"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.
Again, this is the path to an economic and political condition referred to by experts as "France".
Students and their parents in France dream that their kids will test well enough to get permanent high paying low stress early retiring great-benefits government jobs.
This comes about through the expansion of government and particularly with the growth of union power in government. The more bankrupt cities, counties, and states in the US are examples of this kind of creep here.
Talk about "public service" as some kind of higher calling is to be taken with a bag of rock salt, when it gets to the point that everyone knows how cushy government jobs have become.
So in France the emphasis is on attracting the best and the brightest, which is determined a set of tests called the "concours", which you pass or fail early in life. If you don't do well, you are doomed to lifelong suffering in the "precarious" private sector.
Curiously, the government punishes private entities for acts that increase the "precarity" of private sector jobs(such as firing people), as if the high taxes and piles of regulations weren't enough. And they wonder why unemployment and "inactivity" rates are so high in France.
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"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
We can ALL work for the state!
Death to the private sector!
Funny how democrats have no idea that the private sector pays for the public sector.
Again, this is the path to an economic and political condition referred to by experts as "France".
Students and their parents in France dream that their kids will test well enough to get permanent high paying low stress early retiring great-benefits government jobs.
This comes about through the expansion of government and particularly with the growth of union power in government. The more bankrupt cities, counties, and states in the US are examples of this kind of creep here.
Talk about "public service" as some kind of higher calling is to be taken with a bag of rock salt, when it gets to the point that everyone knows how cushy government jobs have become.
So in France the emphasis is on attracting the best and the brightest, which is determined a set of tests called the "concours", which you pass or fail early in life. If you don't do well, you are doomed to lifelong suffering in the "precarious" private sector.
Curiously, the government punishes private entities for acts that increase the "precarity" of private sector jobs(such as firing people), as if the high taxes and piles of regulations weren't enough. And they wonder why unemployment and "inactivity" rates are so high in France.
Good on North Jersey. I see they have three counties on the list. AFAIK, those aren't gubmint jobs.
Douglas County is the other one outside of the beltway. That's the suburbs between Denver & Colorado Springs. Yup, defense contractors.
“I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half"
~Jay Gould
A great quote to reinforce a sense of solidarity among the working class. But federal employees have more in common with Gould than the working class.
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