An Overheard Conversation at the MSP Airport ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

62. I know ...

I've written this before; but it bears repeating ...

With the 2010 wave, one of my co-workers was beside herself with glee, loudly proclaiming that "the people have spoken" and "now we're gonna get smaller government and stop all this wasteful spending of money we just don't have!"

So I asked her if she could remember the last time she took a day off. She got a strange look on her face and replied, "I took a Sick day last week. Why?"

I replied, "that's funny ... I don't recall the office shutting down because you weren't here."

When she did not catch my point, I told her, &quot co-worker), you do realize that you are a government employee, right? In fact, you are a supervisor that supervises exactly one employee. So who do you suppose will lose their job if we get that smaller government that you long for?"

When I walked away, she still didn't seem to get my point ... But I see her just about everyday and she hasn't mentioned small government again. Maybe her middle school grand-daughter explained it to her?