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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Thats 2 examples....not one....2 different subs.

I have worked on projects w/ 4 different shipyards, Portsmouth, Puget Sound, Norfolk and Pearl Harbor

TDF if you don't think that there are a higher percentage of sloths in the public sector than in the private sector, that's your right to believe. But your 2 examples don't disprove what Johnny is saying, there are always exceptions.

In my opinion, many people go into the public sector precisely becaus ethey don't want to have to struggle to keep their jobs, like most folks have to do in the private sector. Obvious exceptios for military.

Remember that poor school district in Rhode Island (can't remember the name of the town) where the mayor at one point fired all the teachers? The school was clearly failing, the administrators asked the teachers to give up one lunch period a week to work with at-risk kids, and the teachers refused to do it unless they were compensated.

In my hometown (West Haven, CT), the principal of a middle school asked teachers to look into the hallway during the 5 minute break between periods, because there had been fights. When the union heard of this, they sent letters to the teachers telling them to refuse, because their contract did not include compensation for work done between classes.

That's precisely how I view public unionized labor. And that ethic (or lack thereof) doesn't fly in the real world. It just doesn't.

No generalization applies 100% of the time. But I'm comfortable saying that people work much, much harder in the private sector. Not counting my time in the USMC...