Labels

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Class Warfare: The Exploitation of Taxpayers by Federal Workers - LewRockwell

(Imagine that - a federal government employee might have to look for a job - like ordinary Americans - that is so unseemly  for someone in government service! After all, they have had to sacrifice everything to provide their service to government and country.....even give up poverty and living paycheck to paycheck. The nerve of these new Trumpsters persecuting our heroes of government service is beyond the pale! - CL)

Read full text:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/ryan-mcmaken/class-warfare-the-exploitation-of-taxpayers-by-federal-workers/ 

The media interviews, lawsuits, protests, and open letters all hit on a similar theme: that it is wrong and unfair that taxpayer-funded government workers might have to look for work in the marketplace like ordinary people. Regular workers, after all—the type without federal jobs from which, historically, it is virtually impossible to be fired—often have to change jobs whenever there is a restructuring, merger, bankruptcy, or budget cut. This is life outside the comfortable fantasy world of federal employment. Naturally, federal employees don’t like the sound of that at all.