FREE TO CHOOSE: It’s almost impossible to fire a civil servant
From Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose” (1980), Part VIII: “Who Protects the Worker?”
In January 1975, a typist in the Environmental Protection Agency was so consistently late for work that her supervisors demanded she be fired. It took 19 months to do it.
Granted, this show is almost 30 years old. But I’m willing to wager it’s only worse now.
[...] would be awesome to have a government which at least pretended to be subject to similar constraints as the private [...]
You can’t stop it. You can only hope to gain lifetime employment from it. at missourah.com
2 Feb 10 at 10:32 pm