Why is it So Difficult To Fire a Public-Serving Personnel?

So many people in the Greater Detroit area had lost their jobs, due to lay-offs and down-sizing, which is the fault of top-level management more than it is the fault of these individuals. However, when it comes time to hand out pink slips, it doesn't matter how hard-working and how dedicated or how loyal you have been over the years and decades - you just pack your banker box and head for the unemployment line.

Not so with public-serving officials, even though their salary comes from taxpayers and voters. The Mayor of Detroit is a prime example of this conundrum because as obvious it is that he had abused the trust of the people, it is an extremely difficult process to remove him from the position. Kwame Kilpatrick was voted into office by the people, his salary paid by the people, and he is to work for the people of Detroit.

Amidst the text-messaging scandal, amidst the red Lincoln Navigator controversy, amidst the city contracts misappropriations and amidst the many ways that he had abused his power as Mayor - this man is still sitting high on his throne, and drawing a steady lucrative paycheck from the people of Detroit.

Link to Wikipedia details of Kwame Kilpatrick and his misconducts

This issue obviously relates to other public-serving personnel such as cops, magistrates and judges as well. The racket involving traffic tickets, brought a flood of negative PR and public outcry, but yet people like David Kanapsky and Stephen Starr are still on the job drawing a comfortable paycheck from the people they fleeced. It really goes without saying that if you were the one to engage in any of the aforementioned activities, you would be jobless in a split second. We do need to take all these issues personally, because short of that, and we will continue being victims without voices.

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