Comments on: Life In The Oink Sector Revisited

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:20:23 +0000

Private sector provides a better product than the public version sayeth Messiah Barack Obama:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR2010092701766.html?hpid=topnews

And the Sidwell Friends teachers probably don’t belong to a Union!!

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:06:08 +0000

The subways in New York were privately built (for low cost) and operated and once fired a worker named John Hylan. Well, in the spirit of “Don’t Get Mad, Get Even” – Hylan wound up being mayor and building public lines literally under the private lines, driving and regulating them into bankruptcy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Hylan

Keep in mind that he generally did not build the public IND lines in new, unserved population areas but right underneath the private lines! (Nasty stinker that he was)

I guess his only saving grace was he was an opponent of the Federal Reserve system.

By: Michael Scott

Michael Scott — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:34:32 +0000

About that “lingering” book: Any information on an e-format? How about a Barnes & Noble e-format?

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:32:58 +0000

The civil service boondoggle has long been a fact of life. As the liberal mind set has set in we have grown government at an alarming rate. It’s so big now it has taken a life of it’s own and I dont see how any govertment officials will be able to successfully shrink it. Assuming they actually try to shrink it.

By: Sam2

Sam2 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:05:11 +0000

Ilana, I know this is a bit off-topic, but what is the mortality rate for soldiers on active duty?