What unadultered BS from CAR. Go back and read the thread. I wasnt referring to public employees in a derrogatory way. I was referring to two specific workers who posters kept saying were sr level/executive types and I was simply trying to make the point that they were rank and file in their departments. Is calling them rank and file derrogatory also.

The elitist attitude toward people who do actual work is BS also. CAR beleives that you reward those who put their heads down and plow forward in their jobs day in and day out for years without taking risk of job or income loss. As soon as the word risk comes up, she automatically takes it to mean financial derivitive engineers and their ilk on Wall Street. I beleive in the capitalistic ideals this country was founded on. That taking risk with ones time and money to innovate is what should be rewarded. Instead of going to work with ATT (pre-privatization/break up of Baby Bells) that could mean joining a start-up in SD called QCOM not knowing if you would have a job next month. It could mean taking a job at a biotech start-up working on a cancer drug instead of working for the state toxicology lab. It could mean going to college and med school (most dont make it) instead of becoming an EMT. It could mean opening a new restaurant like Panera Bread instead of working as a cook at the employee cafeteria in the County Services building. When people take risk like that they more often than not fail and those that succeed should be rewarded. That is how innovation and progress occurs. That is what made this country great and will keep it great instead of being another failed Socialist regime like the USSR, East Germany etc.