| Comment Number: | OL-10510723 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 11:33:58 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 am not in favor of the new National Security Personnel System (NSPS). How the attacks of 9-11 can be tied into reorganizing DoD personnel system is a travesty. The last twenty years has seen sweeping changes in OPM. The degradation of the federal bureaucracy started with the implementation of FERS. I am under FERS and will not be able to retire to age 70. Then, several years ago the government changed the requirement that military officers would be penalized by a reduction in retirement pay if they became civil servants. Now, they have been consistently brought back into the same jobs as civilians as they had as military officers and at high grades i.e. GS 14 and 15s. In addition, you want to bring back the spoils system of government with NSPS. Allowing non government civilians to be hired in mass at the whims of political appointees. I thought we learned our lessons in the early 1800s. What new college graduate would be loyal to such a system? You will find they will take government job to either be trained or they have no other choice. Either way, the best ones will not stay. Even though we did not have a voice in this debacle, we are still in position to help this country’s defense. Demoralizing the already poor civil service morale is not an answer for improved Home Land Security.