It happens whenever some TV reporter tires of waiting for a car wreck. He finds the nearest road crew and treats viewers to an alarming expose about city or county employees leaning on their shovels at taxpayer expense. Never mind the fact we could eliminate 70 percent of all white collar jobs in this country and never know the difference. The fact is, most educated, upper-middle class professionals waste an unfathomable amount of time in their offices. They surf the web, play computer solitaire and go to lunch.
Studies show that the average American white collar worker is productive for about two hours a day.
Nobody really cares about this phenomenon, and some truly cherish it. Let the ditch-diggers sweat, and sic the evening news on them if they don't. That's what they get for not incurring debt to attend college and drink at the Sigma Delta Chi. The system works, until it causes pain. And right now parents in Boulder are feeling the pain.