Daily Dose: Get Off a Govie’s Back Already!

Earlier this year, GovLoop’er Sandy Ressler posted one of our most popular posts of the year, entitled “I Am a Government Employee and I Am NOT the Enemy.” Well, it turns out that public sentiment hasn’t budged an inch, according to this story from The Washington Post:

Public servants feel sting of budget rancor

Here are a couple excerpts:

More and more, when politicians talk about government employees – whether they are federal, state or local – it is with the kind of umbrage ordinarily aimed at Wall Street financiers and convenience store bandits.

Officials of public employee unions say they have felt political wrath before, but that this time, it feels different.

“The extent and the depth of it is new. This is a concerted, deep attack on public employees and public workers,” said Gerald W. McEntee, president of the 1.6-million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Back in March, most of the respondents to Sandy’s post said that they were still proud to be a public servant…and that the real problem is media coverage on one hand and bad marketing by government on the other. So let’s take a temperature here:

Do you think public perception about government employees will ever change?

Or will this public sector blame game continue indefinitely?

Eager to get your thoughts…

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