Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Hound Date:   12/12/2016 12:12:41 PM

I'm not sure with its budget, Defense is a small cog in the wheel.  :-)

I don't know about now, but at the time I went to work in the government, the vast majority of people that went to work there, did so because they wanted to make a difference for their country.  Maybe it is different, because you know if you don't do your job, soldiers, sailors and airmen might die.  Also because you don't get to go around saying "can't", "no", "not my job".  Now I would be the last person to say that Defense is perfect and everyone that works there is high minded and dedicated. I had some senior employees that had to be "encouraged" to take their retirement, because they were dead wood.

My experience with SS and VA has been terrible and it always makes me angry because that is why so many people take a dim view of government employees - the lack of committment.  These are the people that perhaps take the job to sit around and do nothing.  I'm sure they are in other departments too, and that's why those agencies and departements may be on the cutting block.  Yes, some of them get overly passionate with their regulations, but please don't discount Congress's role there too.  One letter from a constituate and the next thing you know, you are directed to write regulations and set up "oversight" jobs.  In my view, Congress does more harm than good and that is why I am passionately in favor of term limits.