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Federal worker here (and I guess a ConcernFag, but today only)

I've worked hard as a Federal employee for 30+ years and have pulled many literal miracles out of my ass to help the organization, and I've received outstanding appraisals year after year for it. But you can't eat them, and awards for those in the trenches are shallow.

I've watched as others sucked $ from the government while doing absolutely nothing, and I've had to do their work in addition to mine. The bad don't do shit, and the good do double. I know it's broken, and the ability to fire is a great start. But don't forget there are those of us that are and do good too.

We have been starved over the years just like the military. Our salaries haven't kept up. I'm capped, and with inflation, I make less every year, and now with great economic growth (Thank you POTUS!), that inflation will be even more real in 2019 (which is a good thing).

That last treasonous bastard president said there was no inflation for years and wouldn't give us COLAs, and all the while, we could feel that supposedly non-existent inflation squeezing us when buying groceries, and watching our paychecks cover less and less.

I'm glad to do my part, but freezing our pay hurts the good and the bad, and with the many billions given to the evil every year, this is sending the wrong message to those of us working hard. Like everyone (real) right now we are happy that POTUS is Making America Great Again, and even though my group isn't shutdown, I'd gladly accept being furloughed to build that wall.

But stop hitting our paychecks… We need help just like the military did…

p.s. I'll go back to being a loyal supporter and Qanon researcher now and won't whine again.