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15 years ago @ Big Government - Comparing the Life of ... · 0 replies · +6 points

PART 2

Third, my job required me to be on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I worked on my children's birthdays, after hours and was once sent overseas with only 24 hours notice (I worked at USDA). The head of our agency (he would equal a CEO but paid much less) was on a flight to catch a cruise for vacation but had to return to the office as soon as the plane landed to handle an emergency - no cruise and no reimbursement (this actually happened twice and his wife almost threw him a beating.

I just wanted to make it clear there are some people who really do more for less in the Fed. I think there was a time for unions and that it is long past. This includes both public and private sector unions. I am a believer in the PATCO answer to unions but most people don't have the balls for it.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Comparing the Life of ... · 1 reply · +4 points

A few years ago, I left a Federal job to move to the private section (I couldn't take the waste and politics anymore. Although, 15 months after joining the private section I was laid off). I had been with the Fed for about 15 years and I would like to share some of my observations with you based on the above article.

First, the major unions covering federal employees must cover all Federal employees regardless of membership. This was built into the rules to keep them weak as not many Feds join.

Second, what looks like a sweet government deal for some is really not. The problem is that pay scale in the Fed is more based on time in service than performance. The GS scale (which is slowly changing) sometimes can't tell the difference between a janitor and a veterinarian or a paralegal and a top notch lawyer. The pay can be the same for both despite the difference in education and experience. There are secretaries who have been there 25 years and reached near the top of the pay scale.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Dems Gone Wild: Citize... · 0 replies · +3 points

I'm sorry. This story didn't have an ending. If the cops weren't called to report an assult immediately after it happened then it was all bullshit. Wouldn't it have made more sense to get images of the police cars and officers going into the church? It would have been a much better embarrassment to the candidate for this event to, at the very least, show up in the local police blotter?

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Judge overturns Calif.... · 0 replies · +3 points

Absolutely. Government has no business in marriage. It is a religious institution. In the end, it is all contract law.

16 years ago @ Big Journalism - The Top Twelve Faux Me... · 0 replies · +1 points

Don't forget catching Mad Cow Disease from eating beef. I worked for the USDA at the time and what HHS never said was that it occurs naturally in about 100,000 (I think, it was a while ago) people in the U.S. in a year. A dozen or so people got the new varient kind from eating beef and that is still a strech based on the science.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Disputed Science Can L... · 0 replies · +2 points

Can we leave the Union yet?

16 years ago @ Big Government - Disputed Science Can L... · 1 reply · +3 points

Hi John. I would love to see a flat tax with an elimination of all tax breaks for all people of the U.S. Then, once we pay down the debt, most Federal taxes can be slowly phased out.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Tiger and Barack · 0 replies · +1 points

Okay, now hold still whilest I slip it in from behind - Tiger

mmm mmm mmm - Obama

16 years ago @ Big Government - 12 National Orgs Co-Si... · 0 replies · +2 points

He's protecting it from himself. It's like a protection racket. You pay me and I won't kill you.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Reason.tv: Red, White,... · 0 replies · +1 points

Don't you mean whine czar?

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