ALL government employees are, by definition, Non Producers, people who have never produced a whit of the products or services necessary to sustain an ethical society or civilization.
Your friends are acting exactly in accordance with their position, lifelong looting slackers
Why do you expect them to act differently?
The makers and the takers.
Sorry but you are wrong in your global view.....
Clinical workers who serve at the VA are not “lifelong looting slackers.” And no, they are not paid outrageous salaries...that’s for the big shots in DC. The MAJORTIY of these clinical workers work very hard under stressful conditions.
Clerical workers who manage the social Security system,etc are also not ‘slackers.”
Government is too big and there ARE slackers who do not produce or serve a useful function..but my city garbage collector is also not one of those.
Yes...you make excellent points...and yet, these people are so good on so many other levels. BUT...socialists and worse: anti-capitalists.
The navy, too?