Illinois governor signs pension overhaul into law

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34. I have heard that of every state in the Union, and at any level, it is FALSE and always has been

Even when the rule in Washington was the spoil system, the positions were positions that needed to be filled. The State has work that has to get done, and someone has to do it. Some of the hardest working people in Government are patronage people, for they want they candidate to get re-elected and thus do they job well so people are happy with them and thus re-elected the person who appointed them.

92% of all jobs are obtains through Friends and Relatives. Yet over 90% of employers say they hire only on merit. How can these two facts both be true? The answer is simple, people tell their friends and relatives of jobs that are open that such Friends and relatives can fill. Thus 92% of all employees find jobs they are qualified to fill by being told by Friends or Relatives of people who are looking for people like them. The employer then use merit hiring to hire the best qualified, and more times then not it is the person some friend or relative had told to apply.

Government works the same way. People here of a position open, and tell people they know that the position is open and how to apply. If a new set of jobs are opened by a Government expansion, the people who know of the expansion tells their friends and relatives, who apply. This is how most government jobs are filled, very similar to how private Enterprise fills jobs (in fact the same way).

I give you a example I know. A supervisor had a position he had to fill, he knew his daughter was qualified for the position and told her to apply. At that point he asked his supervision (hereafter referred to as "Boss&quot to select who the Supervisor should hire do to the fact the Supervisor's daughter was one of the applicants. The Boss agreed to do so, looked over the list of Applicants, interviewed the applicants and decided that the best candidate was the Daughter of the Supervisor (and in that case I agreed with the Boss, the Daughter was the best candidate for the Job, ignoring the fact her supervisor would be her father).

Now during the hiring process, favoritism and nepotism was alleged, but the process followed was an effort to minimize those concerns. In my opinion, if the Supervisor had NOT told his daughter to apply she would NOT have, and someone else would have been selected, but he did and she was hired.

The Daughter was NOT hired for do to her being the supervisor's daughter, but the fact she was in the hiring pool was because she was the Supervisor's Daughter. Similar situating occur all the time in both business and government (they tell people in collage in "Network" i.e. to go to parties, so that you make friends and those friends can then tell you who is hiring). The same with Government, Government is more often then not a network of friends that work together. As such they know each other and will tell each other (even of the opposition party) of a job that person or a friend or relative can do. Thus you get a lot of people related to politicians in Civil Service Position NOT because of favoritism in hiring, but because they know when to apply so that they are the top candidate when it comes to merit selection of jobs.

I am just pointing out everyone makes this accusation, but I have NOT seen any truth to those stories, for most people do NOT want these Civil Service Position EXCEPT people who want to do that type of work (i.e. Political patronage people do not want not get these jobs). These accusations are made by people who dislike government for some reason, and think any government position is one of theft and ignore the good things government provides, such as roads, schools, police protection and the court System.