{"id":25961,"date":"2016-09-05T04:54:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T11:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=25961"},"modified":"2022-09-04T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T01:24:08","slug":"working-for-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/working-for-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Working For Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2016\/09\/working-for-government.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/SomaComa.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\">KentForLiberty.com<\/a> | It isn&#8217;t right to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theanarchistalternative.info\/QuitGov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">work for government<\/a>. Not at any level.<\/p>\n<p>You probably don&#8217;t want to admit that if you work for government and like your paycheck, but it doesn&#8217;t change reality.<\/p>\n<p>A job that comes with a government paycheck- financed with money stolen from others (or counterfeited by the Federal Reserve, as the case may be)- is <i>NOT<\/i> an honest job. No matter how good it makes you feel. No matter if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theanarchistalternative.info\/QuitGov\/jobs\/teach.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believe you are doing a good thing<\/a>. You aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>A government paycheck is welfare, but of a type that is much more harmful than simply getting money for nothing- a government paycheck is welfare given as a reward for harming people. It doesn&#8217;t matter that the recipient claims they &#8220;worked for it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I feel sorry for those who go into denial over this and try to make excuses or point fingers elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Why would I say that it isn&#8217;t right to have a government job, knowing it will hurt feelings of people I know personally and care about? Because I <i>do<\/i> care about them and don&#8217;t want to see them compromising themselves. I don&#8217;t really care if strangers I don&#8217;t like choose <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2016\/08\/archate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archation<\/a> over cooperation. People I don&#8217;t like probably suck anyway, so what else would I expect from them? But people I care about? I don&#8217;t want them lowering themselves to that level. As tempting as it may be, and as rewarding as the paycheck is, it isn&#8217;t right and they need to know.<\/p>\n<p>By Kent McManigal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KentForLiberty.com | It isn&#8217;t right to work for government. Not at any level. You probably don&#8217;t want to admit that if you work for government and like your paycheck, but it doesn&#8217;t change reality. A job that comes with a government paycheck- financed with money stolen from others (or counterfeited by the Federal Reserve, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[758,720],"class_list":["post-25961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-government","tag-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26976,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25961\/revisions\/26976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}