None of us likes to be told What-to-do .... but the ad hominem attacks on “liberals” “gubmint” “Bureaucrats” are simply inflammatory and ignorant, and reflect poorly on the writer. Unless you’ve worked in a government job alongside those workers I doubt you know anything other than imagined frustration, or are joining a chorus of other disgruntled ignorants. Don’t fall into that trap.
I’ve worked there (gov’t jobs) during periods when my industry jobs laid off and was pleasantly surprised to find virtually ALL of those “bureaucrats” I used to think poorly of ... are actually dedicated, talented, and efficient. Their reputation suffers because their JOB is to serve a public that doesn’t understand the constraints their job places upon them. Example: It is ILLEGAL for a gov’t worker to tell you how or encourage you to violate the law. It is their JOB to educate us about, and as to how we can comply with the law. If they did anything else, YOU would be mad as hell at them for taking their paycheck (which is lower than what they’d make in similar jobs in industry) while violating the law by doing something which allows your competitor to get around regulations with which YOU have to comply. I learned a lot about and from those gov’t workers and left the job with admiration for virtually all I worked with.
If you don’t like emission controls on tractors, let’s get unified and contact our legislators and get exemptions for agricultural equipment.
I’ve worked there (gov’t jobs) during periods when my industry jobs laid off and was pleasantly surprised to find virtually ALL of those “bureaucrats” I used to think poorly of ... are actually dedicated, talented, and efficient. Their reputation suffers because their JOB is to serve a public that doesn’t understand the constraints their job places upon them. Example: It is ILLEGAL for a gov’t worker to tell you how or encourage you to violate the law. It is their JOB to educate us about, and as to how we can comply with the law. If they did anything else, YOU would be mad as hell at them for taking their paycheck (which is lower than what they’d make in similar jobs in industry) while violating the law by doing something which allows your competitor to get around regulations with which YOU have to comply. I learned a lot about and from those gov’t workers and left the job with admiration for virtually all I worked with.
If you don’t like emission controls on tractors, let’s get unified and contact our legislators and get exemptions for agricultural equipment.
