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WHO DO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WORK FOR?

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Contributed by: Len Newcomb on 2/28/2007

I feel I'm more than qualified to gripe about government employees. Up to eleven years ago I was a government employee all my life. After doing my time in the military I joined the Oxnard Police Department where I worked for twenty-three years. I retired in 1995 as a senior investigator. Since 1995 I have been a businessman in the city of Ventura as the owner of Len Newcomb Investigative Services. Going into business requires all the licenses, permits, advertising costs, rent, equipment, utilities and all the other anscillary costs. I even have to pay the government a tax on all the equipment I own every year, even after sales tax and paying tax on the same equipment every year.

What gripes the stuffings out of me is the arrogance of government employees. Not only do government employees get their own parking spaces at the Government Center but they get a special door to enter the building excusing them from waiting in line like their "clients." That's right, WE are their clients. In private business we make our employees park in the rear of the lot allowing customers to have less of a walk. Our government employees forget WHO their customers are.

Just today I encountered a police officer driving an unmarked police car. I noticed that the windows on his "unmarked car" were tinted, a violation of the law. Incidentally, I received a citation for the same thing. I told the officer, "Those windows are illegal." He replied to me, "This car is used for other things." I told him that police cars are not exempt. His reply to me was, "So report me." The arrogance. Now I know if I reported him I would get the same bureaucratic quagmire that is normally given out so why bother.

I think it's high time that government employees remember who their customers are and eighty-six the arrogance.

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