tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302795000497411021.post3186446773258583366..comments2023-03-30T03:50:08.703-07:00Comments on Fredd: Public sector workers continue to 'phone it in.'Freddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778430453468720627noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302795000497411021.post-64932459606699510662011-07-28T11:43:29.987-07:002011-07-28T11:43:29.987-07:00Personally, I think our Forefather's had the c...Personally, I think our Forefather's had the correct thinking. Basically, if you didn't pay taxes, you didn't get to vote.<br /><br />I'd also like to have public union pay and benefits be voted on BY THE PUBLIC THEY WORK FOR! I find it quite funny that the unions have to bus people in to get support.<br /><br />The day of the union is going to come to an end.Krystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10256521369614598137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302795000497411021.post-37413634765270542562011-07-10T07:15:27.470-07:002011-07-10T07:15:27.470-07:00Silver:
Gubmint workers are all movitivated by th...Silver:<br /><br />Gubmint workers are all movitivated by the same thing: justify their jobs by jacking up the numbers of those who depend on them, regardless of whether the end result benefits society at large.<br /><br />When I was a SSG in the Army, I was ordered to take all the ammo we had in late September and fire it up: shoot every last round off, or we would end up with a surplus going into the next fiscal year starting in October. Incredible, enormous extravagent waste, I couldn't stand to watch it happen. But no other decision was possible, you see, since if we had extra, that meant that we clearly didn't need last year's allotment, and accordingly next year's would be adjusted downward.<br /><br />No commander at any level wants to see less of anything, ever. And that thinking is rampant in every bureaucracy everywhere.Freddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10778430453468720627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302795000497411021.post-23476602999937381302011-07-10T06:01:53.409-07:002011-07-10T06:01:53.409-07:00You've nailed it again, Fredd. There is no in...You've nailed it again, Fredd. There is no incentive for performance. ORPO1 and others doing production work are the exceptions.<br /><br />Take teachers for example, the more dumb kids who can't speak English, the better for them!<br /><br />Same for social welfare workers. The more poor, starving helpless people the better. It justifies their jobs.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302795000497411021.post-76154533421449399462011-07-10T05:19:12.849-07:002011-07-10T05:19:12.849-07:00ORPO1:
True, not all government employees are lay...ORPO1:<br /><br />True, not all government employees are laying around in hammocks.<br /><br />But MOST are. And we are paying them to slack. That's my point.<br /><br />Your exception to the rule does not invalidate my argument, however. <br /><br />BUT.... this 'minimum retirement' of yours is something that we still pay for, long after you have finished putting Band-Aids on your boo-boos, ORPO. Once you hit 65, you are out the door.<br /><br />And say (God willing) that you hit 100 years old. That's 35 years of this minimum retirement of yours that all of us are paying for (in addition to all of those COLA increases, etc), although you have not lifted a finger to support one lousy F-16 do its job in all of those 35 years.<br /><br />The system is broken horribly, and is unsustainable. Don't discount your 'minimum retirement' so easily. What happens to you when the US can no longer pay anybody's retirement? Including yours? Will you take up arms against the taxpayers who refuse to get milked any longer?Freddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10778430453468720627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302795000497411021.post-41415999679113366242011-07-09T19:27:46.784-07:002011-07-09T19:27:46.784-07:00OK, I am a federal civil servant. Been at it for l...OK, I am a federal civil servant. Been at it for less than two years. I am a crew chief on the F-16 in a test and evaluation squadron at Edwards AFB CA. But you can be sure that all of us bust our humps in what we do. The newest jet we have was built in 1991! <br />I usually am filthy, hot, sweaty and really damn tired. Sometimes with nicks and cuts still bleeding.<br />And I do not belong to the union. I started this job at the age of 55 after being laid off in a corporate aircraft manufacturing plant in Wichita. I was out of work for eight months. And I had to have a kidney removed due to a cancerous tumor before hiring on.<br />And I get minimum retirement starting two months after I hit sixty five.Glenn Mark Casselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305109383344139028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302795000497411021.post-59827611320390551562011-07-09T11:11:50.474-07:002011-07-09T11:11:50.474-07:00SB5 in Ohio, already passed, comes up for a repeal...SB5 in Ohio, already passed, comes up for a repeal vote in November. We'll see which way the wind blows.<br /><br />I'd say we're headed for a war. The terminally dependent vs those of us paying them.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.com