Other than Jim and John Robinson, there is nobody that can speak for the whole community. I would not try to.
My work as a contractor for the federal government will be ending soon and, internally, I see plenty of abuse just in my own little neighborhood. I would never think of them as all good or all bad. I’ve known some that were excellent public servants and others that are near worthless drains on the budget.
In the not-so-long-ago Obama years, you did what you had to to find a job. That’s how I wound up as a contractor. It’s been a decent living for four years but they were frustrating ones.
It taught me that my Lord is in control and He has his reasons for major life changes. So I look for the good and bad in the individual and the job I’m hired to do, not wishing to brand all of them with the same broad brush.
Bless you in your work and do it heartily as if unto the Lord. The Bible teaches we will not all have fair slavemasters. We’re still to work hard for them.
I think you’ll be disappointed if you think whatever happens here will silence the detractors however. They are who they are.
And trust me, I do. I just came back from working a Saturday shift I normally do not have to do, but with the problems the IT infrastructure has been giving us I felt it prudent to go in and oversee things in case there were any issues.
I will always do my very best for whoever I work for, whether they deserve it or not. It's what the Lord commands of us, and I would feel remiss in my duties to do otherwise.