{"id":5572,"date":"2011-03-17T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2011-03-17T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:59:34","slug":"magical-thinking-watch-free-government-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/magical-thinking-watch-free-government-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Thinking Watch:  Free Government Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/16\/us\/16ohio.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=tavernise%20ohio%20jobs&amp;st=cse\">New York Times rues <\/a>Ohio\u2019s pending legislative effort to cut back on public-sector union clout when government jobs are the only decent ones left in an area of southern Ohio:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Decades of industrial decline have eroded private-sector jobs here, leaving a thin crust of low-paying service work that makes public-sector jobs look great in comparison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Actually, government jobs not the <em>only<\/em> decent ones: if you have saleable skills, there <em>are<\/em> \u201cgood jobs\u201d in a local hospital and two power plants, reports the Times.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Apparently the Times thinks that there is no possible connection between a shrinking private sector and a well-padded public one.\u00a0 The funding for outsized government health benefits and pensions just magically appears, rather than being stripped from private investment.\u00a0\u00a0 So why not then put everyone on a government job and solve all our economic woes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times rues Ohio\u2019s pending legislative effort to cut back on public-sector union clout when government jobs are the only decent ones left in an area of southern Ohio: Decades of industrial decline have eroded private-sector jobs here, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/magical-thinking-watch-free-government-jobs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}