Originally Posted by
timshufflin
actually, no. In this day and age the giant marketing train of both federal and local governments has made it a requirement that you be a government employee to be a "hero". I am so offended by this marketing that it is stuck in my crawl.
-government employment positions should be made made as a last resort and not for a jobs program.
-government employee creation should be done with the utmost in care, anyone care to guess when the last time the federal government shrank its numbers of employees? Obama has added 180,000 hero's in the last three years!
-government employment should not be called "servant" or "in the service", we all know that it us in the private sector that are stuck doing the serving and paying for these employment positions. Policemen telling free people how we should talk to them, elected officials wanting exceptions on how the rule of law applies to them, the pyramid is upside down.
Right now my definition of a "hero" is any poor slob doing the working, paying, and slaving to pay for all these government employment positions. These poor slobs have got to be damn tired and wondering how in times like these the federal government could add 180,000 positions to its payroll.
On a sidebar, i really can't stomach a union position of any sort. The entire philosophy of a man who wants a job, telling another man who created the job what he will pay them and give them as benefits, is beyond my possible belief abilities.
My beef with government employees is really aimed at federal employees though, some exceptions, as my federal government has created these positions almost entirely against the us constitution created by the founders.
By the way, these are not liberal beliefs, these are conservative beliefs and i would challenge anyone who works for the federal government, save the military, how the founding fathers would justify their jobs existence. On a local level, smaller government is always better. Police and "teachers" are a must but the rest is really up for debate.
