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I know that you started this thread kind of in jest, but I just wanted to express the following:

Since I'm self employed and work from home, I can carry my pistol on the job. My employee manual permits me to carry my firearm anywhere it is legal to do so. If I went to work for an Obama administration, I could no longer carry at work. In fact, it is highly likely, given Obama's stated intention to enact a national no-carry law, that the fact that I have a Texas CHL appearing on my FBI background check would render me ineligible for employment by a democrat dominated federal government. Lastly, as an employee, I would feel compelled by my personal code of ethics to do the best job I could do. That means that I would, however unintentionally, be advancing the success of an Obama presidency - and that would counteract my personal goal of fighting him tooth and nail every single step of the way until he is driven from office in disgrace.

Also consider this: Once a federal job has been created, it almost never goes away. If you don't fill it, someone else will. And it will continue that way so long as there is a federal government because it enlarges some minor bureaucrat's rice bowl. Do you really want to contribute to that?

Now, as a struggling new business (started on May 1st of this year), I am broke. REALLY broke. I never know where or when my next project is going to come from, and I am barely squeaking by. In fact, this is only possible because I am married to a good woman who has gone back to work as a dental assistant, a mother-in-law who lives with us and contributes some of her retirement income to the family budget, and a son who is working and contributing to the family's needs by becoming more and more self-sufficient. But I am, by golly, free. Having a regular job would make my life easier and less worrysome, but it would be far more restrictive. I prefer the temporary hard times that I have to slog through until my business is built to the point that I have some measure of security from it instead of the mind-numbing ease of serving time in a government job; if that means that I don't have to submit my personal ambitions to a hide-bound bureaucracy. Call it dumb pride or not, but at 56 years old, I just can't bring myself to submit to someone else's workplace authority anymore - particularly when I see them being inefficient and morally compromised. So I lean on God's grace, and He continues to provide for me and my family, and I firmly believe that He will honor my efforts, in His timing, and my business will survive and bless my family and me.

I'm not having any government job. I want to be part of what drives the economy, not part of what hampers it.