I think I'm going to vomit.

#WeCantWait to start another housing bubble.

#WeCantWait We can't hardly wait.

Gonna rant here.

I take offense. Let me give you Your Government at work since nobody seems to know what any of that means.

I work for you. I am a federal civilian. I work for the Executive branch.

On a day to day basis, I meet with people of vastly different creeds, races, religions, political beliefs, etc. I consider it a privilege to have learned much of what I know from two black supervisors and to work for a jewish woman currently. I myself am white and my father was USAF. The grand lesson here is that everyone is capable and everyone has something to offer.

Also I am a taxpayer! This may come as some surprise, but I do in fact pay my taxes. Indeed, I consider it my patriotic duty.

My primary motivation is performance. Whatever it is I do, I always feel that I have not done enough. Tomorrow I will do more, I say to myself, and every sunrise finds me pumped to prove the baseline expectation wrong. We can do better than what we're doing, I assure you; a big part of the problem we face currently is the fact that the elderly senior staff by and large hates the digital world and insists on hard-copy records. No lie: I did today in five minutes a task that would have taken at least a week under the old paper-only methods. However, it will take weeks, maybe even months, to train those who came before me. These are people maxed out not just on grade but on step as well; I'm training people who did the work for years and they make almost twice as much as I do because they've been here since before I was in high school. Here's the silly thing: despite the hem and haw about performance, it is never rewarded. And the pay systems designed to reward performance are immediately co-opted by Ye Olde Networke of pals whose only purpose was to inflate their own sense of being. We sing this bastard song and never do anything legitimate to amend our problems. The doers continue to do, and the farkers continue to fark. There's your performance-based pay.

The worst thing I saw in my time so far was the fact that our best worker left for more pay. That's normally to be expected if it is for pay alone. But she was held back due to a hiring freeze implemented because of the crappy economy. The old folks who did dick-all sat on their fatasses while she stewed in place. When she was given an opportunity to play with the fatties (with no more pay, mind), she ran circles around them. She cut and ran from us because in almost three years we couldn't provide her any growth. I feel like Ronald McDonald is running this show. I wish I wanted fries with that.

Yukon Callmeal: Oh, cool. The modadmin with the TPM fetish is around. Our nightmare of not knowing what the next Democrat talking point should be is finally over.

The next Republican talking point is to insult anyone who disagrees with you.

Is this really the path you wish to follow? It ends poorly.

I would wish for the GOP convention to be stricken with a virulent case of amoebic dysentery coupled with throbbing, aching, bleeding piles but that might not sideline enough actual Congresspeople and Senators for my liking.

tenpoundsofcheese: sounds like the government is badly run.

Parts of it are. I won't kid around, parts of it are shockingly badly run.

But to think that the answer is the abolition of entire departments? That's beyond absurd.

A bad system is not repaired by bad ideas. A bad system is not repaired by wholesale deletion.

Anti-regulation legislation? How many failed policies can Republicans support?

/The answer is "All of them".