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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Federal employees have extremely niche knowledge based on the congressionally mandated functions their offices must carry out.  Many are simply irreplaceable.  I’m sad for the American people right now.[/quote]

Is that really true? Why is it that federal employees are supposedly irreplaceable? If their knowledge is so niche that no one outside of the government values it, doesn’t that just mean the government has created a circular system where jobs exist mainly to sustain themselves rather than serving a broader purpose? In the private sector, even the most specialized experts can be replaced or their knowledge can be transferred. Why should government jobs be any different?

If a role is truly valuable, wouldn’t you expect demand for those skills outside of government? In industries like healthcare, engineering, or IT, professionals move between public and private roles all the time because their expertise is needed in both. But if someone’s entire career revolves around understanding a bureaucratic process that only exists within the federal government, maybe that’s a sign the system is bloated rather than essential. [b]If certain functions were really vital to the American people, private industry or state governments would step in to continue that work[/b].[/quote]

So federal law has no function? Or do you think private industry will continue to follow federal law out of the goodness of their hearts— with no enforcement whatsoever?

Or I suppose you think federal law and regulation is useless. Why have it at all, then. Do you know what kind of country that is? Have you lived in a country like that? I have. I’ve lived in several that have weak or failing central governments. It made me grateful to be from here. [/quote]

I never said that. I said that if government-funded research isn’t found useful to the private sector, something is wrong. If no one outside of government sees value in it, maybe it’s not as essential as some think.

I don’t know where you got the idea that this is about law enforcement. This discussion is about research—specifically the claim that certain areas of research would never happen without government funding. If a field of study has real value, private industry, universities, or philanthropic organizations will support it. If the only reason a research job exists is because the government created it and no one else would fund it, then maybe that says more about the system than the necessity of the research itself.[/quote]

You are the biggest idiot on the planet. Private companies lack the incentive structure to fund longterm research in many cases, which is why the govt steps in. You can thank the govt for gps, the internet, the flu shot and many other vaccines, Doppler radar, smart phones the list goes on and on. [/quote]

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