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    http://marbury.typepad.com/marbury/2...r-quality.html Would be interested (as the blogger is) to read the whole of this report to find out the intricacies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subterranean View Post
    http://marbury.typepad.com/marbury/2...r-quality.html Would be interested (as the blogger is) to read the whole of this report to find out the intricacies.
    Well the same should work for private sector folks too. A cut in your pay should make you find happiness in your work too.

    In the US, Public sector folks make 22% less than private sector counterparts, and yet there is serious talk about freezing Federal pay. This at the same time we are giving tax breaks to rich folks.
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    Apparently the GOP is preparing this propaganda wave to get people on the side of whittling down government. This whole economic malaise thing is a plot to scale back government. Granted it's not a real conspiracy, just a series of local conspiracies that just so happen to be very similar from country to country. (blame radical positivism a.k.a. arrogance).

    But it is working. The debt is growing, states are cutting back, and services are degrading in quality. And just look what's going on in the U.K., exactly the same thing.

    I heard about the March of CEOs to the White House today... really fucking pathetic. That just goes to show you how much American markets are in the grip of the very wealthy.

    Obama has been a total disappointment. That'll be the last time I vote for an SLI for president... the very last.

    I'm not going to vote for Obama in 2012. I'll vote in other races, but if he gets a 2nd term it'll be by someone else's vote than mine.

    What I find most degrading about Obama is that he doesn't remember where he came from. He's president now, an elite among elites, a person transplanted onto a plane of existence, with other such people who you see everywhere, but don't really care about. Just a thing to think about, no genuine emotional connection... just a symbol of history, culture, whatever. The problem is that unlike Clinton, Obama does real damage by not standing up for what is right. Clinton drew a line in the sand... he never dropped taxes by the slightest smidgen. The economy boomed anyway like it never had before and hasn't since. 3.9% unemployment... an environment so tough for HR people that the chief of the labor dept. wrote a book about it.

    That's the thing... Obama won't stand for us. I mean sure he'll stand for his health bill that is gonna rapidly become irrelevant as premiums soar without regulation... but for the things that actually bring prosperity and improved living? No, because the Republicans are gangsters. Oh please, that's just defeatism.

    Instead he's gonna try to prosecute this guy who stood up for the entire freakin' world just because he took advantage of the U.S.'s stupidity to do it.

    Obama's a head case and a half, but I've never yet heard of an EM self-conflictor who isn't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tcaudilllg View Post
    Apparently the GOP is preparing this propaganda wave to get people on the side of whittling down government. This whole economic malaise thing is a plot to scale back government. Granted it's not a real conspiracy, just a series of local conspiracies that just so happen to be very similar from country to country. (blame radical positivism a.k.a. arrogance).

    But it is working. The debt is growing, states are cutting back, and services are degrading in quality. And just look what's going on in the U.K., exactly the same thing.

    I heard about the March of CEOs to the White House today... really fucking pathetic. That just goes to show you how much American markets are in the grip of the very wealthy.

    Obama has been a total disappointment. That'll be the last time I vote for an SLI for president... the very last.

    I'm not going to vote for Obama in 2012. I'll vote in other races, but if he gets a 2nd term it'll be by someone else's vote than mine.
    Ditto. And I'll change my type.
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    This type of strategy has been studied extensively for quite a long time. High-tech and software companies have implemented a variant around 5 years ago, starting with google. The complete idea, however, wouldn't be to just cut the salary - there should be a part of compensation which is transferred to something which gives intrinsic motivation. For example, you can offert a lower salary and more flexible hours if you want to hire someone that will be more likely to be loyal towards your company (generally, this attract people that are slightly less ambitious and more coscentious). Or you can offer a lower salary but give each employee one day a week devoted to "creative" projects, in order to attract people that have a slant for innovation (this was the strategy applied by Google). Such strategies can be created on the basis of each Big-5 facets of personality, by combining incentives that tend to attract people with a high (low) score in each facet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tcaudilllg View Post
    Apparently the GOP is preparing this propaganda wave to get people on the side of whittling down government. This whole economic malaise thing is a plot to scale back government. Granted it's not a real conspiracy, just a series of local conspiracies that just so happen to be very similar from country to country. (blame radical positivism a.k.a. arrogance).

    But it is working. The debt is growing, states are cutting back, and services are degrading in quality. And just look what's going on in the U.K., exactly the same thing.
    While I don't really support the policy, the government in the UK is actually keeping the health budget at the same level at pre-2010 election levels. (I think it would be better for them to average the cuts across all areas).


    I agree with FDG that they should give people intrinsic benefits in exchange for cuts in salaries - even though it doesn't seem fair that people working for public bodies are seemingly paid less for work of the same quality to what people in the private sector are paid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subterranean View Post
    While I don't really support the policy, the government in the UK is actually keeping the health budget at the same level at pre-2010 election levels. (I think it would be better for them to average the cuts across all areas).


    I agree with FDG that they should give people intrinsic benefits in exchange for cuts in salaries - even though it doesn't seem fair that people working for public bodies are seemingly paid less for work of the same quality to what people in the private sector are paid.
    Well the U.K.'s health system has become a symbol of national pride. The public sector jobs are a political football... until a vision appears of something "more radical" for the Left to aim for, the conservatives won't stick up for them because those people are just in the middle.

    It seems like the conservatives only stick up for something when some far left-wing agenda starts gaining steam to negatively reform something. Then the conservatives feel they have an enemy which justifies their expressing their real stances (and of course all of a sudden the extremist conservatives, many of them, also have sudden changes of heart so that they can put this new "madness" into perspective).

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    I think the health system here was more a symbol of national pride years ago...I would think people across the spectrum think it needs restructuring\modernising now, not just extremists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subterranean View Post
    http://marbury.typepad.com/marbury/2...r-quality.html Would be interested (as the blogger is) to read the whole of this report to find out the intricacies.
    I had been debating this very thing with someone on another forum. I can prove him wrong now with a little copy and pasting. Thanks.

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