Michael Hoover wrote:
> Word then metamorphosed into above
> use, perhaps because Mugwumps advocated civil service reform that
> ostensibly transcended partisan politics in interest of public good (as
> defined by Mugwumps, of course).
Civil service rules, like tenure in education, are of great help to many government-employed workers. But those "privileges" also (potentially) serve to separate public workers from private sector workers. Ideally of course civil service rules and tenure would be replaced by union job security contracts. But of course this is really utopian at a time when both teachers' unions are retrreating on tenure through their embrace of various "reform" proposals.
Carrol