For years now the politicians have imbedded in the minds of the voters that it takes a politician to run the government. It’s a proven fact when a business person is elected to a government office it is run more efficiently, and budgeted more conservatively.
These career politicians promote and back friends to the benefit of themselves, (by having another friendly face in the halls of governance) and the determent of the public; due to the friends our politicians are backing not having the experience necessary for the job at hand. Being a nice person and having an extensive public service background are not sufficient quantifiers for a position that’s budgeted 4.5 million dollars each year. In an office with 80 employees and over 50,000 customers per month, nice and public service won’t cut it. You need a business person, with experience handling a large company with millions a year income. You need a person experienced in cutting costs, balancing budgets, and managing each employee to their exacting standards.
As to public service experience public service offices are funded through public/government funding; therefore a Public Service worker cannot prove their successes in business through their public works experience. Sufficient to say, the budgeting skills required in any business, or multi-million dollar government office are not easily shown when you are provided funding out of the tax system. The best gauge of success in budgeting is whether or not a person has run a successful business. A public service officer has the perception of ‘if I don’t spend it I lose it next year’ wasteful budgeting.
A successful business person knows how to:
1. Handle employee issues, whether good or bad
2. Handle customer issues whether good or bad
3. Maintain, Budget and reduce expenses
4. Keeps an eye out for unscrupulous activities, whether from within the organization, or outside.
5. Organize a qualified and well trained staff.
