re: Can someone explain the animosity towards Government workers?

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Welfare for corporations? 
So we give them money for having done nothing, because that’s what welfare is. 

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Corporate welfare isnt good, but it is necessary in some cases.

It is welfare because our taxes are subsidizing their employees. If they covered the full cost (healthcare,etc.) Of their employees then nobody would complain.

Louisiana is in a bind because we need incentives to keep the few businesses that are here. It's a tactical decision, but its made from a position of desperation not strength.

I believe in letting companies keep profit, but hold an expectation that they in turn will invest in us.

Probably federal workers who are paid more than their private counterparts

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but hold an expectation that they in turn will invest in us.

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Because you're a collectivist and a "society first" type

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I work for state gov and my office is a fricking machine.

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This is in Louisiana? Which office?

Every experience I have ever had with a state government bureaucrat in LA has been riddled with inefficiency and incompetence. If not by the specific individual with whom I’m dealing, then almost certainly by their staff or related bureaucracy.

The people that fill the halls of the Soviet style buildings in Baton Rouge are some of the most useless employees in the public sector. The bloat is unreal.

I have no doubt that the federal government is even worse. I cannot imagine the entitlement and performance cushions that those people have.

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 certain this has been stated multiple times, but have you ever been to the DMV? Needed to get a permit for anything? Tried to start and operate a business? Tried to get a tax refund from the LDR for unconstitutional double taxation on income earned out of state, only to be told to go pound sand? 

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Yes. I've read. And I hoped that my earlier response meant I agree with the general complaints.

Is there a higher percentage of government workers that are lazy? probably.

And yes the DMV is super slow. I'd rather pay a $100 fee for a faster service slow. Its the poster child of government practice.

I'm defending government jobs because they are the only jobs that pay decently in many areas ( look at my list, those are places I personally know of).

Oh, ok. whew.

I was about to proclaim you as a liar or miracle worker

Army Corp of Engineers' construction specification writers have gotten a $1,000,000 construction project spec book up to two volumes, three inches thick.

Their inspectors show up at the project with a cross, hammer and nails.

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You can get away with all types of stuff in govt jobs that you could never get away with in private jobs. Poor performers are carried and promoted as an example.

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This is a huge issue, but it starts with hiring practices. When people can manipulate applications and lie about qualifications, get hired, and go through a probationary period before they are figured out...at which point it's too late to fire them because of fear of a lawsuit...you have a problem.

Also, all they want to do when a problem gets too bad is put people on opportunity to improve plans over, and over, and over again.

There are good people in the government, just like in the private sector. They just get overshadowed by the bad.

I know a woman that just assumes anyone working for the government will eventually turn into a bureaucrat that sits on their hands and mooches off the public. Just like every other public employee she's know. I don't understand how someone can be that cynical about anyone working in a particular sector.

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Lazy, overpaid, bad entitled attitudes, corrupt, incompetent, ineffective. I'm sure there are more adjectives and expletives that I'm forgetting. But that's just the basic. Some of them I assume are good people.

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