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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]We need to start treating government departments like private companies[/b]. They have x tasks to do in whatever certain time with y money to do it. Someone in charge of the department. If it’s not done, they get fired until someone is competent enough to lead that department. Of course you’d need to give them the power to fire people for low performance, not just egregious offenses the way it is now. Private citizens are fired at will for low performance and it should be the same for government employees.[/quote]

This will never work because private businesses and government agencies serve entirely different purposes.

The government can’t just do a cost/benefit analysis and cut stuff like SSI and Medicare that requires a lot of resources and by definition will never be profitable. And we can’t just easily reallocate resources to whatever “priority” is du jour.

Yes we can (and do) have goals and metrics employees are expected to meet, but agencies don’t get to choose their own goals, budget, and timelines so you end up with a bunch of people being told to “do more with less.” The job protections are supposed to be here to help offset some of this.

Could it use tweaks? Sure. But it should be done thoughtfully with input from people who actually understand the public sector, not private sector billionaires who have no understanding of workloads that do not involve profit.[/quote]

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