| Comment Number: | OL-10508381 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 7:32:46 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:
During my tenure as a federal employee over the past 21 years, I have NEVER seen a plan that would be more demoralizing to the federal workforce than the proposed NSPS regulations. This is, basically, giving management all of the rights in the world to do as they please and the employees get no rights. Isn't the morale of most federal employees bad enough the way it is? The rights of federal employees were earned over years of negotiations with the Pentagon, Congress and other areas of the federal government pertinent to the areas of the employees. lf this goes through, NOBODY will want to work for the federal government. Employees will be retiring early, resigning, and even being removed from federal service within a few years of each other as a result of the regulations governing what the conditions of the workforce will be. lt wouldn't take long to replace the entire workforce with contractors, and God knows we have enough of them already. lf the government wants to cut their costs, cut out the contractors! You'd be surprised at what contractors cost the government if you add it up. Contractors have a reputation of taking advantage of the government when the time warrants. They have more control over verbiage in contracts than we do and they structure contracts where they make out like bandits (most of the time - l've never heard of a contractor losing money on a government contract). l've even heard stories where contractors are awarded a contract, but perform the work in Canada or Mexico where labor rates are cheaper. Therefore, Americans are without jobs. Everybody knows that the Bush Administration wants to contract out the entire federal government workforce and l see it as this (the NSPS) being one avenue to achieve that goal. One person, whether a man or woman, shouldn't have the ultimate power to do what he/she desires at the flick of a pen as this illustrates for the Secretary of Defense. lt's the same thing as allowing the President to do what he wants with the nation and nobody else has any say so. Not Congress or the Supreme Court. Look what happened in countries like Iraq where one person had all of the power! Would we want to live like that? I think not. lf the government wants to cut spending on issues (such as appeals) and such, l can understand that (some appeals processes are quite lengthy and costly). But the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) is NOT the answer. There HAS to be a better way that hasn't been thought of yet.