My government job taught me amazing lessons. I wish Kamala Harris had learned them at McDonald’s

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Vice President Kamala Harris claims she worked at McDonald’s as a teenager, but that job is missing from her early resumes and memoir. I sympathize with her since I also omitted from resumes my teenage summer job sloughing on the payroll of the Virginia Highway Department. But that job taught me more about the nature of government than any high school or college class I ever took. 

As a 16-year-old flag man, I held up traffic while highway employees idled away the hours. I did “roadkill ridealongs” with Bud, an amiable, beefy truck driver who was always chewing the cheapest, nastiest “ceegar” ever made — Swisher Sweets. The cigars I smoked cost a nickel more than Bud’s, but I tried not to put on airs around him. 

We were supposed

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