Off on holiday!

Two more hours to go and I'm off on holiday.

I don't intend to watch the telly or read a paper for at least a week.

(And the silverware better still be here when I get back)

More on the lazy b'stards

Public sector employees work nine years less than their Private sector counterparts but are paid 30 per cent more.

According to this.

Public sector workers are paid better, have shorter hours, better pensions and earlier retirement.

Well, we all knew that already, didn't we? That isn't news, but when you couple it with the extraordinary liberties that these people take with their jobs.....

Not only do the enjoy better working conditions than their counterparts (us) in the private sector, they also believe they have a right to turn up at work at whatever time they want and even just ring in sick if they can't be bothered to come in at all.

According to the whistleblower in my previous post on this, even the best of the workers in his department were averaging 12 weeks off work per year.

Over their lifetimes, those in the private sector work 23 per cent longer - equivalent to an extra nine years and ten weeks

That equates to an extra 11.7 weeks off per year through a forty year employment, according to my calculations. Add this to the 12 weeks (at least) they already take as holidays and sickness and you get to nearly 24 weeks off. Looking at it that way (ahem), they are only at work for half the time that we are. They may as well not be there. In fact, they may as well not be there; they may as well just fuck off, because no one wants them anymore.

(And to all you lefties in the DM comments section, I don't mean get rid of the nurses, firefighters and police and you fucking know it. I mean get rid of the Diversity outreach co-ordinators, Smoking cessation officers, Mind and nutrition leaders, Healthy walking co-ordinators, sustainability managers etc etc ad infinitum)

Guns One, Tobacco One, Government Nil

The Supreme court in the United Staes has extended gun rights to every state and city in the nation, in a ruling likely to spur new challenges to gun control measures across the United States.

The decision was a setback for Chicago’s 28-year-old ban on handguns, which will now face a fresh judicial review and is likely to be eventually overturned.

Legal challenges to existing laws restricting gun use in other states and cities are also expected.

This is bound to be a big kick in the teeth for Americas gun control lobbyists, but the kicking doesn't end there:

In another ruling in favour of common sense, The US Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the federal government to wrest billions of dollars in damages from the tobacco industry.

Apparently the government wanted the tobacco industry to fund a 14 billion dollar smoking cessation program. This was originally proposed by the Clinton administration in 1999 and eventually appealed to the supremem court by the Obama administration.

Supremem Court says no...