[trebb]

No, I'm not assuming that at all, but I am assuming I don't CARE becasue this discussion is in the MACRO and you are arguing in the MICRO. I do assume you will not understand what I just said, and I further assume you don't really undertstand economics, the free market, nor the appropriate role of government and government employees in a free society. I assume you have decided you will never be anything more than a worker bee and that you assume anyone who reaches a level higher than that is somehow bad and somehow screwing the worker bee. How do you like THEM assumptions?

You still didn't assert that you would be oh-so-willing to take your own personal hit at the MICRO level in order to set things right at the MACRO level. Just what is the "proper role of government employees in a free society? I train military folks for their careers and also conduct specialized training for deployments - without a civilian base, there would be a lack of continuity and a degradation of training or a locking up of military troops in the training business. The average military we have working with us gets every bit of the pay/benefits (more really) than the average civilian in the job. If spending a 24 year career in uniform, then leveraging my experience to help maintain a trained force makes me incapable of understanding the high-brow crapola you boast of, so be it. I'm also not the one who seems to be holding rancor over a set of people as you seem to posit, while you did seem to express a bit of antipathy during a few of your posts.

I guess the difference is that I know who and what I am and don't have to pretend not to be a pretentious and superior a$$hat in order to "make friends and influence people". How's the air up there? Does the rain cause a problem for the up-turned nose?

[C. Edmund Wright]

Your ignorance of what has already happened in the private sector is nothing short of breathtaking. Almost everyone IN the private sector has already been slammed for 5 years! How in the hell can you not know that? What planet are you on?

Second, your assumption that when people refer to “government employees” that we are talking about soldiers and related functions is very disturbing. Yes, I realize that techincally military personnel ARE government employees, but no one in their right mind lumps them in that pile. The notion that you assumed that scares the hell out of me, because apparently you are a “gummint bureaucrat” first above all else. I do know the difference. YOU DON”T

And third, where the hell do you think ANY of this money comes from?

[dinodino]

You should walk out of your cushy government office sometime and take a look at what those of us in the private sector are going through—and we pay your salaries!

Count me amongst those whom wish to see lots of Federal “workers” cleaning out their desks for good