Hmmmmm.....I worked early in my life for the Government. The Feds. Left that for something more lucrative and with less red tape. Every single Govt branch/organization (all three of them) I worked for was incredibly wasteful, inefficient, and SLOW.
Then I worked in the University system. THEY treat you like a slave. No thanks. No income. Good benefits tho. It was run much like the Government....maybe because much time is spent on doing things to meet the Govt specs/regulations? And once again...the waste of money and precious time...due to Govt regs and absurd amounts of red tape. Teaching and research University hospitals must follow Govt regulations if they're to get research funding.
I finally woke up and went into the private sector. What a breath of fresh air. Things moved quickly and overall, efficiently. They exist to make a profit. They don't tolerate "slackers", and they reward achievement with salary and benefit increases. If you wanted to work in the industries I worked in, you could expect to work your "butt" off. No Monday - Friday, 9-5 job. I worked 60+ hrs a week...every week... with NO overtime. I was in Sales, then Management. Neither gets "overtime".
I did it because I wanted my children to have a good education, a nice neighborhood to live in, and the knowledge that they too would have a chance at furthering their educations, and bettering their lives. At least they would have a chance, and options. If I had stayed with either the Govt or the University system, their choices would be much more limited due to my lower (MUCH lower) income.
And, I did it because I LIKED it! I enjoy the competitiveness and the creativity of a free market. It's exhilirating, exciting, and fun. Neither working for the Govt nor Hopkins was any of those things.
Govt gave me nothing but boredom and an easy paycheck. It was demoralizing...and everyone I worked with just put in their 9-5 (or 8:30 - 4:30) and couldn't wait to get the "hell out of Dodge". There was no incentive to be fast, efficient, or excel. Everybody knew their job was set for life, as long as they showed up fairly routinely. The drudgery was depressing. I never met a Govt employee who LOVED their job. They all loved the "security" of the job tho.
For a time, I was a single parent. My children's future was up to me. Government pay wasn't going to do a thing for me except put ME in the poorhouse, and Hopkins wasn't much better. I couldn't use my creativity or abilities in a Govt system. The free-market system allowed me to do that, and to excel.
The label of "bias" is kind of a cop-out. People have different views, they see things from different perspectives. It's a human condition, we are just people and enjoy the right to disagree.
I agree. I used it in response to Mark's use of the word "unbiased".
Ah... the "balanced" code word - that's the one FOX news uses to mean "right wing."
And no..."balanced" is balanced. Balanced political news (both right, left and in the middle) is something I feel all media should strive for, and IMO, they're all falling short of that mark...no matter which media outlet to which we're referring.
And by the quote, I feel that you have the impression I'm "right" wing? I'm a fiscal conservative, yet I am not a social conservative. So I'm not very right wing. Or at least the right doesn't think so. I'm a moderate. One of those types that both the extreme right and the extreme left don't like much.
Mark...I think these things have been discussed, repeatedly, in other threads. If you honestly want me to revisit them, I will, but not tonight. It's late.
ina n HB n Kesa
