Well, thanks for your support. I am one of those federal workers. I help keep the B-1B Lancer flying. I have done so for the past 22 years. Prior to that I was an Air Force flying officer for 15 years. So I have been sucking at the government teat for 37 years. I could be making twice as much working for a contractor, but I would feel a little guilty getting that pay for the same work.
P.S. I am emergency essential. I will work even if it is possible without pay. Did that when Clinton shut down the government. We did get paid, but unlike the nonessential workers we did not get an extra week paid vacation. I am not complaining, but those are the facts.
Fire ALL Federal workers,
Well, thanks for your support. I am one of those federal workers. I help keep the B-1B Lancer flying. I have done so for the past 22 years. Prior to that I was an Air Force flying officer for 15 years. So I have been sucking at the government teat for 37 years. I could be making twice as much working for a contractor, but I would feel a little guilty getting that pay for the same work.
P.S. I am emergency essential. I will work even if it is possible without pay. Did that when Clinton shut down the government. We did get paid, but unlike the nonessential workers we did not get an extra week paid vacation. I am not complaining, but those are the facts.
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Know just how you feel Andrew. I wrote something similar last week and was berated by more than 1 person on that thread that was busy dancing because the gov’t. was being shut down.
I explained what my husband did, he runs education & training for our base - making sure all the service members and civilians are properly trained, does WAPS testing for our service members and many other things.
He’s considered non-essential - all righty then. I can see how those jobs are non-essential /sarc
I was told other people have lost their jobs and I should suck it up. I said yeah but when they lost them people weren’t cheering were they? That’s how I feel.
I did used to feel like many of the people on this site could see the trees rather than the forest, but now they’ve lumped all federal workers in the bad apple category and they don’t care how many of their fellow FReepers are hurt, as long as the government shuts down.
bitter? Yeah, I guess I am. I did think FReepers had more sense than the general populations.
Good luck to you Andrew and thanks for doing what you do. There are good federal workers but folks fail to see that.
Thank you for your service to our country (not being sarcastic; I mean it).
But you need to understand, this sort of garbage from the government unions has alot of the rest of us ready to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Federal employees need to get their own unions under control and back to operating in the real world if they don't want this kind of backlash from we who fund your paychecks.
You scare me.
The faux outrage leaves me cold. If you are doing critical work with a personality problem something is wrong.
You chose to interpret the "ALL" to include our armed forces. Anyone with that level of poverty of judgement I would not want working on my lawnmower.
Get over yourself.
Not once, ever, in the 14 years I have visited Free Republic do I recall a single statement or suggestion that ANY of our armed forces are overpaid. But I have seen hundreds of angry demands that their risks and sacrifices be compensated more equitably.
yeah yeah
all you idiots have that line down “I could be making twice as much for a contractor”
You just left out the part about “but they didn’t hire me” or ‘they wouldn’t hire my spouse too” or “but I don’t have the energy to go get that job”
What a LOAD!
I think most FReepers support federal funding for the military. Defense is supposed to be one of the federal government’s few responsibilities.
The federal workers most FReepers have no use for are the millions of IRS workers, social program personnel, regulatory agency employees, etc...
The Fed should be in the business of protecting the nation militarily and enforcing the constitution. The rest of the “responsibilities” they’ve assumed should be shut down.