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linklings, I like to move it move it edition | Favorite Home Remedies — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:03:13 +0000

[...] heading to the feds photo credit: ItzaFineDay I’ve noticed an interesting trend recently. The… [...]

By: fathersez

fathersez — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:43:55 +0000

Almost all my close college friends joined the Government after graduating. They get get holiday plans, education plans, cheap housing and car loans and cheap health facilities. And of course almost iron cald security.

The lower pay they start of with is nothing compared to the piles of advantages they get.

And if people are rushing for Government jobs now, its not surprising. After all the private sector is not exactly booming.

By: fathersez

fathersez — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:43:55 +0000

By: Layoffman Brothers

Layoffman Brothers — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:07:57 +0000

Landing a cushy government job has always been the aspiration of many upper class kids, it is just that now people are waking up to it. You get money, power, and fame all at once with minimal risk. Why do you think rich families children and rich people go run for offices after they've made their money?

Did you know that a prison nurse or fireman in California can make $200k/year? Cops can retire with $100k/year pension plans when they are 50?

By: bripblap

bripblap — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:51:30 +0000

@ERE: I have no idea what happened to the left margin – is anyone having trouble with the layout? I tweaked the column widths but not the total width of the layout, so I didn't think it would affect anything.

The US is turning into France if you of course mean France without universal health care and social benefits… we are getting the ugly parts without the good parts.

By: bripblap

bripblap — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:48:40 +0000

@Nabloid: I agree. I should be clear that I don't think that this move towards a nanny state is a positive development at all. The US system has always depended on a vital and growing private sector supported by the public sector – not the other way around, as is happening today.

By: Early Retirement Extreme

Early Retirement Extreme — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:18:09 +0000

Seems that the US is turning into France. Landing a cushy government job has been the aspiration of many French university graduate.

BTW what happened to the left margin?

By: Robert Nabloid

Robert Nabloid — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:09:30 +0000

I think this era of “everything is headed toward government” is the wrong direction… but I do see it happening. Every time something goes wrong, the people cry out to the politicians to fix all the problems… Then they get to vote themselves raises and increased benefits – it's no wonder government jobs are so sought after… They'll just raise the taxes if they need more money… they can just tell the people they'll tax those big bad rich people…

What made this country great was the people and their “can-do” attitude. Too bad it's being replaced with the “government, please-do save us, we need help” attitude.

By: bripblap

bripblap — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:56:44 +0000

@Curmudgeon: I guess the question would be whether the state and local jobs are going to be disappearing at a slower rate than private sector jobs, which certainly seems possible. In any case, it's really more anecdotal and mainly just interesting to hear people who were go-go-go about capitalism and the private sector thinking about jumping to public sector jobs, because it's not something you used to hear on Wall Street.

By: bubelah

bubelah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:02:05 +0000

Diversify! We always hear that you should not put all eggs in one basket, the same goes for jobs. My solution to the problem: one spouse works for the government and one is an enterpreneur, or works for private companies.