Posted on 03/02/2011 6:09:10 AM PST by Poundstone
I am proud to be a federal employee. Let me repeat, proud to be one of millions across the nation who work as a public servant and who believes that public employees choose careers so they can be a vital part of the glue that holds this nation together.
Who are we? We are your neighbors, we are your friends, we are your fellow parishioners, and the people who sit with you watching the children and grandchildren at the ballpark or the basketball court.
We are not faceless and anonymous "others." We are people you have known all your lives.
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A few years ago a gang of three multi-cultural (one old white handicapped rental property manager, one unemployed white punk meth-head, one black crack and heroin addict ex-con) robbers robbed my home as my daughter was out for a 40 minute walk. They took about $15K in gold jewelry, coins. Unfortunately for me it was uninsured. Fortunately they ran out the one door as she walked in the other.
And yet, that $15k is like nothing in comparison to what “my neighbors” according to this article have taken from me and mine some by taxation, and more by regulation and by writing law and policy that have hobbled or killed the kinds of business I spent the early part of my career becoming expert in.
Would any Freeper or free man and woman become upset at me for cursing those robbers (one turned out to be murderer as well) most vehemently when they remain uncaught and unrebuked?
Why then get upset at you in your vehemence over a mega-crime in progress where the preps boldly brag of their swag?
Or perhaps they think the Federal Government workers are virtuous beyond normal and the usual slackers of life. You know that like the gang of robbers who robbed my house, the Federal Kleptocracy puts a huge amount of emphasis on the modern virtue of multiculturalism. Maybe that’s what upset them?
You should explain to them that you are very multi-cultural too.
A close friend of my son’s, a soldier, was killed the month before Rummy resigned. I was mortified, wholly saddened when I heard of his death. That sadness lasted a long time. I marked a black square on my calendar at work.
The next month when I heard that Rummy had resigned I was shaken as well. Still not anywhere near as much. Yet on that day I marked a double black square on my calendar.
Rummy’s resignation meant that many more would die, for politically correctness and general political mushiness.
People have been using the old saying, “our Founders would be rolling over in their graves” for as long as I can remember. At this point with all of the proverbial “rolling” they have been doing I suspect that they would have worn their way all of the through the center of the Earth and out the other side. Seriously, if any of them saw what we now have as government, culture, and society in 2011, they would not even recognize it as the United States of America that they established.
And your reaction has sadly been proven correct far too many times, over and over, at this point (and, unfortunately, with no prospects for it to end anytime soon).
Just like they are exempt from any benefit or praise the liberals want to give to ‘governemnt workers’
I am a civil service employee [blue collar] for the military, and I don't like some of the government workers either. I see the slugs every day, and many should be fired. I also see some things here that people don't understand.
There are far too many references to "20 years and their pension plans" that are far off base. I've been here for almost 38 years, and will not have anything near the pay I get now. I'll be lucky to get 50% of my base pay for the high three, and have been paying into my own retirement account.
It’s alive for anyone hired before 1987 (you’re off a couple of years). There’s nothing we can do about the oldtimers, but to constantly complain about a system that no longer exists, and applies to less than 20% of the current federal workforce. To say that it still applies is completely wrong, especially since 80% are under the new benefit structure. Unfortunately we’re still on the hook for the current retirees and that remaining 20%. (Oh and the post office and the Congresscritters themselves who for some reason escaped FERS and still get pensions)
I will say that the only problems we’ve had with GS 12-15s are either those who are politically appointed (both parties love to reward the children of big donors with hefty paychecks. However, they usually leave in a couple of years) or those coming from other agencies. We tend to hire from the private sector because those feds from other agencies can’t handle the workload and expectations in our agency. We’re small and don’t have a lot of the issues with dead weight as some of the bigger agencies (and we’ve actually terminated people! Imagine that!)
The only employees that get 80% of their pay are those who work 41 years, and have no survivor benefits provided for a spouse and have no one with an insurable interest in them.
80% is the absolute maximum and not common. And quickly dying out. Literally.
Post Office falls under FERS. They do pay less for health coverage, though.
Thank you for the honest answers. Are your health insurance premiums pre-tax? Do you also have a medical savings account option for unreimbursed medical expenses?
Do you always walk away from someone still yelling when you’ve been embarrassed?
Apology accepted.
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