[C. Edmund Wright]

You and Trebb must be the same person - using different screen names, because your absurd assumptions and self pity and emerging guilt are identical.

And I made NO assumptions, but I did use logic to deduce the mindset that is behind the words you/Trebb used. There is no other way to breakdown what you said. Words mean things, and they reveal a lot. Your words belied a total ignorance of, or antipathy towards, the private sector. Your high horse support of the sequester reinforces this. I doubt you are following what I am saying, because it goes beyond any economic understanding that you have demonstrated it.

If you have economic intelligence beyond what you have demonstrated, perhaps you should demonstate it. To date, you have not.

[Alissa]

Actually, I did get into this foolish argument trying to defend Trebb. But since you've made the assumption, I'll repeat that, the assumption that all Feds are lazy bureaucrats then I'm done with defending good people who work for the gov't. I'm just going to ignore these kinds of posts in the future because of the ignorant assumptions. You just get off on insulting people that you know nothing about and that is a personality type that is unappealing to me.

My entire family is in the private sector! I have one distant cousin who worked in DC for the gov't at one time, otherwise, husband, children, aunts, uncles, cousins all work in the private sector.

[trebb]

You are really amazing - so much knowledge with so little experience in the areas where you snipe at others. It reminds me of talking with a pro-Obama lib I work with - he doesn't know what he's talking about and feels safer and mightier by not bothering to find out. It's so much easier to snipe out of ignorance than it is to look at facts - you call me a "pro-defense liberal" and yet you really don't know me. I'd wager I know much more about you by the questions I posed which you didn't address, but instead changed tangents by a few degrees to try to maintain the aura of "superiority". The trouble with them auras is that they dissipate pretty quickly once someone gets a clear view. I guess that's why you really get off on a site like FR - it gives you an opportunity to massage your macro ego and bolster your micro manhood.

An old saying goes, "I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person". With such as you, it's more apropos to say, "He threw down the gauntlet and accepted the duel, but he never showed up except to send some really nasty letters - kind of cowardly the way he spouts off and never answers a question to explain himself or to indicate he bothered to stop and think. He seems to think that his Donahue act, poking his glasses up his nose as he out-shouts those he disagrees with, makes him a superior type. It's sorry, really - he tells us he has so much potential, but then again so does a can of beans".

I have friends and family in the private sector and even in healthcare which is likely to come back and bite them big time. I gave you a little info about me before and you ignored the challenge because it's so much easier to spout what you feel and act as if you know something. I guess one can't disprove your superior knowledge and intelligence until you actually try to back them up - no danger there.