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SHOCKER: Rasmussen: Gov?t workers a lot more optimistic on economy than private sector. ?While a?

By Glenn Reynolds

SHOCKER: Rasmussen: Gov?t workers a lot more optimistic on economy than private sector. “While a near majority of private-sector employees see the economy as deteriorating, the opposite is true of public-sector employees. Forty-six percent of government workers think the economy is improving.”

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Re your post about the optimistic outlook by and for government workers. I’m active duty military (34 years) who just transferred from Hawaii to the Beltway. Government workers aren’t just optimistic, they’re ECSTATIC! Tons of openings for careerists who want upgrades–just switch agencies and get a $34K/year raise. NSPS just gave everyone PHAT raises and now that it’s been repealed, nobody has to live up to the objectives they agreed to to get the big raises they got.

I’m in IM/IT at the Undersecretary level. We cannot hire enough, fast enough. We’re having billions (yeah, billions with a B) shoved into our budgets with no real plan on how to execute a budget that size, just a mandate to do so.

I’m well-positioned to move from active duty military to a SWEET government job, but I’m just not that big a fan of DC. I’m stuck on Active Duty because my wife needs a lung transplant and I had to move here to get her one. Once I get a disposition on that, I’m outta here like a boner in sweatpants.

Er, right.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).