How to Alleviate Urban Traffic
Make it worse, if you listen to your government officials.
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who are unteachable, get government jobs.
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who are unteachable, get government jobs.
posted by Teflon at 3:29 PM
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5 Comments:
Hey. Some of us like working for the government.
We all work for the government, nowadays, Cullen---I work for the goverment through July or August most years.
But then I never learn....
I actually get more money back than I pay in. I have a real hard time reconciling that with my sense of ethics and fiscal conservatism. However, like a good consumer, we usually quickly reinvest that money right back into the economy.
But, on topic, I can't imagine doing anything other then working for the military.
I've never actually considered any DoD role to be a "government job" properly understood. That's probably because the folks who serve in national defense-related jobs are a different breed altogether than the welfare state apparatchiks who so characterize every other federal, state, and local government agency.
And when I was in the Air Force, I never considered myself a government employee either.
National defense is a much higher calling than the DMV, even in peacetime.
Well, I wish that that were true.
I mean, when I was in the Army, I didn't consider myself a "government employee" in the archetypical sense. But the only difference between a GS employee for the Depts. of Agriculture, Energy, Transportation, etc. and the DoD is that we get to work with and for the military.
I agree with you that national defense is a higher calling, and I love that I get to support the military men in women in my very meager manner, but we have every bit the amount of bureaucracy as those other jobs. But we definitely have a different state of mind about the job ... like you said.
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