ss55 said: (quoted from post at 18:14:40 07/28/14) PJH,
That does seem to be a common theme this year, "Close everything that I don't use or benefit from".
I suppose the next step will be sell off all government assets to private companies and privatize all government services. Somehow I doubt that the Wall Street and Enron types would do a better job of providing least cost services to rural areas than our locally elected officials are doing now. But we won't know for sure until we try it.
Friend, I got elected to local office last fall. In that short time, 7 months now, I've found out just how "efficient" and "least cost" gov't is. Let's put it this way, for every attempt we make to lower costs, there's a rule, regulation or union blocking our efforts. For instance, instead of taking a Motor Equipment Operator and having him flag traffic we thought it would make a lot more sense to hire a part time guy, most likely a retired member of our community, to flag. We thought instead of having a MEO mowing lawns at our local cemeteries that hiring a part timer, most likely a young kid or 2 from our community, would make sense. In both cases we were blocked because the law says any employee working 20 or more hours PER MONTH, not week but MONTH, has to be considered full time and is due all benefits and pay. Do you think that would fly in private industry?
You have a lot more faith in the ability of gov't to provide least cost anything than I do.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 16:45:08 07/28/14.
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