bureaucracy.

[luv2ski]

I would be very happy to see a 10% across-the-board cut of the federal government. I do think the TSA and the Coast Guard should be funded through the shutdown. The local media are starting to run stories of food stamps running out. Whether the people actually need to food stamps or not is not the point, the news media will exploit the story to get everyone’s emotions riled up.

[sparklite2]

Soviet meme ...

We pretend to work and
they pretend to pay us.

[mewzilla]

The private sector won’t have employees who expect their employers to pay them for breathing....

I suspet that’s why so many bureaucrats are terrified of RIFting.