If you were looking for a line item example of wasted taxpayer dollars, we’ve got a winner. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, part of the US Department of the Interior, offers employees paid time off for counseling to address the climate cult equivalent of PTSD.
US Fish and Wildlife Service employees are struggling to cope with feelings of trauma and loss over the world’s changing climates and imperiled environments. Their work repeatedly confronts them with ecological changes, but even a sense of “anticipated loss” perhaps decades from now requires compassionate help. Or so the FWS and American Psychological Association tell us.
The FWS is thus offering paid leave to employees who attend “eco-anxiety” and “climate grief” training. When the House Natural Resources Committee called the sessions a colossal waste of money, the agency downplayed their cost and scope. But naturally the “woke” programs don’t end there.
FWS Director Martha Williams is also pushing diversity-equity-inclusion-LBGTQ programs as the agency’s “number one priority” (or perhaps number two, after climate change). Employees can take as much paid time off as needed for DEI and “gay pride” programs and eco-anguish counseling.
Let’s break this down in real terms. The government created a fake problem that costs taxpayers hundreds of billions before the shadow taxes and other economic damage it perpetuates. They sold government workers on the legitimacy of their fake crisis. And they are now spending more money on them to address the trauma their fearmongering created.
It all sounds so familiar.
The war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on poverty, the war on healthcare. The border situation. The opioid epidemic. What Eversource did to NH’s electricity rates.
At the end of the day, everyone else in this pitiful chain of events – pick one, they are all the same – gets paid, and we get screwed.
It sure would be nice if there were a way to fix it without having to *shoot up the place. Wait, there was, but they did the same thing to elections.
*And no, I am not saying it is time for a shooting war. It’s turn of phrase. The second amendment is for defense, not attack.
