Well, as much as I appreciate the Friday and Sunday blessings, my main takeaway the past few months is that i need a larger screen and smaller thumbs. 😉 😂 💰 Fortunately, perhaps, my iPhone Tennis (XS) is EOL’d so in only 10, 11 months my wish will come true.
Now, as for more, or any, respect from the gummint, do mean from those we elec…
Well, as much as I appreciate the Friday and Sunday blessings, my main takeaway the past few months is that i need a larger screen and smaller thumbs. 😉 😂 💰 Fortunately, perhaps, my iPhone Tennis (XS) is EOL’d so in only 10, 11 months my wish will come true.
Now, as for more, or any, respect from the gummint, do mean from those we elect to manage and thems that are employed to run the gummint? Then I’m with you, BUT gov’t in/of/by itself cannot do respect as it is an artificial entity. To get to the respect I agree we need/should have will require limiting the size of gov’t by enacting term limits, returning the Senate to the States, eliminating the civil servants from exercising legislative like ability (force the Legislature to BE a legislature) and limiting the size of the civil service and the length of time one works for/in civil service - the idea being that at some point, sooner than later, everyone/anyone in any facet of government will have to return to and live amongst the people
When I was a gov ee (a good while ago) I used to reflect on how unfair it seemed that we were being paid so much more than the private sectot.The PS was where real work was happening.
Back in the deep dark dim recesses of what I humorously call my memory, don’t remember if it was a governmental history class or a law school class, I do remember that the civil service classification was a compromise: in exchange for some employment protections they settled for lower wages than in the private sector and no unionization. Well, we can see how that faired: most of the top income counties in USofA surround DC and gummint unions are the only unions that are really growing.
I shouldn’t, but I do have a bit of a conflict in this: dad went to work for the gummint right after he completed his Ph.D program, starting as a post doc, and kept climbing the GS ladder right to end. The thing that bugs me is I’m not sure he would have had as successful a career doing what he did in the area he was in the private sector - 🤷♀️. What further bugs me is that even when the private sector shrinks the gummint sector continues to grow. The gummint produces nothing (well, essentially nothing), the private sector is the engine but we allow the GS to act as a governor on the PS - as a result when we should be having the greatest growth in the modern era due to the transformative power of current tech we’re practically idling. We have massive transfer of wealth from the productive sector to unproductive lay-abouts, invaders, etc., but also to the government sector. The amount of friction involved in this fiscal flow is so great if it obeyed the laws of physics/thermodynamics we would’a reached self-combustion a decade or more ago.
SR Miller, I don’t think I’ve said this before but I am hoping and looking forward to shrinkage! (of government) When I look at people like Merrick Garland, Tony Blinken, James Sullivan, and the rest of these characters, too many to list, I see them all sleeping on their feathered beds, stuffing their faces will filets and lobsta’s and sending innocent people to prison, law fare, and now sending our kids off to war, so they can get more wealthy. You can work for a company that helps make a gear or a computer chip a cone for a missile or a company that makes nasal swabs and machines to test for Covid, and you all got fithy rich off the suffering of others. Sure you were just making the pieces, doing what you were told, watching your account grow while others struggled. Well I hope struggling people that actually produce the things everyday people need and want will see an uptick in their bank accounts. It’s funny when I talk to people that have profited greatly off the pandemic and the wars they’re all upset and worried about Trump being president. They wanted Harris to continue their income stream. I have a neighbor that lobbied congress for money to get everything the army gets, he’s said from a bullet to a Blackhawk helicopter to Abraham tanks, he was a lieutenant colonel. When Biden got in he said things went back to normal. It got back to a blank check, anything he wanted he got. He said with Trump they went line by line and would deny money going out the door. I think this time Trump will be worse for those people. That’s why the deep state is so panicked. Trump has so much to do, I hope he’s successful. I fear for him and our country.
Well, as much as I appreciate the Friday and Sunday blessings, my main takeaway the past few months is that i need a larger screen and smaller thumbs. 😉 😂 💰 Fortunately, perhaps, my iPhone Tennis (XS) is EOL’d so in only 10, 11 months my wish will come true.
Now, as for more, or any, respect from the gummint, do mean from those we elect to manage and thems that are employed to run the gummint? Then I’m with you, BUT gov’t in/of/by itself cannot do respect as it is an artificial entity. To get to the respect I agree we need/should have will require limiting the size of gov’t by enacting term limits, returning the Senate to the States, eliminating the civil servants from exercising legislative like ability (force the Legislature to BE a legislature) and limiting the size of the civil service and the length of time one works for/in civil service - the idea being that at some point, sooner than later, everyone/anyone in any facet of government will have to return to and live amongst the people
I actually remember when civil servants earned less for the same work than on the outside. Now I believe earn 30% more. Look for that union label!
When I was a gov ee (a good while ago) I used to reflect on how unfair it seemed that we were being paid so much more than the private sectot.The PS was where real work was happening.
Back in the deep dark dim recesses of what I humorously call my memory, don’t remember if it was a governmental history class or a law school class, I do remember that the civil service classification was a compromise: in exchange for some employment protections they settled for lower wages than in the private sector and no unionization. Well, we can see how that faired: most of the top income counties in USofA surround DC and gummint unions are the only unions that are really growing.
I shouldn’t, but I do have a bit of a conflict in this: dad went to work for the gummint right after he completed his Ph.D program, starting as a post doc, and kept climbing the GS ladder right to end. The thing that bugs me is I’m not sure he would have had as successful a career doing what he did in the area he was in the private sector - 🤷♀️. What further bugs me is that even when the private sector shrinks the gummint sector continues to grow. The gummint produces nothing (well, essentially nothing), the private sector is the engine but we allow the GS to act as a governor on the PS - as a result when we should be having the greatest growth in the modern era due to the transformative power of current tech we’re practically idling. We have massive transfer of wealth from the productive sector to unproductive lay-abouts, invaders, etc., but also to the government sector. The amount of friction involved in this fiscal flow is so great if it obeyed the laws of physics/thermodynamics we would’a reached self-combustion a decade or more ago.
SR Miller, I don’t think I’ve said this before but I am hoping and looking forward to shrinkage! (of government) When I look at people like Merrick Garland, Tony Blinken, James Sullivan, and the rest of these characters, too many to list, I see them all sleeping on their feathered beds, stuffing their faces will filets and lobsta’s and sending innocent people to prison, law fare, and now sending our kids off to war, so they can get more wealthy. You can work for a company that helps make a gear or a computer chip a cone for a missile or a company that makes nasal swabs and machines to test for Covid, and you all got fithy rich off the suffering of others. Sure you were just making the pieces, doing what you were told, watching your account grow while others struggled. Well I hope struggling people that actually produce the things everyday people need and want will see an uptick in their bank accounts. It’s funny when I talk to people that have profited greatly off the pandemic and the wars they’re all upset and worried about Trump being president. They wanted Harris to continue their income stream. I have a neighbor that lobbied congress for money to get everything the army gets, he’s said from a bullet to a Blackhawk helicopter to Abraham tanks, he was a lieutenant colonel. When Biden got in he said things went back to normal. It got back to a blank check, anything he wanted he got. He said with Trump they went line by line and would deny money going out the door. I think this time Trump will be worse for those people. That’s why the deep state is so panicked. Trump has so much to do, I hope he’s successful. I fear for him and our country.