(I like that one also!!)
Posted on 01/09/2017 8:19:46 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Move some of the Land Management folks out to Wyoming or eastern Oregon and let them be neighbors of those who complain about confiscatory practices by BLM.
Yes, move as many Departments out of DC as possible.
Oh, and also encourage attrition, but remember you want to keep the productive employees and let the political ones go.
Considered it stolen, er borrowed for what will be happening soon in the federal playland.
SIEU will be working overtime now that Trump is about to drain the swamp. To quell the storm, he needs to start with those who are the loudest mouths, dump them first and the rest of the sheeple will fall in line as they clean out their desks and head for all those phony jobs odumbo has been telling us that (don’t) exist.
As coal mining is for West Virginia and Kentucky, etc. Perhaps he could take a road trip to the EPA, then to the White House, and then to HRC's Manhattan digs to get copies of the scripts to read to all the soon-to-be-unemployed that nobody is guaranteed a job in this competitive global world, that their old "industry" isn't suitable for the new economy, that it's a simple matter of "retraining", and that they can't pine away for an America that never really was.
“It’s going to happen, DoD is ramping up a buyout program to reduce civilian staff by 20%.”
Where did you hear that? Can you share a source?
Eleven more days until President JDAM lands in DC.
http://www.fedsmith.com/2016/12/27/new-buyout-max-at-dod-will-other-agencies-follow/
We'll probably hear more after 1/20, but my HR department hasn't heard anything yet. We're part of DoD, but a separate agency, so we may not be involved in it.
Very unlikely I'd do it, first thing is to get wife retired. She won't do it if I take the buyout, and I don't need the aggravation...lol.
With what I want to do when I "retire", I can do most of that now using holidays and vacation time. There's over 350 wineries in Texas, and other potential trips include Grand Junction CO, Nampa ID, Medford-Roseburg-Willamette Valley OR, to name a few. Not ruling out California, of course.
Glad you posted this. I used the Hunger Games as a teaching moment for my daughter. I compared the Capitol City to D.C.
President Trump needs to deliver those cuts.
1. Build the wall.
2. Deport illegals. Imprison those who return, and make the sentence long enough to discourage them, then deport them again once they have served a few years behind bars.
3. Repeal Obamacare, preferably without an immediate replacement, so we can negotiation without giving liberals any leverage.
4. If politically feasible, fire hundreds of thousands of federal workers. If that won’t fly, eliminate excess positions through attrition. Oversized departments can hired one new employee for every three who leave FedGov, or one new worker for every two who go elsewhere in FedGov.
5. Eliminate BATFE, with its very few positive functions going to FBI.
6. Eliminate the Department of Education, with the states assuming responsibility for collecting and sharing information that they wish to collect ans share.
Good...many Fed “workers” do absolutely nothing and/or nothing productive. I hope they are quaking in their boots. I hope many are riffed/fired/let go.
The government employee unions were created by executive order. They can be eliminated by executive order. DO IT!
Interesting, the book, “Hunger Games” came out in 2008 or 2009 and my college-aged daughter got me hooked on the series and noted the similarities of DC to Capitol City...I guess we all had a teaching moment!
I think the draining has begun because I heard there is a lot of whining about Obama appointees having to look for (real) work. :)
“What kind of an American given name is Witold??? The problem is we have imported flies to the DC manure pile since someone determined we didn’t have enough here.”
You’ve noticed it too! Whenever there’s some gov’t worthless turd upset about this or that, you can usually bet on it being someone with a name you can’t pronounce. We have really screwed the pooch with our immigration “policies.” We’e let in a bunch of crap from around the world, let it get an edumacation, and after that, allowed it to infiltrate our government at all levels. Lately, the one’s who’ve really pissed me off are the Indians (the Elephant-riding kind, not the wooo-wooo, kind).
It’s going to take a lot of staff reductions in fedgov to get rid of the leftist interlopers in northern Virginia to get that state back.
Many government jobs are a way to give a middle class lifestyle to otherwise unemployable adults.
Most GS-14s probably only have a high school education.
“IOW, a $150,000 contractor costs less than a $70,000 government employee.”
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In the Washington DC area that average salary would be closer to $85K. This is due to the locality pay adjustment. But legions of feds make a lot more than that. A GS-13 in the DC metro area starts at $92K for example.
That is just the employee’s salary. The usual overhead and benefit costs are added to that, just like a company does with its labor rates. So, a $70K fed is actually costing the government at least $100K a year.
In the short run, contractors probably cost more than federal employees. The government is willing to pay for expertise and skills it doesn’t have, and for special projects that are short term and involve development of pilot systems, R&D, or other unique one off tasks. But to allow contractors to remain long term is definitely more costly because things like fess (profit) and G&A are also factored into their labor rates.
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