Should Civil Servants Be Banned from Buying Alcohol?

ClovenHoof

Following on from the David Norris suggestion that public money should not be given to the unemployed in order for them to buy booze, can the same dynamic be applied to Civil Servants?

Civil Servants costs the tax payer vastly more - "entitlements" - to supply with booze and their low carbon weddings in Bali and so on.

If a Civil Sevant spend their money on drink and is not performing in the office (let's not be brazen and refer to what they do as jobs), it creates a blockages in the system and services are not provided, and therefore poor value for money is delivered to the taxpayer.

If a Dolie goes on the piss and can't get up in the morning then no harm do to anyone but him or herself.

So I would like to propose that all Civil Servants be given breathalyser tests every day they come to 'work' in order to make sure they are not wasting public money on booze.

Why should one level of tax payer funded parasites in Irish society be excluded from the same moral and economic rationale that another levels of tax payer funded parasites are subjected to.

tomwaterford

Why are people being banned from buying alcohol

Fox_In_Socks

ClovenHoof wrote: »

If a Dolie goes on the piss and can't it get up in the morning then no harm do to anyone but him or herself.

Hee hee!

kneemos

Pensioners are another group.

WoollyRedHat

How much would the cost of administrating such a proposal entail?

Beyond that there is a much bigger waste of public monies than the unemployed and civil servants spending their money on a few tipples every weekend.

Del2005

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Following on from the David Norris suggestion that public money should not be given to the unemployed in order for them to buy booze, can the same dynamic be applied to Civil Servants?

Civil Servants costs the tax payer vastly more - "entitlements" - to supply with booze and their low carbon weddings in Bali and so on.

If a Civil Sevant spend their money on drink and is not performing in the office (let's not be brazen and refer to what they do as jobs), it creates a blockages in the system and services are not provided, and therefore poor value for money is delivered to the taxpayer.

If a Dolie goes on the piss and can't get up in the morning then no harm do to anyone but him or herself.

So I would like to propose that all Civil Servants be given breathalyser tests every day they come to 'work' in order to make sure they are not wasting public money on booze.

Why should one level of tax payer funded parasites in Irish society be excluded from the same moral and economic rationale that another levels of tax payer funded parasites are subjected to.

So you want them doing no work sober!

Fleawuss

I'll just crack open a bottle of Petrus here and let the games begin.

KERSPLAT!

We can't have a thread for every single question/scenario, we would end up with 'Should people on the dole, pensioners, blondes, woman, middle aged etc people be banned from buying alcohol' threads littered all over AH. All ridiculous questions but if you want to ask then use the relevant thread that is already discussing the topic