Posted on 09/07/2017 6:21:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Good news.
How much will we still be paying them every year in pension funds?
Yep.
There are pockets of the swamp being drained.
Nearly 400 workers have left the Environmental Protection Agency in recent days
Yaaay!
They say that like it’s a bad thing....
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Depending on the number of retirees we’re paying not to work, may not be much of a cost savings.
The 2/3 that didn’t take the deal are still employed?
It’s a good start.
“...employees to almost 14,400 workers,”
WTF? Seriously needs to be 1,400 and then 140 in four years.
This is the best news in decades!....................
I’m not familiar with the details of the EPA buyout program but typically, eligible employees are offered $25,000 to leave. After taxes, that amount usually does not inspire many to take the offer. But for those with a lot of service time and who are already past the minimal retirement age, its an added incentive.
If the job is completely eliminating than it might be a savings in the long wrong.
plus, if this reduces EPA’s regulatory strangle hold.
It would be a good thing,too.
How much will we still be paying them every year in pension funds?
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Good question but I’d guess it is less than if they were still on full employment.
Depending upon the buy out package it could be zero.
The problem with creating agencies designed to regulate a perceived problem is, what happens to the agency’s employees when the problem has been resolved? It’s like the Japanese saying, “to a hammer the world is a nail.” People who write regulations to stay employed will continue to write regulations. Regulations cost end users money. Ordinary house paint has gone from 4-8 dollars per gallon in the early seventies to 18-45 dollars per gallon today, thanks to regulations. Now realize the cost impact of every regulated product to the consumer and you see a major inflation driver. No cost benefit analysis has been performed because the people mandating the cost aren’t paying the cost...we are. These EPA employees who are making our world more expensive and less accessible will retire with wonderful pensions and benefits denied most of the little people who pay the freight.
Not to worry. There is no constitutional justification for those responsibilities anyway.
With steep agency funding cuts, and being asked to do more to compensate for the departure of their colleagues, the attrition will continue. You are exactly right about that.
The problem for many of the bureaucrats is that they don’t have skills and the personal drive that are necessary to survive in the private sector. They loathe the thought of leaving their comfy “safe place”.
Hahaha. Most of these retiring bums haven’t worked an honest day in their lives. These whining losers should be shunned by society. Winning!
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