Comment Number: 05-02582-EREG-85-d7391-c32091
Received: 3/1/2005 8:00:00 AM
Subject: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment
Title: National Security Personnel System
CFR Citation: 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901
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Comments:

We are throwing the baby out with the bath water. If there are problems with the current Civil Service system - then address the problems. Please don't scrap the system and reimpose a system that was replaced 50 years ago because of corruption and nepotism.
It's disappointing that solutions to problems are changed or scrapped when people forget why the safe guards were imposed in the first place. Has anyone investigated the state of affairs in Government employment 50 years ago? It would serve us well if someone did - and realized the falacy of the changes being proposed. My prediction is that human nature will currupt the new system in record time.
Also, after the outstanding performance of the civilian workforce during the Korean, Vietnam, first and second Gulf Wars - to be told that we are not meeting the chalenges "to attract and keep talent" is nothing short of insulting.