The Post reported this morning on an investigation in DC of people who drew unemployment insurance while employed by the District. Apparently particularly for intermittent employees, the pattern was when they got paid by the District they failed to report the fact back to the unemployment people.
My immediate response was drastic, jail 'em. Maybe that's because I think highly of public service, so feel let down when civil servants screw up. Then I thought: if civil servants should be models, isn't that a basis for paying them more? (Think of the public school teacher in a small town in the old days.) But then the prestige of the job is additional compensation.
Bottom line: I'm confused and don't know what I think.
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