| Comment Number: | OL-10501328 |
| Received: | 2/24/2005 3:43:11 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:
My basic thought on this is: The Federal Government should not introduce revolutionary changes to a long, well-conceived and implemented civil service system of employee behaviors and rights. To do so opens the door for a potential blood bath against people who, by and large, serve this Nation with honor and integrity. The element of subjectivity will more likely than not be the governing principle of those managers who may not themselves have achieved their positions on merit. The Federal Government is not at all like private industry. The profit motive is not the reason most people choose freely to work for the US Government. People are computers. A sizeable fraction of the Fed. Workforce is made up of disabled veterans, like myself. We deserve better treatment than to be threatened to be subjected to subjective, politically motivated dreams of how the USA should function. Most people would agree that some change is in order for the Federal Workforce. But that change should come about in an evolutionary manner, not a revolutionary manner. The basic reason for the emergence of Unions is this country was to combat mans basic desire to exploit others for monetary profit and power and control. Unions were a legal mechanism to fight against economic slavery in this country. On a personal note, I hail from the lowest economic rung in this land. My father, and his fathers grandfather, was an economic slave and was forced to work at age 10 up to 16 hours a day. Because of this he was robbed of his humanity.