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Having worked for the federal government as an employee and a contractor, my experience is that while there are certainly people leaning on their shovels all da
by empath75 8y ago
Having worked for the federal government as an employee and a contractor, my experience is that while there are certainly people leaning on their shovels all day collecting a paycheck for doing almost nothing, the vast, vast majority of people are ethical and honest and trying to do the right thing.
- perfmode 8y agoSure there are good apples. It’s the system we ought to concern ourselves with. Does the system incentivize the shovel-leaners?
- 4ntonius8lock 8y agoI never said anything to the contrary. Interesting to see you feel the need to state this here. To reply to you: I've known a number of drug dealers and the vast majority are honest, ethical and trying to do the right thing.
- barrkel 8y agoThat's deeply offensive. You're all but directly implying that civil servants are like drug dealers.
- barry-cotter 8y agoThat’s deeply offensive. You’re saying there’s something wrong with selling something people want to the people who want it.
- 4ntonius8lock 8y agoWell, I posted a fact: leniency toward government official misbehavior. empath75 posted a fact in a reply to my fact: most government employees are good. The fact doesn't contradict mine directly, but it came across as a rebuttal. There's a pattern to this type of answers. It's 'throwing true facts out there that sort of contradict a point without having to actually address the point being made, and if anyone takes the bait, you can always say there was never any contradiction being made, it was just a statement of facts'. So I did the same. I posted a totally true fact that sort of rebuts the point without having to address the point being brought up. I prefer a point-counter point types of conversation. Edit: I don't think civil servants are like drug dealers.