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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was born and raised in a very middle class suburb of Detroit. I graduated at the top of my high school class, got a scholarship to an Ivy League school, and moved away from Michigan never to return for longer than a couple of weeks for a few summers. Fast forward 25 years, my husband is from similar circumstances, we met here in DC and are both GS-15s. I've been proud to be s civil servant and have worked pretty hard to provide high quality services through my department.

In this election season I've been totally shocked by the level of fury and anger directed at Washington, "the system", and even me personally by my hometown friends on both the left and right. They hate us. One woman I haven't seen in 20 years called me a cancer who would need to be removed once Donald Trump gained the presidency after I posted something fairly neutral on the election, the Bernie supporters were pretty similar.

Frankly my husband and I could have had more lucrative careers in the private sector like many of my college and law school classmates but we came to government out of a sense of patriotism and civic duty. I work hard because I want our government to function well, I had no idea how many people assumed I am a lazy drain on the economy.

What have we done to earn this vitriol and how do we change this perception?[/quote]  http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/opinions/why-do-americans-hate-hillary-rogan-opinion/

Because some things that happen with our govt defy basic logic.  Harry Reid writing ACA?  Bill Clinton even recognized the problem.  Obama commuting meth dealer sentences.  San Bernadino and Pulse as unlikely spots for radical Islamic terrorism, "workplace violence " at Ft Hood,  visa waiver program , Somali Minnesota Isil recruits, jobs to Mexico [how many companies make HVAC units?], cities going to..., tax code, immigration-illegals, etc.

Federal employees in DC tainted with just being in DC with it's big bloated failed schools ...people assume there are many employed by the govt who do a 1/2 job and get paid.  2013 fed employees by state: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/federal-employees-workforce-numbers-by-state.html   I see jobs that could be located in other areas of the country?

DC is odd. Even the metro.  Silver line extension is using the same couplers [orange?] that failed and need to be replaced on other sections of track.[/quote]

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