i can send this joke out because i am a government employee.




 I guess this is the "typical" attitude that people perceive of
government workers...

A guy stopped at a local gas station and, after filling his tank,  he
paid
>the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola
and
>watched a couple of men working along the roadside.
>
>One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on.   The
other
>man came along behind him and filled in the hole. While one was digging
a new
>hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole.
>
>The men worked right past the guy with the soft drink and went on down
the
>road. "I can't stand this," said the man tossing the can into a trash
>container and heading down the road toward the men.
>
>"Hold it, hold it," he said to the men. "Can you tell me what's going
on here
>wi! th all this digging and refilling?" "Well, we work for the
government and
>we're just doing our job," one of the men
>said. "But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up.
You're not
>accomplishing anything. Aren't you wasting the taxpayers' money?"
>
>"You don't understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his
shovel
>and wiping his brow. "Normally there's three of us: me, Elmer and
Leroy. I
>dig the hole, Elmer sticks in the tree and
>Leroy, here, puts the dirt back. Elmer's job's been cut... so now it's
just
>me an' Leroy"
>





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