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Because service members are usually men, overwhelmingly rural and largely uneducated. Because the federal government is not allowed to discriminate, it hires a much higher percentage of women and minorities than the private sector. Make no mistake conservatives know this.
"and largely uneducated."
Not anymore and hasn't been the case for years now.
Try to keep up.
" it hires"
You show more and more how little you know with every ignorant claim on how things work with every sentence.
Last edited by Quick Enough; 06-02-2018 at 05:33 AM..
So don't complain when your Social Security checks are late or when no one answers the phone at your favorite Federal agency. Trump's simpleminded hatred of the Federal government is NOT a recipe for good government.
That wouldn't be anything new. I spent 10 months trying to get a 1099-R from Defense Finance Office. In total probably 8 hours on the phone, waiting and being hung up on.
Gov't agencies don't answer the phone anyway, in my experience. They send you straight to voice mail EVERY TIME, and then you have to sit and wait for them to return your call. I asked a boss once what would happen if we did that at our private company. He said that we would go out of business.
"Gov't agencies don't answer the phone anyway, in my experience. They send you straight to voice mail EVERY TIME".
I would not make such "wide brush" claims because of your personal experience .
Considering how much America spends on the military, which is a better choice. To increase military spending and cut Social Security and Medicare, or to decrease military spending and increase Social Security and Medicare spending?
"Do you believe we need to spend more on the military to keep America safe?"
ABSOLUTELY!
"| Florida Senator Marco Rubio admits that the Republican tax cut plan, which benefits corporations and the wealthy, will require cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for it."
The article is form Dec. 2027.
The tax bill passed.
How much from SS and medicare were ACTUALLY cut to date?
If you are going to make a claim, at least have the courtesy to back t up with REAL DATA.
Terence Jeffrey is a right wing writer. Of course he is going to give Trump the credit for what is happening naturally. The boomers are retiring. New York state government will be shrinking by 30K over the next few years. There is no big swinging dick cutting 24K in federal jobs. People will retire and the jobs will go unfilled.
Stop letting the right wing BS you.
"Terence Jeffrey is a right wing writer."
Tony is a left wing poster.
See now easy that is?
"people will retire and the jobs will go unfilled."
Which IS ELIMINATING POSITIONS.
And all we hear on here is how "SMART" the left is!
Stop letting the left wing BS you.
"There is no big swinging dick cutting"
Such immature language. The you wonder why we DON'T take you SERIOUS.
Go back the playground where you belong with your gutter language!
That wouldn't be anything new. I spent 10 months trying to get a 1099-R from Defense Finance Office. In total probably 8 hours on the phone, waiting and being hung up on.
" I spent 10 months trying to get a 1099-R from Defense Finance Office"
Right! You were the ONLY person they were trying to serve!
Do you think you are SOOO important, YOU should have been put at the FRONT of the line?
There's a joke that's been going around for decades, and it's just as true now as it was 30 years ago when I first heard it:
Q: How many people work at your agency?
A: About half of them.
Federal workers get very defensive when it is pointed out how many incompetent or lazy people are able to keep their jobs year, after year, after year, when in the private industry they wouldn't have lasted two months. That means we are not only paying for non-performers, who actually chuckle about the whole thing in secret, but for expensive contractors to come in behind them to do the actual work.
Last edited by Rachel976; 06-02-2018 at 06:02 AM..
Another thing we need to stop is the practice of rehiring employees back as contractors, to do the identical work, but at at least twice the hourly pay - and in addition to their generous pensions.
I know several people, all at GS 14 and 15 (which means salaries of between $120,000 and $150,000), and the first thing they did upon reaching retirement was to retire with a pension (many on the old system where they are drawing at least $80,000) PLUS contract back at around twice their pay (around $250,000 or more), so that it is now costing taxpayers around $350,000 a year for what formerly cost them $130,000. Multiply this by tens of thousands of employees, and soon you're talking about real money.
Or another way they do it is to retire with a pension, and then go part-time as a contractor, meaning their contractor pay at 2 or 3x a week is equivalent to their FT salary. Add in their pension, and they are earning double what they did as a federal employee while cutting their hours in half.
The real problem is with the out-of-control contractor pay.
The only people I see dropping out are Trumps own people.
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