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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (234111)	12/23/2009 12:54:38 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 306849

Yeah, I know a lot of government workers since I live in Maryland. The conversation we have about their various benefits always ends up rather, shall we say, heated. My friend who worked for SS for many years says they used to refer to people like me, self-employed, as having a "licence to steal". Ha! Clearly they never had to make that break even every month and live to tell about it. Maryland has basically outlawed anything close to resembling private enterprise. The largest employer here is the government in all its various layers and forms, followed by a non-profit, Johns Hopkins, as the state's largest private employer. Back in the 1980s and early 90s I worked on 60 corporate annual reports a year. Now it is almost all non-profit annual reports. The private employer corporate headquarters are almost all gone.