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Is there life
after the next election?
By Mike Causey
July 22, 2016
Despite previous warnings about a government meltdown if you-know-who
wins the November election, Uncle Sam keeps on keeping on regardless of
who’s in the White House and which political party controls the House
and Senate. You-know-who’s identity depends on your politics and
perception, not necessarily on your psychic powers or past track record
in picking winners.
How many of us predicted that Donald Trump would ultimately get the
most votes, or that Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) would give the former
Secretary of State such a run for her money?
Most of the so-called experts were dead wrong. Including every
candidate who opposed Trump. Except candidate Trump.
Much of the media has switched to telling us — the voters — how stupid
we were, and will continue to be if the wrong person wins in November.
The usual suspects of celebrities have (some for the second or third
time) announced they will leave United States if the voters get it
wrong. In their opinion.
Like the long-predicted federal government retirement tsunami (the
first alarms went off in the late 90s) life has gone on. The government
has a hard time getting new blood in part because feds who were
supposed to be wearing spandex on shuffle-board courts are still coming
to work. The EPA remains up and running. The Defense Department is
still a very big operation. The IRS, while bloodied and beaten (which
some applaud and others decry), is still with us.
Most federal and postal unions, as usual, backed one of the Democratic
candidates. But one, AFGE’s National Border Patrol Council,
representing 18,000 of the union’s frontline members, gave its official
stamp of approval to Trump, much to the consternation of the
parent union’s top leadership.
In the heyday of newspapers (those wrinkly things your father reads)
the motto was “if it bleeds, it leads,” meaning bad news is always more
interesting than good news. While gloom-and-doom sells, and prevails,
in the runup to any national election, past predictions of disaster
have, as Mark Twain said while reading his obituary, nearly always been
wrong in size and scope.
So should feds be more concerned about their future than people don’t
work for the government? Or those who are retired, or maybe in grade or
high school? What do you think?
Are you planning to exit the U.S. of A., or expecting to lose your job
if the wrong person wins? If so, let us know your plans.
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