The whole thing is disgusting. Federal workers should NOT be unionized, nor should they receive “back pay” after taking a nice break from work! Firing 50% of Federal workers would be a nice start.
I agree that government workers should not be unionized. What is truly disgusting is the “100 percenters,” who are paid to work only on union business. They, like the government EEO offices - whose employees are paid by the government to intake, investigate and move EEO cases AGAINST the government through the pipeline - should be dumped.
But this is what FDR, LBJ, Carter, Clinton - and now Obama - wanted. A permanent class of leftists populating the executive branch.
The thing is, the most entrenched libs are the ones who are there declaring themselves “essential,” whether they are or not.
>>Firing 50% of Federal workers would be a nice start.<<
Don’t forget that Bush was the one who was the reason the number of federal employees nearly doubled... when he approved the Dept. Homeland Security. So, I agree, get rid of the DHS and it will automatically cut the number of fed employees.