Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Unplugged Date:   12/16/2016 9:10:41 AM

I will agree that private entities do have the ability to fire people who are causing a problem. Of course, that blade cuts both ways and you could be fired because your boss simply doesn't like you.

But I have to counter your concept that everyone working for the government is lazy and does nothing and cheats the system every chance they get.  There are a lot of dedicated people and remember, you only hear about the bad ones.  My sister works for the Army.  Two Saturdays ago, she fell and broke her knee cap and had to have surgery last week. When I spoke to her on the phone, her biggest worry was how to get to work, because she had something due and didn't want to slough it off  on her coworkers. She has a ton of sick leave, and could easily take the rest of the month off, since she is in a cast and cannot bend her knee.  But she went back to work on Monday, fell in the parking lot at work on Tuesday but still managed to get up and get to her office, despite being in pain. My point is this, there are a lot of good people too, who care about the work.

I had a woman that once worked for me who used to come to work after chemo treatments, because she believed in getting her job done.

It's just that we remember the goof-offs, the crazies, the lazy, and don't often remember all the times people came through.  When I shop, I don't remember all the times things went without a hitch, but I certainly remember the time Walmart Pharmacy screwed up and the clerk got an  attitude and I  demanded to speak to a manager. 

I don't know anything about the EPA, and cannot comment on their people or their organization. One of the burdens I'm sure that they live with is the huge number of environmental lobbying and activists groups wanting this or that regulation or law to protect the environment.  And their are many examples where companies have dumped chemicals onto the ground or water, polluting the drinking water for many.  So lets not be too quick to abolish them.  Maybe they need to be refocused.