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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	BTW Hound
	Date:	2/22/2011 8:09:47 AM

What I hear you saying is that you had a problem with the EPA. One person in the EPA?

I've dealt with State, Treasury, FBI, CIA, Commerce, VA, IRS, Energy. Have I met people that I thought were incompetent? Yes. Jerks? Yes. But those few people don't make up the whole. From what I have heard from other people, the EPA must be the worst agency in the whole federal government.

For every one jerk I've dealt with, I've worked with another 50 people who were committed, intelligent and dedicated.

Just about like my experience with private industry. When I was working with technology security, I actually had private industry people come into my office to discuss their vague license request. They thought they wanted to work with a foreign company in a sensitive technology area -- what did they want to discuss? They didn't know. Well, what do you think you want to talk about? "don't know". Really, are you planning to go sit in their conference room with nothing to talk about? NO COMMON SENSE. (BTW, the correct answer is that one starts with what they know they will discuss -- the very basis, and amend the license as the discussions develop)

Or the company that signed a contract to build a specialized tank for an Asian country -- a PRODUCTION contract, for an item that they had never built. It "looked" like it would work on paper. It didn't. The foreign country was pretty upset when it didn't work. Came to the USG looking for help. Almost an international incident. USG bailed them out.

My point is that not everyone that works for private industry is productive, smart and
committed. Not everyone that works for the government is a lump. I had numerous offers to move to private industry over the years.