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Don Klipstein

In article , krw wrote:
In article Iy8Gg.661554$Fs1.374052@bgtnsc05-
news.ops.worldnet.att.net, says...

not sure why previous poster misunderstood what I was
trying to say. We can't come close to matching what private-sector pays
qualified entry-level sysadmins and techies. One of many reasons Govt has
outsourced most of those jobs. Not cheaper for the taxpayers, but you can
get money for a service contract easier than you can get money for a warm
body.

Do the numbers. The private sector can't afford the medical nor
retirement benefits the public sector gets. If a corporation ran
the same sort of books the government did, the CEO would be
sleeping in the same bunk as Ken Lay.

Retirement benefits? That's changing! Most Federal employees hired
after 1985 or so get to retire on Social Security at the same age as
private sector employees. And last time I checked, they had to pay part
of their health insurance premiums.

- Don Klipstein )