Quote Originally Posted by tmckay2 View Post
Not really. I worked in both private and public sectors in the same field. Private sector wouldn't really be worse, just shift the cost to a different party. I wouldn't say in my field I've had more deadbeats in government than in the private sector. It's about the same. But its a professional field. On the other hand it was at least plausible to fire people in the private sector, albeit not nearly as easy as people would think.
That is an honest answer.

Those are the programs that should be cut.

If a private company can do whatever a particular government department is doing, better and more efficiently, that department should be closed.

Within reason and of course there as exceptions, but governments are not supposed to be lifetime job creators. Leave job creation to the private sector where merit and initiative are more highly valued and rewarded.