Well, for starters I'd never take a federal government job. But the fact is you're asking the wrong question. The correct question is, do two wrongs make a right? If not then the wrong of the government taking money from one person to "create" a job for another cannot be corrected by allowing the problem to propagate.

Having said all of that, if you're working for the government and the best job you can get afterward is flipping burgers at McDonald's then perhaps you were an overpaid leech with no skills to begin with.

FYI - this is why people with doctorates in English still work at Starbuck's.

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