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Thank you for making the effort.

Out of all the federal workers I know personally (including my husband), only one is a loon as far as politics goes. The loon amongst them always votes for the weirdest third-party candidate there is and won’t vote for dems.

The rest of them vote for the closest thing to conservatives they can find — every election — and they refuse to join the union. The unions have lost many members over the last decade or so, and their crime bosses are desperately in search of other businesses to target, since they can no longer depend on federal employees to be loyal to them.

Thanks for the response. Most of my civilian co-workers are conscientious and diligent with solid work ethics. One is a hard-core lib and I have been chiding him lately due to his efforts to discipline a civilian who is part of the union. My co-worker was a union rep before a promotion took him out of the union dealings and now the union is causing him no small amount of headaches trying to protect a guy who needs to be gone. He still voted for Zero and cannot seem to understand why I despise the Left so much.

Most of the government workers that cause so many problems are in the various Washington-connected agencies and they give us all a bad name. Most of my co-workers spent 20 or more years of honorable military service and it was a a natural move to go back to the same base they retired from to fill a civilian slot - they get to leverage their military experience when it comes to training new recruits and over the last 4 years, it was either fill a civilian vacancy or go on unemployment - not much choice there. I spent 24 years in the AF and my 13 years as a DOD civilian makes 37 years in/around the military and the folks I love so much.

Not all the civilians are like my co-worker; he can't convince me so he goes to other. I overheard him asking a young civilian what he thought it meant that Obama got so much of the vote - the young man looked at him and said, "Because so many people are stupid?" It was a good moment to see the look on his face.

“Out of all the federal workers I know personally (including my husband), only one is a loon as far as politics goes. The loon amongst them always votes for the weirdest third-party candidate there is and won’t vote for dems.”

Politics and voting are not the reasons to get rid of Federal employees.

We simply cannot afford them. They are overcompensated, over-benefited compared to the private sector (that pays for it all) and most of all they all retire as defacto millionaires.

So whether a federal employee “earns” their money or not, we can’t afford them. Your husband should figure out what he could do in the private sector, because he’ll need to know this in the likely event that a substantial number of federal employees lose their jobs.