"...I know you are or were a government employee so this may explain your support of big government as you have been sucking off the hard work of your fellow countrymen via tax revenues for some time."
If you are talking about srandal saying this, I think he himself stated he was an engineer working on jet engines for, ahem, government fighter planes.
Sucking off the government teat indeed, paid for by taxpayer's hard-earned money. It's also called the military-industrial complex, something Dwight Eisenhower warned us about a long, long time ago.
... not that there's anything wrong with that .... just sayin' ... as they say ... and you know who they are ...