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Originally Posted by rrskylar
Seriously who would vote still vote NDP besides those totally dependent on govt. (yeah I know 25% of Manitobans) or unionized govt. employees?
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If you think all public sector employees support the NDP government just because, you're terribly mistaken.
Plus while the stat about 25% of Manitoba's labour force is employed in the "public sector" (which includes federal, provincial, municipal, military, K-12 education, post-secondary and college education, healthcare, and public social service employees), it fails to recognize that provinces with smaller populations still demand the same level of public goods as provinces with larger populations. So naturally, with a small population, you still need some fixed level of government administration to deliver a given standard of public goods, but as the population gets larger, those services can be scaled up but usually less than a 1:1 ratio.
Said another way, if a jurisdiction has 100,000 people who all demand education, healthcare, and other public goods, it's going to take a small army to deliver those goods. If that jurisdiction grew to 300,000 people, the public service would need to grow but it wouldn't need to triple. Economies of scale can be achieved with larger populations. Just look at other provinces with similar populations to Manitoba. Their public service is similar in size. Once you start getting to the larger provinces, then the % working in the public sector shrinks, not because they are somehow "more efficient and less wasteful", but because of the economies of scale they achieve.
If you can't understand this concept, then it is likely that you will always be upset with the size of Manitoba's public sector unless this province grows by 2 million people overnight.