I am truly baffled by people arguing against downsizing government to get rid of bad employees and fraud.
I know someone who works in government as well and works 1 day a week…from home. He created a program that move his mouse for him so it looks like he’s working so he can go play golf.
You hit it when you said government doesn’t face the same pressures as private because they get paid by forcible taxation and don’t actually produce anything, also we have little if any recourse to hold them accountable because they have all the cards. It’s maddening because there’s a lot of programs and people (elected and unelected) that need some serious accountability and consequences
Very well said! As the Biden years went on I remember thinking the backlash was going to be epic and here we are. I really hope the right learns that lesson and doesn’t overreach. Politically Homeless in California (where they haven’t learned the lesson yet, since Newscum is gunning for a shot at the presidency)
The focus word is "entitlement". The Left love entitlement. They feel that they are owed something by society. Every government hand-out. Subsidies. Preferential treatment. Safety. Security. Never being exposed to reality (it seems). A perpetual dream state where everything is possible and nothing interrupts the approved Muzak track. Money is never a concern as someone *else* will be put on the hook. Taking away from these folks is perceived as violence...and responded to in kind.
Hard and uncomfortable facts must be faced...and there is a huge throng of citizens who are not up to the task.
I have my disagreements with Trump. Fewer with Trump 2.0 than the previous version, but still there (Ukraine for one, some of his tariff ideas for another). But given the choices available in the last three elections voting for someone other than Trump in any of them was a sign you wanted cultural collapse and, probably arising from that, a second American civil war.
The fact that large sections of what I've seen described as the "Professional Managerial Class" generally don't get this and don't get that the woke stuff is hated, that mass uncontrolled immigration is hated and so on is astounding. The only explanation I can see for their obtuseness is Upton Sinclair's explanation: "It is difficult to get a man* to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
*also applies to women and those mentally ill people who claim other genders
I am truly baffled by people arguing against downsizing government to get rid of bad employees and fraud.
I know someone who works in government as well and works 1 day a week…from home. He created a program that move his mouse for him so it looks like he’s working so he can go play golf.
You hit it when you said government doesn’t face the same pressures as private because they get paid by forcible taxation and don’t actually produce anything, also we have little if any recourse to hold them accountable because they have all the cards. It’s maddening because there’s a lot of programs and people (elected and unelected) that need some serious accountability and consequences
Very well said! As the Biden years went on I remember thinking the backlash was going to be epic and here we are. I really hope the right learns that lesson and doesn’t overreach. Politically Homeless in California (where they haven’t learned the lesson yet, since Newscum is gunning for a shot at the presidency)
Same, California here too! It's maddening, because it looks like they are not drawing the right conclusions from their resounding loss.
(And I say 'resounding' only because Trump is a polarizing figure so he did not win with as large a margin as another candidate probably would have)
The focus word is "entitlement". The Left love entitlement. They feel that they are owed something by society. Every government hand-out. Subsidies. Preferential treatment. Safety. Security. Never being exposed to reality (it seems). A perpetual dream state where everything is possible and nothing interrupts the approved Muzak track. Money is never a concern as someone *else* will be put on the hook. Taking away from these folks is perceived as violence...and responded to in kind.
Hard and uncomfortable facts must be faced...and there is a huge throng of citizens who are not up to the task.
I have my disagreements with Trump. Fewer with Trump 2.0 than the previous version, but still there (Ukraine for one, some of his tariff ideas for another). But given the choices available in the last three elections voting for someone other than Trump in any of them was a sign you wanted cultural collapse and, probably arising from that, a second American civil war.
The fact that large sections of what I've seen described as the "Professional Managerial Class" generally don't get this and don't get that the woke stuff is hated, that mass uncontrolled immigration is hated and so on is astounding. The only explanation I can see for their obtuseness is Upton Sinclair's explanation: "It is difficult to get a man* to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
*also applies to women and those mentally ill people who claim other genders
I think letters from the politically brainless would be more apropos