“I had never considered leaving federal service,” she told The Huffington Post. “But I have student loans to pay back. I want to buy a house. I want a life that doesn’t include biannual panic attacks over arbitrarily losing my job. So you asked if I’m considering leaving public service. In this climate, I ask you: How could I consider staying?”
Let’s answer these one by one.
1. Whose fault is it you mortgaged your life to the bank because you were too proud to look for a husband? It isn’t ours.
2a. The banks don’t own their head offices. Who told you you have to own a house? Your sister-in-law the real estate agent?
2b. And why? To impress the girls you looked down on in high school because they believed in God and their fathers worked for a living?
3. Who doesn’t want a life like that? In a world governed by people determined to make what was physically possible and morally right financially possible, your husband would receive a national dividend perfectly sufficient for any family to live on modestly but well, come what might. Neither you nor your children would ever know want through no fault of your own.
Edit: Wall of text deleted. Get your own blog.
What the hell was that?
Hummmmmmm….you had better check with your Doc about those meds you’re taking,Dick.Sounds like an overdose.
the slathering DICK screws his non existant image again
as to the piece in the HUFF, it doesn’t identify many of the “components” needed for an honest analysis, what education, how much does the poor dear make, or what benefits does sweety get, all emotion, no facts!!!
The Dear may find she can’t get a job because her gubmint experience is useless to anyone else.
Why would you consider staying? Because like most civil servants (what an oxymoron) you probably cannot keep a job in the private sector. You have to be productive,
would you like some merlot or cabernet to go with your other wine?
If you take refuge with “the beast” you become privy to its foul temperment.
I suspect many civil servants will become the brunt of the beast’s vile nature as government become more corrupt and more desperate to shake the last few pennies out of a dying economy. Next uo is the public sector liabilities – the pension plan funds the beast has been salivating over as its food supply dwindles.
Forgive me for the excessive length. I’ve seen cheek from the pampered class before, but the Huffington Post’s source took even my breath away.
Not that that’s any excuse. No, this isn’t my blog.
I’ll cheerfully stand by the edited version of my remarks.
If I were in a position to hire people for business management, and I am not, I would do better hiring down at the needle exchange than hiring former civil servants.
When you talk to a civil servant most of the conversation centers around how much work they do and the poor conditions that they do it in. In their opinion all their jobs are ‘essential’ and the vast majority of taxpayers are pretty ignorant. When I suggest there has to be limits to what a society can spend there is tacit agreement but that is fleeting. It is always some else who has to sacrifice.
Looks like the “jig is up” for the more ambitious coattails in the bureaucracy. The opportunity to rise even further up the safe employment ladder by providing ways to find more taxpayer funded (kingdoms) will be limited in the future.
The ambitious have to choose between sitting and rusting away in a standard paper circle employment covering scam until attrition removes the job position or returning to their parents basement and waiting for their parents to die. Cheers!
Hopefully now that Obama’s out of work again, the country can get back to work, even if it’s temporarily.
The reason she would never consider leaving Federal Service is that if you work for the government, and you make token payments on your Student Loans for ten years, the rest of the loan gets forgiven at the end. http://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/charts/public-service
Edit: ‘loans’ fell into the spam trap
Perhaps there is something to learn from this article. If we were to orchestrate a government shutdown in Canada, and encourage the out of work silly servants to leave and search for a job in the private sector (which damned few of them could actually get), we could reduce the size of govt here in one easy stroke, saving billions (salaries, benefits, pensions, and the costs they incur with developing and “managing” programs we neither need nor want).