*this excludes all the crazy, neurotic paper pushers who only know how to fill out forms in triplicate and say “that’s not my department.”
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
It’s your choice to work there
I heard this from somebody I know regarding my choice to be a public SERVANT. And I thought, but didn’t say, well ain’t that a damn. Well, thank God, some of choose to serve the public. Thank God Teachers choose to get abused by overbearing, dysfunctional, co-dependent parents and educate bratty kids. Thank God there are brave Police Officers who put there lives in dangers to catch the monsters that prowl our streets. Thank God there are Firefighters who courageous enough to run IN burning building to save lives and salvage as much property as possible. Thank God there are Emergency Medical Technicians who save all these old farts and hook them up to oxygen tanks or save young DUI victims. Thank God there are Prosecutors who forgo the trapping of insurance defense and ambulance chasing to make the community safe. Thank God there are people who are willing to sacrifice an inflated salary at an evil, multi-national corporation just waiting on the second they can send every American job to some overseas Third World woman who will work for literally pennies a day. Thank God that some people choose to the jobs that most people won’t do, can’t do, aren’t willing to do, and are incapable of doing. Thank God some people will do jobs that benefit the many and not just the few. Thank God for the Public Servants.*
*this excludes all the crazy, neurotic paper pushers who only know how to fill out forms in triplicate and say “that’s not my department.”
*this excludes all the crazy, neurotic paper pushers who only know how to fill out forms in triplicate and say “that’s not my department.”
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2 comments:
You forgot the most important public servants of all: our military.
Without them this country would not exist today, and the rest of the world would be a much worse place than it already is.
None of the public servants you mentioned would have jobs if it weren't for our military.
As a comment to the comment; It is possible that none of those jobs would exist without the military. By the way, that is not necessarily a bad thing. Members of the armed forces who have fought and died for this country in the hopes of maintaining and adding to this nation's greatness as they percieved it, I can do nothing but respect them. If only for their courage and perseverence in the face of dangers most of us shudder to imagine, I respect them.
But I shudder to think of the perversion of the American Dream so many of them died in the name of. I mean to say, the degredation of members of this society, inhabitants of this country they gave the ultimate sacrifice to defend, is in my opinion, a dishonor to the ideals associated with our United States. The American Dream has been reduced in many ways to just that; A dream. An inattainable goal which, when reflected upon, gives one a feeling of dispair not easily ignored. You can see it every day on dozens of faces, even your own. Every time that you stop to ask yourself "what am I doing?" in regards to your job, your life, etc. You are chasing a dream. Maybe the same dream those women and men were defending. Anyway, Im rambling. Maybe she neglected to mention them because, no matter how necessary and underappreciated a public servant may be, it is still hard to think of a soldier in mixed company. They are in a class all their own.
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