We are a short time away from the following pledge to be standard hiring practice for the government.
By accepting this Federal Job, I promise to vote Democratic in all State, Local and Federal elections, so help me G_D.
As USA Today put it in a recent report, some federal workers and congressional staff will be protected from higher interest rates on student debt given the desire among federal lawmakers “to make government jobs more appealing to job candidates who would earn more in the private sector.” There’s so much wrong with the latter that it’s hard to know where to begin. Suffice it to say, efforts to make government work more desirable do major damage to basic economics. […]
So lawmakers voted their staffs and other federal workers sweetheart loan deals on the backs of taxpayers? This vandalizes basic economics simply because the low-risk, negative value-added work of the modern federal government is supposed to be undesirable. Adding insult to injury, the latter has occurred in concert with federal pay that increasingly dwarfs that enjoyed in the private sector despite the truth that a federal job remains the closest thing to ‘lifetime appointment’ that exists in our uncertain world.
It’s bad enough news that student loan debt provided by taxpayers is rising. But truly bothersome is that politicians (they should be required to acknowledge how they voted) have in typical fashion ensured that a national problem won’t impact their own, let alone their ability to attract workers to increasingly serve their needs, as opposed to those of the U.S. taxpayer.