Civil Servants – who’s serving who?

Public service is the backbone of this great nation and province. However, like most traditional institutions, the core values have gone the way of the black and white television set and wearing pearls to vacuum the living room. Public servants (or Civil Servants in today’s speak) seem more interested in raises, pensions, benefits and striking to really be considered “servants for the public.” Who works for whom? If they are the servants, then we, the people, would be the masters. Then why is it that the servants make more than their masters or have better pension plans and health benefits than their masters? And, since when, can the servants hold the masters hostage by staging walk outs and wildcat lock downs of services that are required for the master to function in this province? Isn’t it convenient that teacher’s contracts are always up for negotiation right before school starts in the fall? Yet, they say it’s about how much they care about the kids. If so, then why disrupt their school year? Why not go on strike during the breaks? It’s because they care about themselves. Public servants care about themselves and their unions care about making money. Taxpayers just fund this corruption of our government services. It’s time to change their name. We haven’t been masters since about the time they stopped being servants. I want to hear what you think – especially if you know someone in the government but even more so if you’ve have to deal with someone recently who works for the government. Please post your comments below.