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I live here, the DC region manufactures nothing. It is all federal government - government can spend all the money in the world and not show a return on a dime of it. Most government employees push buttons on a keyboard and that's their jobs. I bet most of the country would like a gravy job to sleep at until retirement age. The federal government has become a service industry which services very few. The DC region is the richest in the nation because the federal government has all the spending money. A lot of it goes to overpaid recipients who do about 10 hours work a week. Been here 40 years and have seen it far too often.
I live here, the DC region manufactures nothing. It is all federal government - government can spend all the money in the world and not show a return on a dime of it. Most government employees push buttons on a keyboard and that's their jobs. I bet most of the country would like a gravy job to sleep at until retirement age. The federal government has become a service industry which services very few. The DC region is the richest in the nation because the federal government has all the spending money. A lot of it goes to overpaid recipients who do about 10 hours work a week. Been here 40 years and have seen it far too often.
DC is rich because of lobbying, not the federal employees.
I live here, the DC region manufactures nothing. It is all federal government - government can spend all the money in the world and not show a return on a dime of it. Most government employees push buttons on a keyboard and that's their jobs. I bet most of the country would like a gravy job to sleep at until retirement age. The federal government has become a service industry which services very few. The DC region is the richest in the nation because the federal government has all the spending money. A lot of it goes to overpaid recipients who do about 10 hours work a week. Been here 40 years and have seen it far too often.
When I was in college my dad hooked me up with a cushy internship at the Superior Court in Boston. I literally did maybe two hours of productive work a day and the rest of the time I sat around and looked busy. My co-workers actually told me not to get too much work done because if an auditor came in and saw people sitting around, they might recommend job cuts. So they would make a one-hour stack of work take six hours to complete. And we wonder why government is so inefficient...
Rome's downfall was their 1% controlled most of the land and wealth and paid no taxes. The self serving fat cats destroyed the economy, increased their land holdings forcing peasants to the cities (the Roman mob), and when the barbarians were at the gate the masses had no loyalty to the government or incentive to protect the state. The Roman's trickle down economy and tax breaks for the rich contributed to their demise.
Wow, talk about revisionist history. Who knew that the GOP was responsible for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? Thanks for that education. I better go vote Democrat now!
And you missed my point. No we aren't going the way of Rome.
until people start treating the USA as a Constitutional republic like it was meant to be and stop treating the USA as a democracy, the USA is doomed, as no democracy has ever lasted.
until people start treating the USA as a Constitutional republic like it was meant to be and stop treating the USA as a democracy, the USA is doomed, as no democracy has ever lasted.
Umm, we don't act as a democracy either. We're an Oligarchy.
We're already Rome. We are just waiting for our international creditors to pull the plug, but they don't want to do it too quickly, because they know how damaging it will be.
And no, white people, the Republicans aren't going to save anything. They are just interesting in more dollars and big federal government subsidies for their corporations. They don't give a care about you and never did.
When I was in college my dad hooked me up with a cushy internship at the Superior Court in Boston. I literally did maybe two hours of productive work a day and the rest of the time I sat around and looked busy. My co-workers actually told me not to get too much work done because if an auditor came in and saw people sitting around, they might recommend job cuts. So they would make a one-hour stack of work take six hours to complete. And we wonder why government is so inefficient...
My first government drilling contract came in under budget.
I was proud when I called to let them know.
The man told me NEVER do that........their funds would be reduced.
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