Public servants and "needed" raises

One of my favorite arguments about why public employee executives deserve raises is that they are highly sought after by the private sector and without raises we can't keep such "great" people. This is really crap and an aristocratic, ridiculous argument. These jobs are highly sought after by very qualified people, and quite often it's more about who you know rather than about what you know that gets you one of these jobs. Once entrenched in their own worlds and fiefdoms, they argue about how the system is so lucky to have them pushing paper when they might push paper somewhere else for much more money. I say let them pursue that outside, private job and save these jobs for the people who keep trying to enter the public sector of government jobs but are constantly looked over because they're not already part of the establishment.

Stumble It!