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An open letter,

Which one of you did I see peeking out the window of Treasury last night while the protesters were in the streets? You kept coming to the window of the top floor and peering out at the number of protesters below.

They were probably nervous about the Reddit posters calling for them to be Luigi-ed.

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

I've been married to a federal worker for 25 years and I wish that were true. He works almost every weekend at home, he's had to go into the office more weekend than I can count, he's worked on vacations, he loses some of his PTO every year because he can't take it all, he didn't get to take any paternity leave with our second kid... And he could be making 3-4x his government salary in the private sector, because he is capped like all federal workers--he didn't even get a raise for many years because the federal schedule didn't budge. So I do mean this most sincerely, f*ck you and everyone else who thinks like you and/or voted for Trump.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Jeez, at least address them by their names rather than muskrats and use proper grammar and punctuation.

Those kids are smart.

Those kids don’t even know how to write a professional email.

Because they are young and just out of high school. Doesn't mean they aren't smart. They are just inexperienced.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Lmao you worked as contractor. You have no idea how the agency actually operates. Gtfo loser.

I dealt with the actually employees doing the work, day in day out for many years. I went to lunch with them. I helped them improve the processes. And I saw the culture first hand. DOD was the worst. The employees did not care if things worked, just that you followed the process. the office was empty, empty at 3:20. every day.

folks were, don't tell me to think, tell me what to do.

At DOD, the day starts at 7. As an attorney who started at Biglaw where the day starts between 9 and 10, that is insanely early to me, but to each their own.

yes starts at 7:00, and then 8 to 9 go to gym, and then 10:00 get coffee , and of course 30 min lunch .

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

You can look at Twitter and see that this statement is false.

Twitter works well for the dumb psychos who want a platform like that.

They didn't like when it was full of fact-checking, standards, and community guidelines.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Lmao you worked as contractor. You have no idea how the agency actually operates. Gtfo loser.

I dealt with the actually employees doing the work, day in day out for many years. I went to lunch with them. I helped them improve the processes. And I saw the culture first hand. DOD was the worst. The employees did not care if things worked, just that you followed the process. the office was empty, empty at 3:20. every day.

folks were, don't tell me to think, tell me what to do.

At DOD, the day starts at 7. As an attorney who started at Biglaw where the day starts between 9 and 10, that is insanely early to me, but to each their own.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Jeez, at least address them by their names rather than muskrats and use proper grammar and punctuation.

Those kids are smart.

Those kids don’t even know how to write a professional email.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Lmao you worked as contractor. You have no idea how the agency actually operates. Gtfo loser.

I dealt with the actually employees doing the work, day in day out for many years. I went to lunch with them. I helped them improve the processes. And I saw the culture first hand. DOD was the worst. The employees did not care if things worked, just that you followed the process. the office was empty, empty at 3:20. every day.

folks were, don't tell me to think, tell me what to do.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

You can look at Twitter and see that this statement is false.

factually wrong.

Twitter makes less money because Elon has alienated advertisers, yes.

But the site itself works better, is stable, is being upgraded consistently will little negatives, and is a great example that there was a lot of waste at that company.

The site itself is unreliable, overrun by bots, and hardly works at all anymore.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

You can look at Twitter and see that this statement is false.

factually wrong.

Twitter makes less money because Elon has alienated advertisers, yes.

But the site itself works better, is stable, is being upgraded consistently will little negatives, and is a great example that there was a lot of waste at that company.

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Lmao you worked as contractor. You have no idea how the agency actually operates. Gtfo loser.

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

Jeez, at least address them by their names rather than muskrats and use proper grammar and punctuation.

Those kids are smart.

Anonymous wrote:to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

You can look at Twitter and see that this statement is false.

to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste. Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week. They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work. You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!.

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission. stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful.

I hope you found DCUrbanMoms (and Dads) politics forum -

An open letter,

Which one of you did I see peeking out the window of Treasury last night while the protesters were in the streets? You kept coming to the window of the top floor and peering out at the number of protesters below. I noticed you'd watch the crowd for a bit, then dart back inside for a couple of minutes. You kept returning to the window though. I wondered how much you could hear from the streets below.

You are the same age as my own kids. You looked young and nervous. Much younger than the crowd of those people that were protesting. Many of us out there last night have lived and worked in DC. We are not your enemy. Most of us are teachers or scientists or engineers that have worked for decades for the citizens of the US to build and create and help direct the investments the US has decided to make in infrastructure.

I remember being your age and wanting to do something fabulous at that point in life. It's easy when you are nineteen or twenty and really bright to feel like you can accomplish something great. I suspect you might have gone into this with the best of intentions, but now after not sleeping for two weeks solid or maybe catching a bit of sleep on Elon's sofa beds, you might be starting to wonder what you got yourself into. Maybe you thought there was a lot of corruption to root out in the federal government and this felt like something you could do to help? Maybe it just felt like an intellectual challenge? I could tell when I saw you looking out the window last night that you were no longer sure this was a good idea.

Given your profiles, I suspect that you probably played a bunch of role player games in your younger years, so I'm going to put this in the language of character alignment. I've found that most young kids prefer to align themselves with lawful good or neutral good or chaotic good. Some will follow the rules; some are willing to break them just for the fun of breaking them. In all my years of teaching, I've never seen a kid consider themselves evil. I suspect when you started this you saw the task as chaotic good or lawful good depending on what you were initially told about the need to break the Deep State. There is no Deep State though. We are simply public servants who take our jobs seriously, whether it be building infrastructure, finding vaccines, feeding the poor, protecting art and antiquities, building satellites, or paying the bills for all the above.

Many young people make mistakes. That's the beauty of being young. You still have time to fix this, but your time is running out. How do you want to be remembered? Be brave. Don't just peer out from the windows of the Treasury. Put an SOS sign in the window or something! Join Alt National Park Service FB group. Call your parents. Your mom is probably worried. Lock Elon Musk in a closet. Tie him up on the sofa bed. Hide his stimulants. Better yet swap them out with something that puts him to sleep for a day so you can get help. As Mr. Rogers said, " Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." You probably even have addresses and phone numbers (and bank account numbers!) for every helper out there. Give one of us a call. Soon.

And finally as Gandalf said, "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." Me? I'll continue teaching those that some think should not be taught. Raising my kids to be lawful, neutral, or chaotic good. Building community and neighborhoods. I long ago gave up the thought of being famous and well known, but at least I won't be infamous.

What will you decide to do in the next few days?