Regarding the Jan. 27 letter, “Health-care law: It does not call for more IRS agents”:
It was seemingly in regard to the new health care bill and the hiring of new IRS agents. Almost immediately the writer ventured off into another issue when he stated:
“Comparing military pay to civil service wages is a pretty lopsided argument.” He goes on to say: “One is for entry level teens, with free room and board, and college. The other is for career professionals.”
I would like to know if the “entry level” positions for “teens” refers to the men and women of this country who, for the past 230-plus years, have put their lives on the line to defend out freedom and national security. Are the “career professionals” he refers to those bureaucrats who have there noses firmly entrenched in the public trough?
As to the “career profession” of civil service, if they don’t like the piece of cake they’ve chosen, let them go out into the private sector and compete for jobs with the 16 percent of Americans who are unemployed, many of whom have honorably and respectfully held that “entry level” position wearing the military uniform of our country.
Mike Galbraith
Arlington
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