... and became a full time writer. Pay is better and I'm not dependent on a bunch of asshole politicians. I miss the work though. It was important stuff. It saved the government a lot of money. Made a lot of people's lives better. I was good at it. But... 2/
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...I have bills to pay, people depend on me. I couldn't work like that. So I took my nearly 30 years experience in military operations and I left. And that's what is going to happen here. Those with the experience and the skills are going to bail out in disgust. 3/
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This shutdown, the second in less than a year, the miserable conditions, the broken promises, the lies, and the continuing failure of leadership and management will force your best people out of government. It will. It *IS* 4/
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And then your government will become even MORE broken, more dysfunctional, more inefficient, more expensive, and even less accountable. 5/
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In that failed state, the oligarchs run free, the ruthless rise to the top unchecked, the rich get richer and the poor get so very much poorer and the middle class vanishes. And we become Russia. 6/
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We become America of the Robber Barons, the America of the 1920's, when a handful of the fabulously wealthy owned everything, there was no middle class, and the poor paid the rich for the privilege of eating out of their garbage cans. That's what's coming. 7/
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That is what is coming. I warned about this when you gave the House to the Tea Party and the Senate to Mitch McConnell because you were mad at Obama. This is what's coming. Unless you start showing the fuck up and doing your duty to the Republic. 8/8
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Addendum: You think I'm engaged in hyperbole? If you open your fucking eyes, you can literally watch it happen. Here's another example:https://twitter.com/maxabelson/status/1085522383291797504 …
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My understanding is government contractors don't get reimbursed and there are millions of them. Why isn't that a bigger story do you think?
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Wait until we see the unemployment statistics come out.
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