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I appreciate your thoughts, and I will have to push back on the federal workers aspect..

I'm sure the vast majority of them are "good" people, but let's be honest about them. Most of them went to work for the government because it would be a steady paycheck in a non-demanding environment where they knew they've have a govt pension for life and be comfortable.

They absolutely do care who the president is because team blue will always make sure to keep the size of the govt growing (the red team does most of the time as well, but cuts fat more often) and their livihood in tact.

Most of the people I personally know who work for the state or federal govt couldn't find a job that they were qualified for in the private sector so they went with what they could get

The iron law of bureaucracy is very real

whit 3mo ago

Appreciate the dialogue. Genuinely 🙏 I was speaking about what I saw 👀 & respect your opinion too. Will respond to your words in a separate post. Cause it’s a lot. 👏

Ref the quote at the bottom. If that is true why hasn’t the #USA become an #autocracy or an #oligarchy ? Some of us would say it has considering multiple things:

I’ll go straight to #DC & speak 🗣️ on this

1. Who writes the laws submitted? #Lobbyists

2. Who funds the majority of the #PACS

3. Who pays the least amount of #taxes in the #USA

IMO, There is so much wrong in the government from town level to national. Always worked locally before but every day it appears I might have to go back to #DC as much as it’s not my personal preference.

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Stacking Functions 3mo ago

Thanks, I'll look forward to that.

I commend you for actually doing something about what you see as wrong..

The bureaucracy quote only applies to the permanent bureaucracy. The "elected" politician deck chairs keep moving around enough to prevent a full autocracy (checks and balances were a decent design)

whit 3mo ago

Many people I know have been approached by #Halliburton #Blackwater and #BrownandRoot

And not everyone chose to work for them. While it would have been a drastically larger payday … some of us said … nah.

Beyond that many have willingly gave up what you call “non-demanding environment & their govt pensions” to become #whistleblowers hoping to make the government better. Results varied. However, I’m aware of some laws being passed thanks to them so maybe it was worth it.

“They absolutely do care who the president is because team blue will always make sure to keep the size of the govt growing (the red team does most of the time as well, but cuts fat more often) and their livihood in tact. “

Edward Snowden said it eloquently in his book Permanent Record

“My parents were, if not dismissive of politics in general, then certainly dismissive of politicians. To be sure, this dismissal had little in common with the disaffection of nonvoters or partisan disdain. Rather, it was a certain bemused detachment particular to their class, which nobler ages have called the federal civil service or the public sector, but which our own time tends to refer to as the deep state or the shadow government. None of those … “

PERMANENT RECORD

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“epithets, however, really captures what it is: a class of career off-cials (incidentally, perhaps one of the last functional middle classes in American life who-nonelected and non-appointed-serve or work in government, either at one of the independent agencies (from the CIA and NSA to the IRS, the FCC, and so on) or at one of the executive departments (State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, and

the like).

💥💥💥These were my parents, these were my people: a nearly three-million-strong professional government workforce dedicated to assisting the amateurs chosen by the electorate, and appointed by the elected, in fulfilling their political duties-or, in the words of the oath, in faithfully executing their offces. These civil servants, who stay in their positions even as administrations come and go, work as diligently under #Republicans as under #Democrats because they ultimately work for the #government itself, providing core continuity and stability of rule. “

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Most of the people I personally know who work for the state or federal govt couldn't find a job that they were qualified for in the private sector so they went with what they could get.

** Where I worked many people applied for years to get a job. Many took pay cuts just to get in. Obviously, our experiences and thus views are different.