I was thinking about doing this and then I got a text from one of you which I will discuss later on. So I looked up the equivalency between my senior executive service grade and what would be my military rank and it was a two star general. Now let’s compare the benefits the military equivalency gets. I had a decent office and two secretaries who were not my personal secretaries but for the entire division. I didn’t have an aide or a public affairs officer or a paid mansion paid for by taxpayers with gardeners and landscapers and housekeepers and free meals at the officer’s mess and free air travel on private military planes. Get your own coffee and wipe your own ass and use your salary to pay for your own house and expenses. This is just one example of how bloated the pentagon budget is.

Now the text I received from one follower who I actually worked with in my agency and still lives in the DC area was concerned with the depression in the DC area that could result from getting rid of all the unnecessary bureaucrats. And I saw that in a few places today. My answer is that you have no right to have us pay you for a make work job. The federal government is not supposed to be a national welfare agency. And if Trump carries through on his promise to move all the agencies out of DC and to more appropriate places in the country where they will be surrounded by the people they are supposed to serve, the same thing will happen. Hell you could hire them to help build the wall like with the CCC in the thirties.

Now one of her concerns, and btw she is retired and would only be affected by the reduction in the inflated real estate prices in the area, is that there would be a lot of people out of work and where would they get jobs. Well to start with Trump is going to deport a lot of people which would free up a lot of jobs, and there are a few million skilled jobs that are unfilled at this time. Learn a skill that is worthwhile and you’ll be fine.

Another benefit is that it would get all the federal rats out of northern Virginia and make that state red again. It would probably have a large effect on Maryland also. Anyway I’m not concerned about people who are getting paid by my tax dollars to do essentially nothing.