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So labor should just take whatever management and politicians feel like giving them like obedient little servants? When they're public servants, yes. Do we fe
by LordKano 11y ago
So labor should just take whatever management and politicians feel like giving them like obedient little servants?
When they're public servants, yes.
Do we feel that the civil service is sufficiently isolated from rapidly changing political pressures to ensure the rights of workers and to avoid the inherent issues involved in political control of a large group of government workers?
Why is that the goal? A shift in public attitude should result in a change in public servant staffing and behavior.
- panzagl 11y agoBecause you don't want someone clearing out the FDA, FAA, or whatever when they're elected and making their third cousin an air traffic controller because he's too drunk to keep his current job at Denny's
- LordKano 11y agoYou're right, I don't want any of that. It's not going to happen because it would be career suicide.
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- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoTell it to James Garfield.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> > Do we feel that the civil service is sufficiently isolated from rapidly changing political pressures to ensure the rights of workers and to avoid the inherent issues involved in political control of a large group of government workers? > Why is that the goal? The reason it became the goal is that there was a time when it wasn't, and people saw what that became once the people in power realized what it enabled them to do, and said, "Hey, that sucks, we should stop that." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system