A friend:

If you want to see the future of your venerated civil service job, look to Greece.
They are about to go off the cliff financially, and their largest civil service union has just called for a massive strike to protest any further cuts. Socialism really is like a financial perpetual motion machine — it looks great in theory, but in practice it can only function with outside support.

I appreciate the advice, buddy, but I guess I don’t really need to look to Greece. I live in New York State, you know.