I am a government employee

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81. Welcome to DU, dawnie51!

So good to have you among us! WE fight, here on DU. WE fight. We're a relatively small fraction of the overall demographic pie, but we are all in this, pushing in the same direction. Unfortunately, you're correct about how the bad guys view government workers. They can't, don't, and won't make the connection that YOU folks are WORKING. That's not just dreaded government jobs - that's many people's EMPLOYMENT. Which enables them to go patronize local businesses, hell - even the Walmarts of the world, enables them to feed their kids and not go on the dreaded "dole," enables them to do the sanctified "personal responsibility" schtick these assholes blather about, over and over and over again. Those are people's JOBS. What difference does it make where they work? They're WORKING!!!!!!!! WORKING!!!!! I mean, isn't that what everybody wants? Everybody WORKING??? Don't even the bad guys at least SAY they want that, too?

So all that wonderful cutting-back-the-government crap is actually cutting off a lot of people's JOBS. You and your colleagues in government service were drawing paychecks that you used in your community to pay for stuff, and keep grocery stores and restaurants and hardware stores and gizmo stores and other businesses afloat, and pay taxes that fund things that most of us agree are good to have and desirable and convenient and even essential to the preservation of life on this planet as well as in our neighborhoods. And they're basically against that, with their myopic "vision" and their short-sighted worldview and their selfish, penny-wise/pound-foolish absurdist, unrealistic, ill-conceived, and willfully-ignorant opinions.

And somehow THAT is what's leading all this.