The Savage Language Against Public Employees By GOP Candidates Disturbing.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The way GOP candidates talk about public employees encourages violence against such public servants. When Cruz says what he will do to IRS workers (deport them) and makes other incendiary and violent comments it is practically criminal. All the GOP can do it foment hatred against people who work for government and serve the public. Other GOP candidates are no better.

These workers are American citizens too. And they pay taxes. To label them the enemy is disgusting. And a public who cheers such remarks is no better.

[elleng]

1. Heck, all the GOP can do it foment hatred against people,

it's what they DO!

[KT2000]

2. this is why

some offices that deal with the public have armed guards on site. This started with Reagan and has gotten worse. The state ogf Washington has state troopers for some offices.

[Hekate]

3. Remember Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist, et al? The constant mantra that ...

...government is the enemy, that it fails at every turn, that it's corrupt -- those lies were and are self-fulfilling prophecies designed to destroy the government without the messy business of armed insurrection.

Some days I forget just how much I loathe the GOP. Then I drink my coffee and come fully awake.

[world wide wally]

4. In spite of most people paying lower taxes than ever and usually getting money back from the IRS,

it is part of their plan to make people hate the government…. unless THEY are in control of it all.
God forbid if that day ever comes… but we will see YUUUUUGE government if they do.

[quaker bill]

6. not my experience

I do agree with the first part, making people hate government is the campaign. However once they take over, they cut budgets, lay off people, replace management wholesale, then set up programs to give the remaining funds away to the private sector as quickly as possible. This is my first hand experience.

[world wide wally]

8. They will probably triple military spending as well as the CIA, FBI, and NSA

[quaker bill]

9. They actually can't...

unless they start a war, so I get your point.

[Hamlette]

5. The Ayn Rand fan in my government office

we hired a man for a professional position in my agency. He was hired to write decisions, same thing I do. In the six months he was there he wrote 12 decisions, the same number I write in any given 2 WEEK period. And all of them had to be rewritten they were so bad.

I think he bought his own bullshit about government workers not doing any work. We fired him, of course.

And yes, we have several layers of security in our building. It's not just the GOP candidates who trash gov't employees, its Fox and Rush and that lot too. And yes, it started with Ronnie.

[edhopper]

7. And why some public employees

vote GOP is beyond me.

[Populist_Prole]

12. I'm finding this out now

I'm finding out my fiancee is quite the little Ms. Fascist: She's a government employee but she's constantly bashing "government workers". It's like a thing with her: It's like everybody but her has poor work ethic and deserves to be fired. She's starting to constantly spout conservative anti-government rhetoric and has become quire smitten with none other than that fucking blowhard Christie. I try to tell her that it's just rhetoric the PTB use to divide and distract us from them robbing us blind and she totally scoffs at it no matter how tactful and clinical I am.

She was never political before. WTF happened?

I'm really worried.

[edhopper]

14. Sorry to hear that

does not bode well for your marriage, I hate to say, there is usually a lot of anger behind that kind of thinking.

[AnnieBW]

10. Saw a "Government is the Problem" Bumper Sticker on a Senior Fed's car

I work for the Federal Government. At my Agency, we have assigned parking for Senior Executives (part of being in the Senior Executive Service is having your own parking spot). I happened to walk past a car in a Senior spot one morning and saw a bumper sticker that read "Government is not the solution, Government is the problem."

Let that sink in a minute. A government employee - one that has been there long enough to be a Senior Executive - saying that "government is the problem." If this person thinks that "government" is the problem, why doesn't he or she leave Federal Service? I guess it's the "other" government that's the problem. Not his job.

[Mister Ed]

13. I've always wanted to ask someone who parrots that meme:

"So, if government is the problem, then the solution is...what? Anarchy?"

[Orrex]

15. Why, the Free Market, of course.

The Free Market is all things to all people, a pure and inviolable good.


Haven't you heard?

[Nye Bevan]

11. When did Cruz say he would deport IRS workers?

I Googled but could only find when he said he would redeploy them as border guards. Perhaps you could supply a link. Thanks!