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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“I am proud of what I accomplished”
Oh...let me guess....a nice juicy pension at my expense?
The Knights tried to recruit me 30 years ago. Seems being Protestant is a non-starter.
Not “pimping” at all.
And 650K in a 401(K) isn’t actually all that much, especially in a high-cost city like Washington.
“Who are we?” “We’re the ones still in our homes, still owning boats and big pickup trucks.”
“We’re the ones whose health insurance is better than your dreams. We’re the ones who write the regulations to shut your business down or deny your crops water.” “We’re your neighbors when it suits us, shut up and pay your taxes.” “Shut up and pay your taxes.”
A reminder to all of you proud public servants. Most of the jobs you do can be performed in the private sector. In the free market private sector, where there is competition, consumers can choose services from competitive businesses resulting in lower costs. Taxpayers are not forced to pay for services they don’t want. There is no more vital a product than food and the transportation services that make it available in the free market. This is all done in the private sector. There are few public servant jobs, “vital” or not, that cannot be performed in the private sector. In short you are in the public sector because of a socialist political agenda. You are being used to undermine the intention of our framers who gave us a country which had small government with limited powers. Nearly all government public service jobs belong in the private sector.
Sorry to burst your all-encompassing generalization there, but I am a Government employee.
I work EVERY day to see that results of my work protect this nation and her soldiers in the field. What I do also protects YOU. It also provides YOU with the security to broad-brush those of us who work for our nation.
All without a union, or any respect.
We don't do this job for money or notoriety, we do it because it's important.
It's important enough to know that some grunt out there may have to depend on his life on the work that I do. Important enough for me to know that EVERY soldier out there might depend on me doing my job RIGHT to keep them safe so they can come home.
We are the gift that keeps on giving, complements of your congressman and senators. Thank them for me next election day.
Pimping now?
When my husband died, the one thing that sticks out in my mind about everyone that dealt with me was the Office of Personnel Mgmt on the base near me. Staffed by 3 lazy women, they eventually got their job done concerning me, but it certainly wasn’t willingly or kindly or pleasantly. Everyone else everywhere else was helpful and concerned for the kids and me.
I don’t blame OPM, but government service and those 3 lazy women in particular.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM! I WANT THEM OUT OF MY LIFE. (sorry for shouting)
I can't turn on a light bulb or flush a toilet without being reminded that I have known them all of my life.
650K in a 401(K) isn’t actually all that much, especially in a high-cost city like Washington.
Agreed Mouton.
It’s like it is here in the UK. About half the people who work for the Government are useful and hardworking. The other half are unbelievable parasites. We must separate the wheat from the chaff.
What we need is honest scrutiny of public workers and a level playing field between Private and Public sector workers, with the extra rule that Public Sector workers may not form unions.
I sincerely thank the poster for his time: but I could do with less of these self-aggrandizing articles about how friendly and nice Public sector workers are.
Dang, I’d be friendly too if I had the pay and perks of some of the *total losers* I’ve met working in public service here in the UK. It must be the same over there.
Federal government excluding the military should be 5% of it’s current size.
We are the ones who got a job in the parks department because our uncle is the county executive, then moved up to a computer programming position because we passed the 30 year old civil service test by memorizing the answers in a book we bought at Borders. Never mind that we don't know how to turn on a computer.
We are the ones who have a full time database administrator who does not know how to turn on the database.
We are the ones who spend $50,000 on a 50 gigabyte hard drive. But by the time we figure out how to use it, you can buy a Terabyte for about $200 bucks
We are the one who spend a quarter million dollars on a computer software interface, that took our own (contractor) programmer 15 minutes to manually.
We are the ones who spend $15,000 on useless software that does not work, but there is no process to return it TO ACCEPT MONEY for a refund.
We are the ones who have a full time ‘accounts receivable’ accountant on staff with a paid government car and parking space in front of the building. Even though we have no accounts receivable. (SEE ABOVE)
We are the ones who hire a company to contract for software over and over even though the last stuff they made is good for crap (and the current manager started the business with them)
We are the ones who have a full time employee that prints this months reports, then boxes and shreds and burns last months reports. Even though no one ever reads these reports. Every month.
We are the ones who have a senior paid programmer who works 6 months on a 4 hour job. Then when our expensive paid contractor does it in 4 hours we still let him work on it for another 3 months.
[THESE ARE ACTUAL EXAMPLES I HAVE PERSONALLY WITNESSED]
Maybe this article needed a barf alert?
What does the union do that is not, under the Constitution, the responsibility of the people I can elect or vote against according to my estimate of their value to the Republic?
Why do you pay dues to the union, and what does the union do with that money, other than pressure the government to pay you more than you could get in another job? The union makes you the high bidder - someone who was not in the union would do the job just as well for less. What, exactly, is preventing that from happening?
Agreed. At least a dry heave warning.
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