“And I agree about making not just teachers but every profession into heroes.”

Glory, Glory, Aallelujah and AAAAAAAMen!  Preach on sister!

As to the social worker, I know many people like that, every meme about something applies to them and they want you to know it.

I think teachers may be one of the sore spots for me because it is so effing over the top all the time and so many people believe it.

Same thing with cops, “every day they risk their lives”.  Fuck no they don’t!  95% of cops will never even draw their weapon in their careers.

Here are some facts, garbage and recycling collectors experienced about 34 deaths per 100,000 in 2016 where as LEOs experienced about 14 per 100,000.  Telecom installers (my old profession that got me into tech) are only slightly less likely to die than cops at about 12 per 100,000, did that mean when I ran about 500 miles of cable in one year in Fort Worth, I was a “hero that didn’t wear a cape”.

Seriously.  Law enforcement is not even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs and a garbage man is about 2.2 times more likely to die at work than a cop.  Seen any heroic garbage man memes lately?

The two most dangerous jobs in America?  Fishing and logging, fishermen die at about 86 per 100,000 a year, or about 6 times the rate of LEOs, and logging, well man, how about 135 per 100,000 workers.  Or about 9.6 times more often than LEOs.  And you know there was that one summer that I worked Topping Trees for Asplunda, may be I should cling to that as my Glory Days, where I did the most dangerous job in America as a teen ager so that your lights, TV and phones would stay on?  Hell I have held two jobs on the top 25 most dangerous jobs.  Where the fuck is my cape and my meme?

This is pure PR style marketing.  And you will notice if focuses always on people who are paid with TAX PAYER MONEY.  If you look at the list of 25 here, http://time.com/5074471/most-dangerous-jobs/ you will find that all but cops and garbage men are workers paid with private money.   Also a lot of those garbage guys are privately employed and frankly garbage service is one service most people don’t gripe about paying for.  Generally you pay a fee even if to the .gov as a line item for this service.

Cops and teachers and social workers though, that comes from the general theft funds doesn’t it?  So the move is obvious, make them into heroes, make it so that anyone that even infers that they don’t deserve more is a Hitler sympathizer and holocaust denier.

Oh and how do most cops that die, that do so in the line of duty, some version or other of an auto accident, which is why Taxi drivers are quite close in numbers as well. Guess that means we need some hero Uber Driver memes right?