Judge: Feds can withhold worker records

Centre Daily Times (CentreDaily.com) ^ | October 16, 2007 | WILLIAM KATES- Associated Press Writer

[CHEE]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A judge says the federal government can legally withhold the names, salaries and positions of more than 900,000 federal employees from a university agency that for years has made the information public.

[CHEE]

Do not think it's any of your business simply because you pay the bill. Times, they are achanging.

[Ben Bolt]

It is a natural fit actually . Considering the men in black are untouchable , why not extend the same courtesy to the kissing cousins ?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Maybe we need to expand the withholding of employees to the Federal, State, and local governments. We have a small program of about 5 to 10 percent in the shadow economy, mostly illegals. Let’s increase it fully in the private sector. It’s how the Russians brought down the Soviet Union. Remember all those stories of Russians buying American jeans on the black market for a months’s official wages. Wonder where they got the money. Hmmm.

[386wt]

Salaries including benefits of Kalifornia civil service workers have been a state secret for years. We all know why.

[CHEE]

The high end bonuses passed out in D.C. curdle my bowls. 10K here, 20K there, here a K, there a K, everywhere a K K.