| Comment Number: | OL-10502618 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 2:06:27 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
If NSPS ('Nother Screwing of Public Servants) was truly about improving civil service and implementing a fair system, the geniuses who thought this up would have taken the time to develop the structure of the pay bands and all the important details that would allow employees to make an informed decision. But we all know that NSPS (New Spoils Political System) is really about running civil service on the cheap, just like this administration is doing with the military. The results will be equally disasterous on recruitment/retention/morale/productivity, et al. I wrote to my congressional reps and got the perfuntory automated reply thanking me for contacting them. Yada, yada, yada. If they really cared about national security, they would never have allowed NSPS (Not So Pretty Swift) to get this far. After all, why should they care if we never get another pay raise - they give themselves any raise at any time, usually under the stealth and cover of darkness so the public finds out after the fact. Its just like submitting comments to this website - in the end, this will be forced on us, regardless of our opinion (it appears that democracy is on the march everywhere but in the good old US of A). This is just a smoke screen. NSPS (National System for Political Sycophants) really comes down to who do you trust. And you're asking me to trust an administration that lied about a war, lied about the cost of prescription drug "deform," lied about education "deform" (i.e., the No Child Left Behind Act), is using state sponsored propaganda to push its agenda, has pillaged the national treasury (which has mortgaged the futures of our great-great grandchildren) only to give billions to billionaires, and has exploited the deaths of those of killed on 9/11 to further their political agenda? Sorry, no sale. If it truly were a fair system, the SecDef would not need to strip employees of their rights and install himself as Supreme Everything. King George the Pious (Bush) said that he wouldn't reinstate the military draft under any circumstances. Why should he? After all, now he can just force the civilians to go in their place. You think the current system makes it hard to recuit and retain quality performers? You ain't seen nothing yet. Thanks, ladies and gentlemen of Congress, for allowing decades of civil rights to be trampled on. Thanks for imposing a dictatorship on us just to assuage the ego of one man. Thanks for returning us to the days when toadies and bootlickers ran the government. DOD civil servants are the civilian backbone of this nation's defense and have made invaluable contributions to the freedom and security of this country. Most of us are veterans as well so we've been on both sides of the fence. But, you see how this administration rewards loyalty. Screw up as National Security Advisor and get promoted to Secretary of State. Declare the Geneva Convention Treaty obsolete, leading to the abuse of prisoners of war, and get promoted to Attorney General of the United States. For those of you who voted for King George and his merry band of Rethuglicans, suck it up. This is as much your fault as it is the administration's since you obviously viewed the last four years of debt, death and destruction as a good thing. But, hey, at least they got Martha Stewart. So when they're feeding us that bull that there's no money available for raises, locality pay, etc., we can all feel better about that contribution to national security. “Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.” Joaquin Setanti