| Comment Number: | OL-10512213 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 11:48:59 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:
When entering Federal Service, we had to take oaths of office, not only swearing allegiance to our country and government, but also giving up a right many other workers had, namely to go on strike. My employees and I enthusiastically and untiringly supported US efforts during Desert Storm/Desert Shield, working 14 hour shifts and 7 day work weeks. The job was done. During Vietnam, there never was a shortage of volunteers amongst my colleges to go into the war zone with the soldiers. Now we are told, if some of our most basic rights are not taken by this new system, there is a security risk? How did they arrive at this solution? As civil servants we have long been the scape goat of anything that goes wrong in the government. We have been accused of being lazy, while collecting fat paychecks with unequalled benefits. My children found out a long time ago, that it is not so. They have seen me come home exhausted, and watch every penny, in order to make ends meet. None of them have any desire to work for any government agency, because of. I cannot honestly recommend Federal Civil Service to anyone. How will DOD recruit quality candidates for the future? When I joined DOD in 1981 I was too old to be considered for active duty in the Armes Forces. In 2005 I am told that I can be called up on a moment's notice to serve in the theater of operations without, amongst other things the military gets, tax benefits. Why are we still in federal service? Because we care. The guys "over there" are not mere numbers, nor faces on tv to us, but guys we have worked with. Don't drive us out with this "security measure", and replace us with employees no one else would hire?