Parody of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" written and performed by Remy.
LYRICS:
Psst
I pay dead people
You think you're getting rid of us federal employees?
Think again…working from home, mustard on my tee, no
Ain't going back, talk to OMB bro
Underfired, overpaid, can't be seen though
Turned my camera off to exfoliate my T-zone
Getting mailed checks as long as I am alive
You work late? I am on my couch at five
Automatic raises, they keep going higher
Trying to get rid of me? You gone need a miner
It's real—and it's fantastic
GS-14 "working" down in Myrtle
Snapping selfies cuz I saw a turtle
The back-to-work requirement is one you can not hurdle
Look at me I'm doing work (J.K. it's the Wordle)
Taxpayer folks work hard with their hands
We take their money cuz apparently, we can
So I can brainstorm million-dollar plans
"Much Ado About Nothing" but everybody's trans
I know they need food here but I think this is better
Building piers in Gaza, think I did it wrong
You sent us Penta-money but baby it's Penta-gone
I'm probably gonna need a hundred million for repairs
The pronouns for whose bombs we bought are they and them and theirs
What what what what what if shrimp could dance?
What what what what well I think it's worth a chance
Let's call it a wrap then, this verse is collapsing
And let's send a check to Wuhan, what's the worst that can happen?
Uh oh…
They not like us, They not like us, They not like us
They not like us, They not like us, They not like us
- Producer: Austin Bragg
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This is fucking ridiculous. Federal government workers are not that much different than workers in the private sector. The only differences are that federal government has more paperwork, things move slower, upper level employees are under paid, and civil servants have better protections, which comes with a responsibility to be non-partisan.
The amount of abuse that federal workers get is disgraceful.
Federal government workers are not that much different than workers in the private sector.
They are incredibly different. If you don't like the job that someone is doing in the private sector, you can take your business elsewhere. If you don't like the job that a bureaucrat is doing, you can't choose to stop paying taxes.
"which comes with a responsibility to be non-partisan."
A looooooot of them missed that part.
Well, no, they just have a more politically correct definition of non-partisan.
Federal government workers produce NOTHING. There are no goods, and the only services are manufactured to keep the next fed employed.
Worthless mother fuckers.
Federal civil servants keep the national parks open, ensure your water and food is safe, keep companies from polluting the air and water, maintain the US military, ensure that drugs are safe and effective, direct funding for research that benefits the public, ensures our banking system runs smoothly, enforces non-discrimination and labor laws, provides valuable data collection and analysis, and many other services.
You want to live in a country without those civil servants? First go read about what the country was like before there were the laws that the civil servants are upholding. The country did not create the civil bureaucracy for shits and giggles, every law was painstakingly drafted and passed because there was a need.
...and they also give social security checks to people who are over 150 years old, "lose" billions of dollars in the Pentagon and answer to no one.
> every law was painstakingly drafted and passed because there was a need.
Yes, a need to get re-elected.
The saddest part is how many people truly believe that this is true.
Oh, bullshit.
* National parks would work even better if they were private entities. All government brings to the table is eminent domain and taxes, both of which are theft.
* London in the mid-1800s, when cholera was first recognized as a bacterial problem and not just smelly air, had multiple private fresh water providers. Government just adds monopoly to the table.
* New York in the 1800s and early 1900s had sniffer squads who tracked down pollution so they could be sued. Then the courts started cracking down at the behest of cronies and the government. Supreme Court of Georgia, Holman v Athens Empire Laundry Co., 1919: "The pollution of the air, so far as reasonably necessary to the enjoyment of life and indispensable to the progress of society, is not actionable"
* The FDA does a lousy job of inspecting and regulating safety of food and drugs. Recent COVID events should be enough, but here's a more laughable description from 2012: https://reason.com/2012/06/30/the-sickening-nature-of-many-food-safety/
* The government has no business stealing my taxes for what its bureaucrats deem research for the public good. Studying Peruvian caterpillars on cocaine is not in my interest. Stealing my money to do so is even worse. If scientists can't convince the public to individually or organizationally donate, then it is not in the public good.
