Most government employees make less than their commercial counterparts, but what makes government service attractive is the job security. With Trump threatening to slash budgets, people see reductions in force actions happening more often. If job security isn't there, why not go to the private sector?

"I don't see "straight" being celebrated anywhere in the country, so fuck off." You don't? I think they call it Valentines Days, perhaps you missed it?

As much as we as private citizens complain about the limitations of having to deal with ISP, imagine that all of your critical services have to deal with them as well. Although a higher priority, it's still leased through private companies. Any long-distance service is dependent upon private providers, even critical military communications. Let that sink in a second, even though encrypted, all military traffic eventually passing through a privately owned ISP. It's about time the monetization of a vital infrastructure ended and the internet is seen as the utility is should be.

Because Obama wouldn't have done it.

If you want to set a value of a particular degree compared to another, be prepared to establish standards of pricing for everything needed to provide that degree. If we don't have a comprehensive understanding of the cost of education, we get what we have in healthcare where no one knew what their treatment cost until they bought it.

"But apparently if I call an afro-american "black" that makes me a racist. And I'm not really happy about being called that." By who? I bet no one has ever called you racist for calling someone Black. I bet you were called racist for using other, more colorful adjectives.

It wasn't Social Justice Warriors that tried to remove slavery from American history books. https://www.theguardian.com/ed...

You seem to not have a clear understanding of what a lie is. It was the Intel community that there may be blackmail material against Trump. It was Time Magazine who first reported the MLK bust was gone. And after it was reveled that Donna Brazil had passed information to the Clinton campaign, she was promptly fired, unlike anyone who lies in the Trump administration. I'm sure you would like to muddy the comparison between errors and lies, but people still have access to dictionaries to know the difference.

A "Big Brother" that spies on you in secret still fears you. It's when they don't care about secrecy that you have to start worrying.

Only a fool doesn't question the motives of his leaders, but who am I telling that to?

It was never one thing. The GOP had 8 years to craft a strategy against HRC. They knew she would be running after Obama and keeping the negative spot light on her was second only to discrediting the Obama administration. Clinton was no "shittier" than any other politician, so the only way for the GOP to win was to indict politicians as a whole. This lead to Trumps win and even thought it was not the way they wanted it, they were more than willing to jump on the bandwagon.

It is an idealistic notion of one-man, one-vote until you realize that the person who studies the issues, understands the world views, and makes an educated choice has the same vote as a person who makes their choice based on rumors and colorful advertisements. Clearly being liked is far more important to far more people than being qualified for elected office.

Wait! Benghazi what? Lets not go into wasting millions of tax payer dollars.

Let me quote "Good Luck With That" You have a Republican House and Senate who signed a pledge to support their candidate. Any one who doesn't fall in line will see their re-election bids vanish as Trump outs them to their constituents. Lets see how those checks and balances hold up against a "Mandate"

"If a lady has looks, she doesn't have to work so hard." How are you even part of this discussion?