Comment Number: OL-10507063
Received: 3/14/2005 8:19:25 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:

I have read your National Security Personnel System (NSPS) and I personally think it is terrible. Does the government not have anything better to do with their time than trying to screw what is left of the federal employees? As a federal employee that cares about my job, and is also proud of it I find this to be disgraceful. We have lost so many employees due to retirement and you tell the public you are making government smaller, well in truth you are lying. You are contracting out which in the long run costs the government much more, and the public needs to know this fact. One of our offices has 4 government employees and 27 contractors. Now that is being cost effective, isn't it. What Congress approved is alot different than what our wonderful Security of Defense Donald Rumsfield is now claiming. Why don't he take a pay cut, he has not done his job very well, but I am sure he has gotten a huge raise everytime he is supposed to. You pay the military hardly nothing, and they are the ones putting their lives on the line daily, not Rumsfield. He can't even explain why the military does not have the proper equipment. The government (all branches) need to be able to hire more people, get rid of contracting out, and let us do our jobs. And when our step increase comes up we need to be able to get those too. The way it is we only get one every 2 to 3 years now, which I also think is not fair. We get a lousy pay increase yearly as to what Congress and the wonderful President decide for us. How come Congress gets a HUGE raise yearly, and we get a drop in the bucket. We are the middle class, we vote for those people and they do not help us one bit. During the congressional hearings, the Secretary asserted that the Pentagon's broad mission requires greater flexibility in hiring, disciplining, compensating and assigning civilian personnel. Why does he not speak to management. The employees that do not do their jobs, and should be told so management ignores and keeps letting them work. Management is the people that need to be looked at, not the ones that are really trying to do a good job. One of the Pentagon's objectives in advancing NSPS is to construct a so-called pay for performance system. Lets call this what it really is - another case of deceptive labeling. Agencies have tried this and it has not worked. You will pit workers against each other, they will feel cheated, and the work performance will go down. No government worker has the pride or the morale he used to have, you have taken it away. You never give the agencies the money they need, there has been no training for federal workers in years, only contractors. How can the government have no money for its agencies, but give 900 billion to relief of another country? This I do not understand. I oppose the implentation of NSPS and I urge you to act immediately and instruct the Secretary of Defense to STOP any further development of NSPS.