re: Here is an easy $62.5 million to address the states shortfall.

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But on average, the efficiency of private sector workers is far greater than government workers. There are very few reasonable people that would deny that.

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I am a very reasonable person, and I have seen the averages. I think the averages are skewed, because it is so easy to fire a non-performing employee in the private sector v. the public sector.

I also think it depends on if you are talking professional titles or general state v. private employees.

I think if you compare the accountants at P&N in Baton Rouge against the accountants for the state, P&N would blow the state out of the water, simply because P&N accountants are asked to do more than state accountants.

But, I still think generally, the efficiency of good state employees are on par with good private sector employees.

Also, I stated before that DSCS needs to take a look at the difficulty in firing underperforming employees. If you treat it more like the private sector, the average employee would be better.