22 years I have worked as a federal wildland firefighter.
I have literally bled in service to this nation, it's people and to preserve its natural resources.
I have had guns pulled on me by white supremacist and pissed off private citizens. I spend months at a time away from my family, friends and have missed many once in a lifetime social events.
I make less than a McDonalds store manager, yet I am responsible for the emergency implementation of 2 and 3/4 of a billion dollars worth of energy reserves, homes of about 35k people, farms, businesses, recreational values and irreplaceable natural resources. The 75k annual salary I get paid, has saved this nation tens of millions of dollars in potential losses and incalculable value of lives, resources, and infrastructure.
I have pulled dead children from car wrecks, decomposed meth addicts from trailer homes, homeless men from dumpsters, and buried dozens of pets, before their owners could see their charred remains. I have delivered two babies, saved a bus full of tourists from freezing to death in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and changed the flat tires of many stranded motorists. There is probably 40+ people that are alive and contributing to society today, because of the actions of my coworkers and I.
America elected Trump after he said federal workers are a threat to their financial freedoms. Now he demands that I have to achieve a higher level of performance to keep this job. I will also have to prove that I will be more loyal to him over the US Constitution.
So, I'm going to drive a garbage truck, make 6 figures, listen to my backlog of audiobooks, and be home every night with my family. Someone else can take over all that shit mentioned above.
Fuck Trump and fuck you if you voted for him. If I'm going to be labled an enemy to America? I might as well own it.
(That's how I feel.)
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