| Comment Number: | OL-10511977 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 7:05:51 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:
Re: Pages 7552-7556. This so-called "transformation" of the civil service system is nothing more than a grand sham on a monumental scale, a gross cover-up for an underlying agenda: (1) to put civil servants directly under the thumb of a hawkish, war-mongering, war-privateering administration, and (2) to divest the civil service system of the egalitarian rights on which it was founded and by which it has been maintained (right reason, consideration for employee rights and collective bargaining, checks and balances to avoid managerial abuse), and instead to reconstruct it in a form consonant with the rabidly business-worshiping paradigm underlying every thought and action of the nefarious current administration, whose only god is self-interest and the almighty dollar. They attempt to achieve the first part of the agenda not by redefining management of personnel, as this document purports to do, but by using sophistry and manipulative rhetoric to redefine public servants per se, making them clones of the military, subject to draft and deployment, and then acting as though this definition of them is a given, when in actuality another definition of a civil servant is not only possible but imperative. They attempt to achieve the second part of the agenda by putting in place structures that may save the system some money in the short haul but will be the ruin of it in the long haul. While a few golden-haired favorites of their personal supervisor friends may benefit a little, the average worker will lose very significant income through loss of steady grade progression, within-grade increases, and all the monies that, based on these, would have accrued to his/her retirement benefits for many long years. Performance assessment has never worked in the past because it is predicated on the assumption that supervisors are neither ignorant, nor capricious, nor inclined to favoritism. I ask you, gentle reader, in your experience, how true is this assumption? Civil servants are not idiots. We know a hawk from a handsaw, and we know when we're being used and abused. Like most civil servants, I have always tried to utilize only professional language in responding to issues, but this NSPS farce is so transparently disgusting that the only thing it merits in response is vulgarities: As for trying to convince me that this "transformation" will benefit me, my only response is "Don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining," and as for allowing myself to be deployed to Slobovia to support war-mongerers parading as defenders of the nation, my only response is "Hell no, I won't go."