"Be kind to cvil Servant Month"

Well, we’ve survived another local election. I take my hat off to all the candidates, winners and losers. It takes a lot of guts to put yourself on the line and have your neighbors approve of you.

To celebrate the end of a another political season, I want to propose that the rest of this month be declared as: “Be kind to a civil servant month !” Everyone else has their month, and as far as know civil servants have been left out, so why not.

I also propose that we include paid government staffs in this proclamation. Be they city, county, state or federal. This later group has taken a lot of shots lately, they have been accused of everything from not teaching Johnny to read, to cheating on their golf scores.

To be fair and honest, improprieties by public servants do surface from time to time. However, a large part usually can be laid on understaffing or untrained personnel or uninformed elected officials. But, on the balance, these civil servants are guilty of far less infractions that their fellow citizens in the private sector.

One example of some of the good they do for society is while on the public payroll, they have made some important technological breakthrough. Just a few of those inventions or systems are:

• The CATscam. which enables doctors to diagnose cancer, brain disorders, and other diseases;
• Plastic wrap, used in covering food at stores and a home;

• Teflon, the non-stick coating found on many home cooking utensils;

• Plastic corneas, which have given eyesight back to thousands of people suffering from disease affecting their eyes;

• Solid state technology, which has brought us transistor radios and miniature TVs;

• Titanim, and other new, stronger, light metals;

• Advanced fishing nets, which allow fishermen to increase their catches by 30 percent;

• Lasers, which are being used for many varied things in medical science and etc.;
• The first computer;

• Power from nuclear fission’s;

• Many designs of commercial and military aircraft;Instrument landing systems used by airports all over the world.

Inventiveness by American’s public servants has helped to make our nation a world leader in industry, the military and agriculture.

So remember, the next time you criticize a DMV clerk or a receptionist at city hall, hold your tongue. He or she might be working on a cure for the common cold.

Therefore, by the power invested in me (by being a member of the fourth estate). I hereby proclaim the rest of this month as: “BE KIND TO A CIVIL SERVANT MONTH!”