Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
A number pulled out of thin air, with seemingly no awareness of what that would do, or how it would completely gut the economy with that many people unemployed.
I say pulled out of "thin air" to keep it polite.
A drastic reduction in the size and scope of our federal government would be like sprinkling miracle-gro on the economy.
Race is never a qualifier when I talk about lazy, corrupt and useless government employees.
Im glad its not for you but for many people it is. This convoluted image that some people have in their mind of the lazy, incompetent, Black woman at the DMV who feels entitled because she holds a government position.
I get the feeling sometimes that some people would prefer that these people work 2-3 jobs at McDonalds or Wal-Mart with just enough money to afford rent and perhaps a meal or two a day. Forget sending their children to college or even paying for medical expenses. If they get too sick to work they can just drop dead. Completely expendable. Its like they want to live in a dual economy. An economy like Norway for themselves and their children...and an economy like Somalia for everyone else.
There is an even higher overrepresentation of Anglo-Saxon and Jewish people in the top positions of finance and government. They are running things so the buck stops with them, not some fat loud mouthed ingrate in "social service".
What is the point of talking about meaningless trivia? Next time talk about a specific institution or person (not race) who is doing something harmful and then we will understand where the outrage comes from.
Im glad its not for you but for many people it is. This convoluted image that some people have in their mind of the lazy, incompetent, Black woman at the DMV who feels entitled because she holds a government position.
I get the feeling sometimes that some people would prefer that these people work 2-3 jobs at McDonalds or Wal-Mart with just enough money to afford rent and perhaps a meal or two a day. Forget sending their children to college or even paying for medical expenses. If they get too sick to work they can just drop dead. Completely expendable. Its like they want to live in a dual economy. An economy like Norway for themselves and their children...and a economy like Somalia for everyone else.
All government employees are parasites and a drain on a productive society. Sex, race etc.are irrelevent.
Even though statistically speaking Blacks are not overrespresented in the federal government there seems to be a push with this notion that Blacks are overrespresented. We often hear code words such as "lazy" and "inefficient" when referring to lower level federal employees. These code words were in fact pervasive during the reconstruction era...psychological programming used to keep blacks in the lowest level servile positions and out of federal and state government.
I have to ask, if the federal government was 98% white on all levels of representation would there be such a push to cut federal jobs? Why are people so eager to push people out of work that historically have been disenfranchised? The corporate sector is overwhelmingly white. Where do you suppose these people will go? When we choose to lay off millions and millions of low/mid level federal minority workers...were will they go to find a job?
I'm not real big on the race-bait threads actually, but in this case I'll bite ..
Government employees are low, lazy and crass (without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid) .. Government employees come in all colors by the way .. Even if they were all white (a good portion of government employees "are" white incidently), they wouldn't escape the description I've given above.
As soon as the government begins to downsize .. (which will happen sooner than most think) .. all of these government employees will be turned loose on the rest of us .. we'll be forced into having to compete with the slow and the dimwitted .. the people who have no skills beyond the bureaucratic.
Austin thinks more black people than ever before could fall out of the middle class because the unemployment rate for college-educated blacks recently peaked and blacks are overrepresented in state and local government jobs. Those are jobs that are being eliminated because of massive budget shortfalls.
I have no problem with Black-Americans working in gov't jobs. The problem seems to be the lack of diversity of the Black middle class.
Yes the Black middle class is overreprsented in gov't jobs and underrepresented as entreprenures it seems. We need alot more of the Black middle class to use their college education to go into business creating more jobs for themselves and others. The Black unemployment rate has to be affected by the lack of Blacks going into business. These middle class Blacks with their eduction could be starting larger well run businesses that could be employing alot more of the Black unemployed that we keep hearing about. So I'd like to see the Black middle class diversify as far as working in both the public and private sectors especially as job creating entreprenurs in the Black community. Also,being overrepresented in the public sector keeps making the Black middle class more vulnerable to those budget cuts.
Last edited by Motion; 08-06-2011 at 08:43 PM..
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
