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   simpsonfan2 said, 6 months ago

   No, government ‘employees’, not ‘workers’.
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   Pharmakeus Ubik said, 6 months ago

   A couple of Freshman teabag congressmen.
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   randayn said, 6 months ago

   I don’t work. I’m with the Government.
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   Lynne Truesdale said, 6 months ago

   There are many of us government workers who work very hard in the service of the people. We are just easy targets. Maybe you should see what we do before making fun of us. Just remember our Armed Services are Government Workers.
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   cdward said, 6 months ago

   I never understood this whole government worker meme. I know several – and I know a lot of private workers. They’re all hard-working. I think the resent might come from the fact that the government is a less abusive employer than many in the private sector.
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   Gary Giever said, 6 months ago

   Not very original.
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   Jane from Florida said, 6 months ago

   The government is big, bloated, and inefficient. There’s so much waste and inefficiency in government and we’ve all become very complacent about it.. " It’s just the way things are done". Inefficiency is " the new normal.’ And to any government worker complaining I say Oh, boo-hoo, you have a job.
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   jd wigman said, 6 months ago

   @Pharmakeus Ubik

   demscum
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   Mneedle said, 6 months ago

   Government workers don’t produce anything. They can’t be productive.
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    Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 6 months ago

    @Pharmakeus Ubik

    Yeah, you can give that obscene juvenile blatherskite up now.
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    Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 6 months ago

    @cdward

    It’s more the notion that because of union protectionism, government employees are almost impossible to fire for any reason, thus encouraging a culture of indolence and carelessness. I’m sure many, even most, government employees are dedicated and hard-working, but there is still a culture of laxity which results in woeful inefficiency: your local department of motor vehicles is the classic example. Seriously, if your paycheck doesn’t depend on you pleasing every customer you deal with,how hard do you work at it?
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    Pharmakeus Ubik said, 6 months ago

    @Penny Robinson Fan Club

    Care to enlighten me on what productive work the Tea Party caucus has produced? Obfuscation and stonewalling don’t count as productivity.

    You also seem to have forgotten that the term Tea Bag was first used by members of the movement, before it was co-opted (the movement) by Fox News and Freedom Works.

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    erictee said, 6 months ago

    Sensitive issue!
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    K M said, 6 months ago

    @Pharmakeus Ubik

    No one called Tea Party members Tea Baggers until you leftists started in on it and got your complicit media to reprint the vileness. You’re entitled to your own opinion, PU (appropriate), but you’re not entitled to your own facts.
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    cdward said, 6 months ago

    @Penny Robinson Fan Club

    Given the level of customer service I get from private or publicly held corporations, I’d say no government workers I’ve met could possibly be worse. And value? My insurance company just raised my rates $3,000 this year – and cut what they cover. Yea for the private sector!
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