That’s funny because government workers are goldbrickers, yeah yeah. But the reality is that just like Lumbergh had ways to make Milton Waddams’s life unbearable, there is no shortage of ways that political appointees can make even the laziest government employee’s life terrible. Or for your sake to make an It’s…

You have point, and contractors in a lot of ways are the worst. They get the huge federal contracts and skew a lot more conservative, frequently hate government spending, except of course on themselves. It’s always the other guys who are the deadweight.

This isn’t regular times. The GOP strategy is going to follow what they’ve done in Wisconsin, Kansas and other states. They are going to pass massive tax cuts which will blow up the deficit, and then use the deficit as a justification for austerity and slashing the federal payroll.

Fair enough. Some people can’t change, and if you’ve given them notice then it may well be time to do what you have to do.

You know all of the federal funding that’s keeping Metro, barely, just barely afloat? Kiss it goodbye. And if it’s not direct subsidies, it’s the mass transit funding for MD, VA and DC that’s getting cut so that their contribution is going downhill too. Good luck.

In the short term, you will have a lot of people who figure their jobs are safe, they’ve got 15 years to retire, what’s the big deal. Until they find that their health care premiums are going through the roof, their retirement plan is shot, and they’re stuck in an office with three people doing the work of seven due…

It’s going to be privatization. The GOP Congress wants to privatize Medicare first thing next year, and the VA is going to go the same way. But be clear the VA is going to be on the privatized prison model, not the single-payer health care model. It’s going to be horrible services provided on the cheap with a gloss of…

Just make it clear that it’s far, far more than voting Trump. People like that make martyrs of themselves and want to think it’s nothing but whining on the other side. Make it clear that it’s not Trump, it’s not even a few racist words, it’s the entire poisonous view of the world, and that is what they need to clean…

I used to be a federal employee, I’m married to one, and know lots. And one thing I can tell you is that there are a lot of conservative federal employees and I have no doubts that many voted for Trump. They’re a sizable minority, but they’re out there. And in my experience, they are going to be stunned when Trump and…