* Look up "inflation 1800-present" and you will find it far more stable before the Fed came into the picture in 1913. All financial panics before the Fed were caused by government malfeasance and meddling. The recessions and depressions since the Fed have been far worse due to all the government malfeasance and meddling. FDIC is poorly defined insurance which would be better and cheaper in private hands.
* Government has no business regulating private affairs, including racism and voluntary labor. If some jackass wants to ban blacks or Mollies from his store, that's his business, and so is the public's resistance. Government's only duty is to a meritocracy in its own affairs, and DEI etc are the opposite of that. If I want to work 80 hours a week without overtime, that is my business, not the government's.
* Data collection means snooping. One would do well to remember the wisdom of the last UK Hong Kong governor, John James Cowperthwaite, who famously refused to even collect the statistics which the social "scientists" wanted to use to tell Hong Kong businesses how to do things "correctly".
Damn straight I want to live in a country without self-styled "servants" who think their job is to tell me how to live, and to be paid by stealing my taxes.
Molly, here's a real clear example of what government brings to the table.
When the government paid to build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, the two railroads built from their ends to join in the middle near in Utah. The railroads famously built parallel tracks past each to milk the feds for more subsidies.
Private companies spending their own money would have done no such thing; they would have coordinated and compromised on a single route and met without wasting all that parallel track.
Let me ask you one question, Molly:
Why do civil servants take that "abuse" rather than go to the private sector, which apparently is much better than what they currently have?
Because they know how important the work is and don't want to see the country go to shit.
Molly, why didn't you respond to my rebuttal just above? Too much reality for you?
In any case, your answer here amounts to "Because we know what's good for everybody else, even when they don't."
Because they know how important the work is
LOL.
Molly's a DMV employee, building permit clerk, or possibly parking enforcement. It strives to be a fed.
It's definitely the HOA secretary who torments the guy with the vintage car or the dad with the play gym in his backyard.
It's important work, ok?!?
Wow, I honestly didn't think you'd go there. Can't tell whether this is just a troll or we have really run into someone who thinks that government employees have transcended humanity and become something better.
My dad worked for the state's DMV. He did your road test/issued you your driver's license. Full on SUPER dem. He talks just like Mollygodiva. He SERVED the community because "the government isn't out for profit" like us evil private sector employees. He also retired at age 50 and hasn't done a damn thing since. Fairly consistent with his working years in fact....
I hate to go here but LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Wow. The self interest of Western people is gob smacking. You are full of shit. I retired from the National Guard as a Weekend Warrior (I have a private sector day job). Half my Guard unit were/are full time. Those full timers left the private sector for a full time government (Guard) job and they don't return to the private sector. There's a reason for that and it ain't altruism.
We keep the forest open! What are you people not understanding. If it weren't for me, how could anyone go into the woods!
Yes, they don't get nearly enough abuse.
" Federal government workers are not that much different than workers in the private sector."
That's bullshit.
If you live in a right to work state, your employer can fire you at will.
Try doing that with a federal worker.
The difference is most of the work federal employees do makes my life worse.
Amazon has a lot of problems - making my life worse is not one of them. And if it did, I could just . . . ignore them.
The problem is that they're not non-partisan.
The problem is that they're not non-partisan.
The problem is that they're not non-partisan.
You can say that again.
You start with they're "not that much different" and then list a litany of significant differences . . .
Pick one.
Missed the biggest difference between federal (and all government) employees and private sector employees.
Private sector employers have an incentive to be efficient with their resources and will fire underperforming employees.
Monopoly is one of the worst aspects of government. Federalism in the US was supposed to prevent most of that, but ha, bureaucrats and politicians saw the way forward, and here we are.
LMAO. You're too funny Molly.
upper level employees are under paid,
LMAO, LMAO, LMAO. 5 of the 10 richest counties in America surround Washington DC. I know who lives there since I grew up in one of them.
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