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Name:   4691 The author of this post is registered as a member - Email Member
Subject:   Don't blame Hound --- I don't
Date:   12/13/2009 9:33:02 PM

Back to the my original question about the worth of a government worker versus the private sector worker. I mean this from a purely financial perspective with no attack on the generalized characterization of either worker. I asked this because this thread pointed out the $71K average salary of the government worker. Add the $26K average benefits packsage (from an earlier article compared to ~$12 for a priviate sector worker if I recall correctly), so now we are paying on average ~$97K per year per worker. This may very well mean that the best jobs in our encomony are in the government. Is this a milestone on the path to socialism? The government ranks and salaries swell all the while the private sector shrinks and suffers reduced wages and benefits. Even if you believe in the Keynesian economic theory and the multiplication effect of large government spending, without the private sector, the number of rounds is not self-sustaining. The government will simply go broke, probably with spiraling inflation caused by contining to print more money as their supply depletes. In the end it is only the government revenue generated from the private sector that allows the cycle to continue. So even in the big government model I believe it is the private sector which is more important than the govenment. Yet our current economic reward system has now clearly chosen the government worker as the most valuable. The irony, as I pointed out somewhere back in this thread, is that it is the private sector worker that pays for it; literally. Just FYI - I don't buy fully into the Keynesian economic theory but it makes for good discussion based on the current Administration and Congress approach that we can tax and spend our way out of debt.
My apologies for the long post...
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Avg Fed Pay $71K - MartiniMan - 12/11/2009 9:12:15 AM
     Avg Fed Pay $71K - au67 - 12/11/2009 10:28:04 AM
     Avg Fed Pay $71K - au67 - 12/11/2009 10:30:30 AM
          Avg Fed Pay $71K - Yankee06 - 12/11/2009 11:59:54 AM
               Avg Fed Pay $71K - GoneFishin - 12/11/2009 1:04:45 PM
                    Avg Fed Pay $71K - Yankee06 - 12/11/2009 1:35:20 PM
                         Yankee - GoneFishin - 12/11/2009 2:51:31 PM
                    GF - Talullahhound - 12/11/2009 4:08:02 PM
               Avg Fed Pay $71K - Talullahhound - 12/11/2009 4:19:53 PM
     Avg Fed Pay $71K - Talullahhound - 12/11/2009 4:28:04 PM
     Avg Fed Pay $71K - au67 - 12/11/2009 4:30:20 PM
          Avg Fed Pay $71K - Talullahhound - 12/11/2009 4:36:03 PM
               Avg Fed Pay $71K - Yankee06 - 12/11/2009 5:01:13 PM
     Missing the point guys. - alahusker - 12/11/2009 5:16:40 PM
          Hound - GoneFishin - 12/11/2009 5:47:49 PM
          Missing the point guys. - Yankee06 - 12/11/2009 6:06:32 PM
          Missing the point guys. - Talullahhound - 12/11/2009 7:48:49 PM
               Missing the point guys. - au67 - 12/11/2009 8:42:28 PM
                    Missing the point guys. - alahusker - 12/11/2009 9:23:01 PM
               And actually, - alahusker - 12/11/2009 9:25:27 PM
                    And actually, - Talullahhound - 12/11/2009 9:49:05 PM
                         Whoa - MrHodja - 12/12/2009 8:30:42 AM
                              Whoa - Talullahhound - 12/12/2009 8:50:09 AM
                                   Whoa - MrHodja - 12/12/2009 8:54:19 AM
                                   Whoa - MrHodja - 12/12/2009 8:59:01 AM
                                        Whoa - Talullahhound - 12/12/2009 9:58:59 AM
                         Spoken.... - Lifer - 12/14/2009 12:45:02 PM
               Actually, - alahusker - 12/11/2009 9:39:55 PM
               Missing the point guys. - 4691 - 12/12/2009 10:23:50 AM
                    Missing the point guys. - Barneget - 12/12/2009 2:54:30 PM
                    Missing the point guys. - Talullahhound - 12/12/2009 2:56:32 PM
                         Self reliance - alahusker - 12/12/2009 7:40:22 PM
                    Oh and BTW - Talullahhound - 12/12/2009 3:01:28 PM
                         Oh and BTW - Barneget - 12/12/2009 3:21:27 PM
                         Oh and BTW - 4691 - 12/13/2009 3:57:16 PM
               Don't blame Hound - MartiniMan - 12/13/2009 4:14:03 PM
                    Don't blame Hound - MrHodja - 12/13/2009 4:36:12 PM
                         Don't blame Hound - MartiniMan - 12/13/2009 6:11:51 PM
                              Don't blame Hound - MrHodja - 12/13/2009 6:45:41 PM
                                   Don't blame Hound - Talullahhound - 12/13/2009 8:24:19 PM
                                        Don't blame Hound - 4691 - 12/13/2009 8:39:48 PM
                                             Don't blame Hound --- I don't - 4691 - 12/13/2009 9:33:02 PM
                                                  Don't blame Hound --- I don't - MartiniMan - 12/13/2009 10:17:51 PM
                                        My, my but arent you cranky - MartiniMan - 12/13/2009 10:10:51 PM
                                             My, my but arent you cranky - Talullahhound - 12/14/2009 8:36:03 AM
                                                  My, my but arent you cranky - MartiniMan - 12/14/2009 8:52:06 AM
                                                       MM - Talullahhound - 12/14/2009 9:42:49 AM
                                                            MM - MartiniMan - 12/14/2009 12:02:51 PM
                                                                 MM - Talullahhound - 12/14/2009 5:14:06 PM
                                                                      Well said - MartiniMan - 12/14/2009 5:30:08 PM
                                                                           I agree - Talullahhound - 12/14/2009 9:44:38 PM
                                                            I'm a worried optimist.. - alahusker - 12/14/2009 5:17:25 PM
                                                                 I'm a worried optimist.. - Talullahhound - 12/14/2009 9:35:21 PM
                                                                      Hound, you are a confident - alahusker - 12/14/2009 10:14:09 PM
                                                                           Yup! - Talullahhound - 12/15/2009 8:28:42 AM
                                                                                Yup! - MrHodja - 12/15/2009 8:36:08 AM
                                                                                Yup! - MrHodja - 12/15/2009 8:36:12 AM
                                                                                !@#$ - MrHodja - 12/15/2009 8:39:42 AM
                                                                                     !@#$ - Talullahhound - 12/15/2009 2:46:59 PM
                                                                                          !@#$ - MrHodja - 12/15/2009 4:53:07 PM
                                                                                          Hound, - alahusker - 12/15/2009 6:29:22 PM
                                                                                               Hound, - Talullahhound - 12/15/2009 10:23:04 PM
                                                                                                    Hound, - MrHodja - 12/16/2009 12:11:23 AM
                                                                                                         NMCC - alahusker - 12/16/2009 12:20:02 PM
                                                       My, my but arent you cranky - MrHodja - 12/14/2009 9:57:11 AM
                                   Let's cool it. - alahusker - 12/13/2009 10:07:59 PM


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