Miss Cleo says you will have an unhappy reaction to something you say today.
Hey federal employees, stop doing things that make you so easy to ‘bash’ and/or stand up to your fellow federal employees that do!
There are just too damn many of them.
No offense meant, but there are too damn many sucking at the public teat. Government spending is dragging down the productive class. Why is it off base to comment on this? And how exactly will government waste and spending be cut without reducing government employee salaries and benefits, or eliminating them from the payroll entirely?
In the process of defending public employees the author makes a pretty good case for not being one.
Yeah, and while you're at it, quit bash those in public housing like Obama, poor guy.
Nothing wrong with federal employees ... just the “public-sector” unions. I want to abolish them.
Private sector employees have a right to dislike and disrespect public sector employees. We actually accomplish something while they collect pay checks and accomplish nothing of substance.
I live in VA, the federal worker capital of the world and I can tell you that 75% of federal workers wouldn’t last 10 minutes in the real world. They are worse than useless, they are users and takers who contribute nothing. State workewrs are just as bad. I think that about 25% seek federal jobs because they’re motivated to serve their country in some capacity but the vast majority are looking for an easy way out and unwarranted job security.
Where are the direct quotes of Rush or Hannity bashing federal employees?
interesting to note how many of this type of article start out with “...i’m offended...”.
isn’t that really saying, “...what’s most important here is ME!”
I understand both sides of this argument. I do think the number of employees and the benefits should be reduced to match the private sector, but not in one fell swoop.
I’ll also say that it is MUCH harder to get into the government than people think. I’ve admittedly applied for several Federal jobs, and the requirements are ridiculous to where anyone who has worked in the private sector their entire life doesn’t generally have the regulatory type experience the gov’t needs.
Get your egos out of the way and stop trying to defend the indefensible.
It is completely disingenuous and dishonest to try and measure pay without adding in the benefits. Fed Workers are some of the worlds best cared for employees.
Sorry a lie by omission is still a lie.
I was a federal employee for six years in the USAF and I’m not at all offended by what they say. But then I only made $238.00 every two weeks.
My own experience as a government contractor for 14 years, permitting me to see what was happening up-close and personal, while still looking from the outside in is:
- Some federal employees are good and competent, even conscientious.
- Many federal employees aren’t good or competent, and many are little more than thieves.
- Even many of the good, competent and conscientious workers are put to work doing things which either add no value to our society as a whole, or actually detract therefrom.
- The basic problem isn’t so much the workers as it is the illegitimate scope of the federal government.
- If you knew who to axe, you could eliminate 50% of federal workers and probably see a rise in overall productivity of the government as a whole.
- If you eliminated the bad, incompetent and morally-corrupt AND eliminated even only the most egregiously destructive parts of the federal government, you could reduce the head count by 70% or more.
- It really wouldn’t matter that much, as even if you eliminated the entire civilian workforce (while still magically “accomplishing” all the government currently does), you’d reduce federal spending by only about 10%.
This is stupid. Without the private sector money paying the initial salary, there is no income to be taxed. You cannot hire an infinite number of government employees and say you're reducing costs.
...and his organizations aren't allowed to strike.
As a former federal employee myself, there is much to criticize about the federal government and federal employees.
But I am not saying that ALL federal employees are bad. They are not all bad.
The ones that are are typically the mindless paper pushing tenured bureaucrattx leaders with a sense of entitlement. It is in fact the massive government bureaucracy that is part and parcel the chief factor behind most of America’s problems. Returning power and restoring states rights would end federal bureaucracies and at the same time return much freedom and individual liberty to the people as well.
The more massive a bureaucracy becomes such as the federal government, the more waste fraud and abuse are able to find a home there...and thrive.