Billions for Billionaires and Zero for Workers

[GUBU]

People have interesting ideas about federal employment.  Beyond all that, though.... I have to ask..shouldn't we want federal (and state) employment to be attractive?  These are the people who administer our services, who maintain our infrastructure.

I'll never take a fed job again, personally, but I hope that their compensation packages remain competitive, though, because I depend on their labor.

I've worked a mixture of public and private over the years and the two jobs I've worked hardest in were both in the civil service because a) they were the jobs where I was most properly treated (when trying to become an accountant I was working a job paying me €700 a year over the dole) and b) jobs where I've actually been busy all the time.

A) is the most important because when you're paid well and treated properly you want to do a good job and keep doing it at that.