Posted on 03/02/2011 6:09:10 AM PST by Poundstone
I am proud to be a federal employee. Let me repeat, proud to be one of millions across the nation who work as a public servant and who believes that public employees choose careers so they can be a vital part of the glue that holds this nation together.
Who are we? We are your neighbors, we are your friends, we are your fellow parishioners, and the people who sit with you watching the children and grandchildren at the ballpark or the basketball court.
We are not faceless and anonymous "others." We are people you have known all your lives.
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I hope he enjoys our kids and grand kids tax money.
and by one person instead of two.
I live in MD (FREAK state) surrounded by these simple-minded, self-aggrandizing, feckless “public servants”. At some level you want to buy their disarming well-intended BS so as to demonstrate understanding; however, most of them are losers who are at the trough big time. Their excitement is in how little they can accomplish each day, how many sick days they have saved, how many worthless meetings they can attend, playing on Facebook or some worthless internet game (farm or mafia), pondering how many days of vacation and personal days they can get and how much they will earn on retirement. If they have to do something or have to respond to a Citizen, they are irritated and bothered. Truly that is the American Spirit around these repulsive oafs. There are exceptions to this and I am sure a few will let me know (probably while on office time using government equipment and while being paid by the taxpayers).
I think the ‘sympathy for the devil’ analogy is spot on.
I spent 20 years as a Soldier, with DOD civilians looking down their noses at us and finding one excuse after another why they could not do their job.
Other folks may have had a different experience, but that was mine.
I think you said "All companies in America must stop being publicly traded". Is that right?
A bold concept. But I'm not sure how it relates to this thread?
Until Mark and his buddies who work in obsolete federal programs get RIFed, just like his friends and neighbors who work in the private sector, then Mark isn’t really one of “us.”
Got a few questions for you :
Do you also pay into Social Scurity? Medicare? Are your health insurance premiums pre-tax? Is your retirement account guaranteed (protected from loss due to market forces)?
Unlike an “at will” employee, what process is or was necessary to terminate your employment?
Mrs. AV
“I guess moving to another place would be out of the question?”
Yes. I have a full-time private sector job now in Washington.
Let’s play a game. It is called “Determine if your job is a drain on the economy”.
Does your job exist to fulfill regulatory compliance?
Does your job exist to fulfill statutory compliance?
Does your job exist to ward off lawsuits?
If yes to any of those, you are probably a drain on the economy!
Does your job exist to make something to sell?
Does your job exist to design something to sell?
Does you job exist to keep something working?
Would someone in another country, of their own free will free from government coersion buy the product you make or service you provide?
If yes, you are probably not a drain on the economy. You probably provide a value that is being parasitically destroyed by the people in the first group.
So, the amount in your 401k is irrelevant.
* how many sick days they have saved.
* how many days of vacation they can get.
* how much they will earn on retirement.
Also: I've noticed a wall of body-odor when walking into their offices.
They are totally self-absorbed.
“I have a full-time private sector job now in Washington.”
There is a walmart in DC?
I’ll never forget going to the DMV to get my liscense changed after moving to NY. Fill out the forms and printing the info letter by letter in the blocks provided. Wait in line for 40 minutes and when I get to the front, a clerk takes my form and hands it to one of 6 other clerks whose job it is to re-write what I filled out onto another form.
You'd like us to think that you're making this huge sacrifice, but the truth is, unless you're manning a machine gun someplace, the country won't stop dead in its tracks if you don't show up for work for the next decade or two. Get the eff off your high horse with this "public servant" tripe.
They've priced themselves out of the market. They could be God's gift and we still can't afford them.
NO.. land and natural resources.. stocks are no more real than fiat currency is.. or derivatives..
Your post #75 was a public service. Thank you :0)
No sir. You are a leech, a tick that has burrowed deep into the skin to feast on the labor of others. You perform no function that couldn’t be performed cheaper and better in the private sector. You are simply one locust in the swarm that is devouring our nation. So pardon me if I don’t get all squishy at the depth and nobility of your imagined “service”.
NOW all the sudden they’re defining themselves to us? After decades of virtually no layoffs, firings, downsizing . . .didn’t they used to have their own retirement system too? Oh and how about those civil service and
Constitutional protections they supposedly have vis a vis the rest of us? Practically everyone else has been terminated, laid off, downsized, taken a pay cut, benefit cut, left a job in disgust because their was no whistleblowing protection or due process . . . yet WE are supposed to UNDERSTAND THEM when all we’ve been doing all these years is financing their job security and comp and benefit raises?
Especially now that the debts are huge and the taxpayer warriors are restless?
This is nothing more than a PR ploy because they know the day is comin’
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