Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Nurses, teachers, firefighters, police -- all are getting the short end of
>the stick.
Since they're all (except some nurses) government employees, what's the best
solution?
- Put it to a popular vote - but these typically get defeated or are for
miniscule funding increases - especially if they were a 200% raise of the
sort we're saying these people should get.
- Let it work its way through a legislative process - but people complain
about higher taxes, so this is a unlikely to happen.
- Have a benevolent dictator (for now) decrees they all get pay raises?
- Put out a collection hat.
- Privatize these industries; the government can be the client if necessary.
- Others?
My dad's a teacher, and was our sole source of income growing up. Every few
years they'd threaten to strike, and they'd continue to get screwed. Alas,
teaching is one of those things that people take for granted and thus
undervalue. Privatizing it entirely has many other issues, but I think the
teachers would perhaps be better off.
I'm baffled by discussions which point out how large corporations "can't be
trusted" or act only in their own self interests. Well, yes - but if you
don't trust *anyone*, at least you can rely on everyone to be greedy. I
don't trust governments to behave competently; I can easily believe that one
million employees each do a competent job and be working towards widely
shared ideals, but the collective whole acts in somewhat monstrous ways.
Joshua
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