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To: roguedolphin who wrote (291192)	11/13/2010 2:38:13 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 306849

rogue, i think this is likely a psy-op. the elites know that the looted masses will need a scape goat when their looted condition is finally revealed. beck is going after unions. federal workers are being made into rich fat cats... a perfect set up to blame these people so that the real elites - the royal families, the rockefellers, the rothschilds get off free for their crimes against humanity. yes, the people pulling $150k and pensions worth more than that are an issue, but they are the symptom of the problem, not the cause of the problem. we need to zero in the on the CAUSE of the problem and not let them distract us. the ROOT CAUSE IS THE GROUP OF BIG CAPITAL VIPERS (HT TO JEFFERSON) THAT CONTROL THE FED, THE BANKING SYSTEM AND THE MAJOR CORPORATIONS, AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT. they orchestrated this... and they need to be held account.

To: roguedolphin who wrote (291192)	11/13/2010 12:32:32 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 306849

<<Some government employees provide good and useful service. Most probably work hard at jobs that aren’t worth doing.>> Where do people get these ideas there are a bunch of over paid people working at government jobs not worth doing? I worked in government off and on for 30 years. Everyone I saw was doing necessary work. What I saw more often was people being overworked because legislatures hack government budgets across the board (say 10%)without knowing what is needed. What usually happens, is Department budgets are cut across the board then the commissioners must find places to cut. As their job depends on other people, positions that are not addressing a crises, or do not get a lot of political pressure get cut first. E.g. they will cut a state land surveyor because they can delay that work, but they must have financial officers. E.g. take state land issues regarding leases, easements and accretion. In my state there are two people where there should be about 20. And we are rich. If you need or want to get a lease on government land, file for accreted land, or need an easement, say for a house encroching state land or a sewer crossing state land, you are looking at 6 to 10 years. It is an area that has no political lobby, or is something that needs immediate attention like financial officers, so departments cut these positions. The last land deal I did, regarding a lease on accreted state land illegally filled, the lease was filed in 2006 and has still not even been taken up. 200 cases are ahead of it. The truth is that people want social services, but do not want to pay for them. Usually people do not even think about what social services they depend on like police, fire, bridges, drivers licenses, deed recordings, water, sewer, snow plowing, ambulances, EMT's, mental health facilities, building inspectors, orphanes and on and on and on.