[mdittmar]

Well,this union boss is using the same dem tactics,You won't get your social security,your workplace won't be safe,the environment will be polluted,you won't have safe food or clean water!

blah,blah,blah,more fake news from the largest Federal Employee Union.

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

[DoodleDawg]

The freeze is also temporary. Within 90 days the Directors of the Office and Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management have to come up with a long-term plan to reduce the federal workforce through attrition. Once that plan is enacted then the Executive Order expires.

But I think the Administration may have just painted themselves into a corner. Per the EO "...no vacant positions existing at noon on January 22, 2017, may be filled and no new positions may be created..." I assume that applies to the East Wing and the West Wing too?

[MamaDearest]

First to go should be Obama’s 16,000 newly hired IRS agents who were hired on behalf of Obamacare.

[SgtHooper]

WooHOO! Bring the pain BB! It hurts so good!!! Hit me! Hit ME!

[SES1066]

The last thing that these UNION-First people want is for us, the taxpaying private citizens, to remember the old unwritten civil contract and difference between government employment and its private sector counterpart.

Work for government and you get steady and near-lifetime employment. You get all of the holidays, good vacations, benefits and a decent but not spectacular pension.

Work in the private sector and you risk unemployment if your employer fails to perform. Your holidays, vacations, benefits and pensions are vulnerable to market conditions but also have chances to out-perform. Unlike government, you are probably judged individually and given a chance to go faster and further than you would in a bureaucracy.

In today’s employment marketplace, it appears that anyone who is not in the top 10% in ability and drive, would be stupid to not choose government employment if offered. Sinecure and stability versus risk and murky reward.

This is the PERCEPTION desired by the LEFTIST, those who want the STATE to exceed the Individual! This is what this Union leader wants his minions to think and worry about. If the Democrat drones in the bureaucracy can throw enough sand in the gears, we risk a lot.

President Trump, on the other hand, NEEDS to ignite the individual, excite the Entrepreneur, show how the age of Capitalism is not moribund and is available to ALL. If he can bring this to the blighted Blue Cities, to the fatherless children who see no hope beyond the next gang killing, THEN WE HAVE A CHANCE!

[blueplum]

Federal employee unions are a conflict of interest

[Interesting Times]

Federal government unions were permitted to organize by a JFK executive order, after having previously been illegal.

Hint, hint....

[TruthWillWin]

A hiring freeze will cost taxpayers money? That twisted logic thinking is exactly why almost all government agencies waste taxpayers money.