tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147657587495995571.post4368707627438347585..comments2017-03-27T01:47:16.297-07:00Comments on Watch Dog Has Moved...: Morning News Round-Up -- 3.17.09: MACSA meet Dolores Carr...Watch Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01621442013300696109noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147657587495995571.post-85779044963494959712009-03-17T09:30:00.000-07:002009-03-17T09:30:00.000-07:00This is barely relevant to your post, but one thin...This is barely relevant to your post, but one thing that emerges very clearly from all the scandals is that every employing entity seems to have slid from doing its original job to being a jobs program. I'm hoping this insight is original and that it gets called the most cynical analysis yet.<BR/><BR/>But the idea is simple. City Hall is not an entity designed to serve the city's residents -- it is a jobs programs for its employees. (Certainly the planning dept is.)<BR/><BR/>School districts are not set up to serve students -- they are a jobs program for current employees.<BR/><BR/>The water district has nothing to do with our water safety, it is a jobs program for its employees.<BR/><BR/>Check it out. After five years or so, all employing entities have been taken over by its employees and, as such, the entities are managed to enhance employee benefits, not whatever its stated programs may be.<BR/><BR/>This idea certainly blows a hole in the "stakeholder" theory by claiming that the only stakeholder for any employing entity is its employees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com