[iowamark]

The government contractors, lawyers, etc., are de facto government employees.

[Lysandru]

Yes, we slimy Beltway Bandits are essentially quasi-government employees.

Yes, the Libs here are pretty "wack," but it least it's not yet San-Fran-Sicko.

Be that as it may, my own experience as a "servitor" for the Imperial Government demonstrates on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis that the last thing that the average citizen should want is the growth of government power.

I am constantly witnessing the waste and abuse of the taxpayer's money by clueless, petty, and arrogant bureaucrats who are more focused on their personal agendas rather than the good of the nation and getting the best value for the taxpayer's money.

[muawiyah]

Still, they aren't employees at all. They are supplicants.

That's a fancy word for "leaches" and "parasites". Some of them also, on the side, operate the world's largest oil company ~ well, doggone, yes, we have some hard core extractive industries with huge pieces of their core operations right here in Fairfax County.

Social Security is located up in Baltimore county, BTW, not here.