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Uncle Sam to Little Folk: "Get Lost"

Listening to Judy Gross, the wife of an internationally imprisoned government contractor (Alan Gross), on MSNBC, speak about a government department or agency ignoring her communication is par for the course for sleazy bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., regional federal offices, and American embassies around the world sitting at their desks, swollen with opulence, drinking coffee and lolling away time on nice salaries at least a third or more bigger than those of average Americans.  I also had this experience, writing to our embassy in Ukraine a few years ago (through both their Kiev and Washington, D.C. addresses) and getting absolutely no response whatsoever.  Same thing with the office of the U.S. Attorney of Western Washington (Jenny Durkan) -- absolutely no consideration for the concerns that I expressed to them in 2010, nor any reply.  Regarding the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, I should have complained to their bosses at the State Department, but I had a lot going on at th