Republican government employees

[SHRED]

I work in Public Works for a city here in Southern California.
Many of my co-workers vote and are registered as Republicans.

Do any of you suffer with this insanity being a public employee?
Do any of you have to work with people who vote against their own interests in such a stark degree?

I am so frustrated at times at the willful ignorance.
An ignorance that will vote to place people in power that want to contract out their careers. They are willing to slice their own necks and it is sick to witness.

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[brewens]

1. Just like all the union Republican mill workers I know. Actually

many do not belong to the union but work at the mill anyway. They get all the benefits but don't pay the dues. They think they are working class heroes and are paid well just because that's what is fair and it's always been that way.

[Catshrink]

2. Same thing with a lot of our teachers

they love the benefits and other things we negotiate but won't join. These are tough times and workers should be uniting against the anti-union, pro-privatization efforts. I think they're freeloaders.

[RKP5637]

3. Never ceases to amaze me. Ignorance thrives at all levels in all places. In places

I've worked the R's were the first to make sure they got every benefit in a layoff, when most of those benefits had been made possible by unions and democrats. And they strut off so F'en proud they are R's and REAL Americans. Makes me puke... So ignorant they don't even know why those benefits exist.

[SharonAnn]

4. Virtually all county, city, and teaching employees here are Republican.

And they take very good care of themselves.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Yep, I work with a few Repub government employees

One actually wants to be a teabagger. He actually has talked about how the government shouldn't be paying for anything, and doesn't see the conflict in working for the government and his position. However, we don't talk politics at all at work, which is a good thing, so I can work with him.

[MajorChode]

6. As if it isn't bad enough to vote against everyone else's interests

[R. P. McMurphy]

7. I work for a small city in East Tennessee.

Even when I point out the logical inconsistencies in their statements they still fall back to the comfort of their brainwashing. Hey, you don't really have to think and I guess it makes you feel superior to your fellow man somehow.

[SHRED]

8. Do you find that they...

...try and justify themselves by claiming, "but we are not like other cities" or, "It is the Federal government".

It's always someone or something "out there" with my Repub co-workers.
And they listen to that damn AM talk radio filth.

[ThomWV]

9. I worked at a Federal facility with 1,000 employees, and 3/4s of them were Republicans

The were a self-loathing bunch of bigots who were intolerant and intolerable. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

[PassingFair]

10. Like my city-employed, union-protected brother?

Who constantly bitches about the city and unions?

He's a "Libertarian", though, because he can't defend
his republican "values" to the rest of the family.

[SHRED]

11. Tell him to "cut government spending"

Tell him to give up his health insurance benefit and go to the private sector market, or better yet, tell him to quit his government job to save the tax payer even more.

LOL