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Originally Posted by rubecube
There are alternatives to reducing the public sector staff expenses other than cuts though, and the easiest path is through attrition. Privatization is also generally a terrible road to go down with most in-house duties performed by government workers. There are some exceptions to the rule, but there are times when redundancy and red tape necessary and private corporations often don't give a crap about such things when trying to boost profits and appease shareholders.
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Fair enough, but I think we're past the point of simple attrition. I don't agree with you on the privitization side of things, I don't believe that the government should be in the business of doing laundry, or cleaning floors, or running a logistical organization, or even running their own IT Infrastructure, when there are private organizations that are specialized in these areas and can probably do it better and cheaper. And again no I'm not talking anything front line.
And to be honest a lot of the blame has to be put on the voters, because we need to start treating the government like we're shareholders and making sure that we're extremely demanding on how they're spending our money and running Our business so to speak. You can bet that a voting shareholder would do better due dilligance in replacing a board other then this other guy has to be better because he's not this guy.
And private corporations that run with redundancies and don't make a profit or break even die, its that simple. The government for some reasons thinks it has a right to be poorly run, have no vision, and execute their tasks poorly and then have a right to pass the costs onto the tax payer without over sight.