Posted on 08/24/2011 4:48:54 PM PDT by Qbert
Of course, a good socialist/communist is compelled to say that. Never mind that the comparison is absurd, one being a producer, the other a parasite.
I'll let others sort out which is which.
The poor abused pigs, the "more equal" animals deserve the better status, wealth, perks and position they enjoy so much so, that they can spend hundreds of millions$ to maintain their priviledged position.
The working taxpayer, the horse, better not complain, cuz their perfect paradise depends on him.
This "guilt by occupation" is unfortunately as real as the rising of the sun.
It is a deserved guilt applied to the millions of parasites whose last refuge is always "I was just doing my job; following orders."
I never considered myself a parasite. I performed a service for customers. I didn't sit around and draw a paycheck for nothing, and I tried to perform my work to the best of my ability. Post offices are explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, so one can't say that the existence of my job was any sort of unconstitutional usurpation.
The poor abused pigs, the "more equal" animals deserve the better status, wealth, perks and position they enjoy so much so, that they can spend hundreds of millions$ to maintain their priviledged position.
I never sought to manipulate myself into better status, wealth, or position. I simply wanted to make an honest living.
The working taxpayer, the horse, better not complain, cuz their perfect paradise depends on him.
My relatives, friends, and fellow citizens are working taxpayers. Why would I want to harm them?
They are vilified as beneficiaries of the government, which exploits or at least burdens the private sector, which happens to be true. Part of what makes conservatives conservatives is that they are not friends of Leviathan. Does that bug you?
Government employees are demonized by people who may have an influence upon the government.
Which isn't exactly the same thing as being demonized by the government and its friends, is it.
But here's the real nub of all this: the communists saw the kulaks as an enemy class who had no right to even exist. They wanted the kulaks eliminated. Likewise the Democrats (and their media friends) would love for the Tea Party to cease to exist. In their vision of a proper world there is no Tea Party. The attitude of conservatives towards government employees, on the other hand, is fundamentally different. Conservatives don't believe that there should be no government "class", just that it should play its proper role -- i.e. that the govt workforce should be smaller, with pay and benefits more in line with the private sector. Seeking reform and seeking annihilation are not the same thing.
I understand what you're saying, and the question of reform and adjustments to the public sector is certainly a fair one. If making sacrifices in my pay and benefits was needed for the well being of my fellow citizens then I would have to gladly bite the bullet. Sometimes I dwell on the rhetoric of the most extreme anti-government types and fail to realize that most conservatives, while having a healthy skepticism toward government, do not believe that the average civil servant is actively trying to harm his fellow Americans.
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