[meyer]

In all reality the only federal employees who should be paid at all are postal workers. At least there you have folks doing something other people pay for.

Right?

Run that salary schedule down to zero and the work will still get done as folks like you will volunteer your time no doubt.

Maybe we could make government jobs like being on a jury - they just call you in, give you $15 per day, and you get to make the big decision

I really don't think that's what anniegetyourgun was advocating. She's simply pointing out, correctly, that there's a lot of waste in government, particularly in some of the more rogue and sometimes unnecessary departments. I work there and I see at least a moderate amount of waste every day. Granted, there's waste in virtually every bureaucracy (I spent 20+ years in private industry), but it seems to be prevalent in those areas that have no fear of competition. That would include many areas of dot-gov.

[muawiyah]

Rest assured that "anniegetyourgun" really was advocating not paying folks to work for the government.

Some folks have a faint hope they hold onto dearly that if they can just make government employment undesirable (by, for example, not paying the help), then the government will just go away.

I'd stop delivery on her welfare, retirement and merchandise rebate checks if that were possible.