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Originally posted by Morgeruat:
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Originally posted by True_Moose:
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Originally posted by Morgeruat:
As my gov't teacher in High School said, governments are designed to spend money, not make it.
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Not always true. In the battle between the two big Canadian air carriers, the one that was a former Crown Corporation (Air Canada,) won out against Canadian Airlines, which was characterised by bungling and incompetence at many levels. Now, AC had been de-Crown(ed) but its superiority had been established long prior, and since privatisation, its problems have multiplied, its profits have tumbled, and its reputation has been circling the drain. [/QUOTE]Good point, I know in the US, government employees = very strong union that makes firing someone almost impossible and places someone with seniority into positions regardless of qualifications (here at carlisle barracks when the visual information department went to contractors many of the gov't employees "shifted" to lower skill level jobs, bumping those with less seniority, but potentially greater capability to do the work in question).
Essentially (at least in the US) most (but not necessarily all) government jobs are littered with bloat, unnecessary redundancy, and other forms of FWA (fraud waste and abuse), unfortunately due to unions and "nice" leaders trying to avoid putting people out of work, it continues (I don't think anyone in the VI department who didn't opt for retirement or hiring on with the contractors lost their government job). [/QUOTE]That may be because of differences between the two systems. It seems that in Canada, a Crown Corporation is sort of in that gray area between public and private - it competes on the open market, but assures Canadians of getting certain services the government wants to guarantee - this is assured by some level of funding in those particular areas
only. As such, the employees of the company aren't really government employees at all, and are still driven by profit incentives. This avoids many of the problems you have pointed out above.