The Public Sector – America’s worst elements exploiting decent Americans’ Good Will

Intro

America’s worst elements gravitate towards the Public Sector (or just skip straight ahead to the welfare doles) in overwhelming disproportion. You can see this in the bloated salaries of the Washington, D.C. area as well as the more ‘modest’ teaching positions in in primary education. And don’t get me started on the subsidized professors at most of our nation’s universities.

It’s important to understand that for the majority of these people, were they to tossed into the private sector, would quickly have to come to grips with the reality that they are *just not as essential* as they think they are (remember the cry of: ‘Where would our kids be without teachers?’ – this is a common tactic that evades the outstanding issue). And they might even have to concede that they were overpaid (including pensions) and actually have to do productive work for the duration of their newfound job.

Public sector employees not performing up to par – using teachers as an example

For brevity’s sake and as evidence for these statements, I present the following on teachers:

1. On average in the United States there are 20+ applicants (often more like 30-40+) for each teaching job. What this tells is that there is a large pool for those looking to teach, and that we shouldn’t be raising prices here. Yes, I know – Liberals reject free market principles (at least tacitly) but this is more of an appeal to those industrious workers in the Private Sector who understand how things actually work in society. This isn’t Utopia, Liberals, and the present state of our reality constrains us from attaining your Unicorn Utopia dreams (as history has demonstrated in the past century).

2. Primary school teachers generally just aren’t very smart. I would argue that Professors typically lack real world experience and would essentially be useless for the most part in Private Sector organizations, but I can’t prove that. So, let’s focus on the fact that even for the primary school-level teachers that DO get hired, they are not performing up to par. Surveys of Chicago-area public school teachers, for instance, indicate that 30%+ can’t even pass basic aptitude tests for their respective positions.

Put together (1) and (2) above and what do we get? Well, the more devious, ‘clever’ liberal will conclude that it means teachers need to be paid more to attract Higher Quality Teachers. Unfortunately for them, that conclusion makes zero sense. If you know that there are around 20 +applicants per teaching position – a large number even compared to private sector positions – then raising wages is unlikely attract significantly more talent.

But we already knew all that. One need only deal with a mumbling, stumbling government employee over the phone or deal with the nightmare that is the DMV to realize Public Sector employees aren’t our nation’s best and brightest.

Yet that brings up the question: how can these people justify their *often* middle-to-Upper-middle class lifestyles? The answer is: They Can’t. They are merely using, to steal an idea from Libertarians, the authority of the state to gift them lifestyles they otherwise couldn’t attain in a merit-based environment (the Free Market).

Conclusion

Remember, these Public sector employees are supposed to be Public servants – and in aggregate they are failing at their jobs – particularly primary level teachers and the administrators who oversee them. Don’t let them pander to your decent sensibilities for increased wages in the name of “but our job is essential!” A lot of jobs are essential, and a lot, if not most, private sector jobs are much more difficult than the public sector.

Slash Public sector wages, cut pensions, and fire as many as the nation feasibly can. Let them sink or swim in the private sector (most will sink).

 

Give anyone in poverty 5 acres of land and a free bus ride there so long as they live on it as their primary residence for 5 years.

Abolish the bureaucracy. No replacement.

 

What has always amazed me in this country is that state workers or government employees can have unions which nobody bats an eye but the moment the working class within private businesses declare for asking the exact same thing everybody loses their minds.