[Flightdeck]

"If my gubmint check was as big as yours, I'd probably be defending them too."

Drivel. More like, if you knew as much as I knew, you'd be defending them, too. And the "gubmint" doesn't pay me, I pay them.

But you don't know as much as I do, and you never will. Come back with a Ph.D. in engineering or physics, and maybe I'll listen. Otherwise your presence on this message board is useless, "gubmint".

[JohnGalt]

If I had a nickel for every gubmint employee who thinks their job is essential and somehow immune to the failure and inefficiency of all other socialist enterprises...

Tell you what, if you quit your job today, you would probably be helping this web site achieve its mission statement.

We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America