| Comment Number: | EM-017450 |
| Received: | 3/13/2005 12:57:41 PM |
| 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:
Department of Defense Bradley Bunn Dear Department of Defense Bunn, When workers are treated as valuable assets to the company or corporation for whom they toil, they succeed and corporate goals are met. This has been found time after time when workplace issues have been researched by organizational psychologists and others. Now, Donald Rumsfeld might take over personnel policies -- for 750,000 Defense Dept. workers. Why??? Mr. Rumsfeld has shown repeatedly, that he lacks empathy toward the "average working person". He does not know what it feels like to be the target of people who want to kill you when you don't have the proper armor to be safe. Poor parents have bought armor for their sons, but instead of being ashamed and reimbursing the family, Mr. Rumsfeld simply shrugs. This is disgraceful! Yet, when confronted by a soldier, Mr. Rumsfeld said the equivalent of "Gee -- you just have to make due with what you've got." This man has never had to struggle... has never been out of control, and is incapable of recognizing the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of Americans, injured troops he sent into harms way, where he never chose to go. My field of expertise is clinical psychology. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that Mr. Rumsfeld is a person who requires that he be completely in control of his life, and now the lives of hundreds of thousands of our troops and the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. He's wonderful to himself; it's a shame he does so little for those at his merciless command. I believe that Rumsfeld proved himself to be incapable of performing in a capacity in which he must care enough about others that he does what he can for their welfare. That he has not done so is incompetance or perhaps criminal negligence, because apparently, Halliburton's excesses take precedence over troops' lives. If Mr. Rumsfeld is this callous in the face of the death of others he promised to protect, how can anyone think it is proper to put him in charge of workers' rights in the United States? There are veterans among civil service defense workers; they were used in war and now they're going to be forgotten all over again. Isn't there a law forbidding this kind of double jeopardy? I believe the proposed National Security Personnel System (NSPS) regulations will undermine the civil service and hurt the ability of Defense Department employees to accomplish the agency's mission. Please delay final implementation until the proper steps have been taken to involve the elected representatives of Defense Department workers. Sincerely,