They are alsoteaching in the academy and at interdepartmental training that the population is out to get them. You have operator wanna be instructors telling everone how bad it’s getting and I am in it everyday and I don’t see it.
That does not surprise me. The entire thrust of the government mind set at the employee level seems to be us verses them. Any attempt by the taxpayers and voters to scale down the bureauracy is akin to someone taking away their free lunch. If someone does not change this notion around, it is going to get very bad.
There were missions in the late 80’s to through the 90’s to contract out as many government functions as they could. That was met with foot dragging by the agencies. That was the beginning of the we verses they mind set IMO. It abated under Bush and seems to have been completely wiped out by BO. Government expands to fill any voids in the same way as the idiom work expands to fill the time available for its completion. The more petty bureaucrats they have, the more they find problems which need more employees and consultants to fix. Most of these clowns are like Don Quiote except the windmills are the taxpayers.
If they're at all like some of the guys I know, including a couple who were trainers at FLETC, they won't even show when the call-up comes.
And not because they're some kind of super-patriot.