At 09:06 AM 7/20/01 +0100 Andrew Crystall wrote:
>> Sometimes it IS the person that wants it. Are you suggesting forcing
>> those who don't want to do a job to do it? You obviously haven't seen
>> the half-a**ed quality of forced work.
>
>Oh? For the last 4 years, I've spend 2 days a week working of stuff
>I really don't like, but I do because it's my DUTY to do so, for the
>environmental organisation. Regardless of what I want, they needed
>me and my skills in data organisation, so I do that for them.
This, of course, is clearly opposed to all of the Federal Employees who
don't feel any sense of "duty" or "public service" whatsoever, but are
simply at their job for the large paycheck.
Hahahahahahaaaaa!
>> I would like to think that the people working in the government are
>> doing a job because they *like* it. Just like I hope the doctor
>> making life-or-death decisions about my health care is a doctor
>> because he felt a strong inner need to be a doctor, and is rewarded
>> beyond his paycheck.
>
>Ahh..I see your misconception. I am refering to senior civil service
>positions, and to them only.
And what exactly do you mean by "senior civil service" employees?
"I agree that how government workers are chosen is totally, frankly,
moronic and needs to be radically changed. "
>Firstly elections for..say 1/4 of the lower chamber every year.
>Keeps the politicians on their toes, and means they can't do
>unpopular things just after a big election and get away with it. It
>gives continuity and strenght to a government....
Shuffling the deck every year gives continuity?
Our politicians do unpopular things right after big elections now?
And I thought that you wouldn't want politicians doing things that are
popular among the sheep?
And wouldn't this increase the amount of pork and pandering?
>And yes, I do believe reprisentative democracy, as practiced today,
>is over-rated. It gives no long-term stability to policy,
And you reconcile this with the United States' continuous foreign policy
for the past 50 years how?
Also, is long-term stability of policy really your method of judging forms
of government?
JDG
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