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Harry[_2_]

On 12/27/09 12:52 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:57:57 -0500,
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On 12/27/09 1:56 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:30 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:52:21 -0500,
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On 12/26/09 8:35 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:17:44 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
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TSA

Again Jon Stewart points out things the real news missed

Obama still hasn't filled the office of director of TSA.

Bush's TSA is a department of idiots. The best thing Obama could do is
restructure it, replace every bit of management, and retrain the entire
staff. Leaving SF for Chicago and then DC a couple of weeks ago, I ran
into a TSA'er who spent five minutes shining a blue flashlight onto my
state driver's license. She was looking in the wrong place for the
"invisible" part. So I said, "Want to examine one of my concealed carry
permits?" They all have my photo on them, too. I thought she was going
to loogy her pants.

It was the Democrats who demanded that we fire the private security
people and make them "fireproof" government dweebs.

You're in favor of Blackwater running the TSA?? I don't think so...

Blackwater is the group protecting Hillary right now so somebody likes
them.
There was still no reason why the actual screeners could not be
contracted and working under TSA guidance. The way it is, we own those
people forever, even if they came up with a lot less labor intensive
way to screen passengers. If anything, having 45,000 minimally
skilled employees, you can't fire, will stifle innovation. "Thinking"
was never a job requirement for this job.

Are you under the delusion that federal employees are immune from layoffs?

They aren't.

But it really hasn't happened since the Eisenhower administration.
Tell me about ONE year when federal employment actually went down
since 1960.
If you threaten to lay off a federal employee they start firing off
171s and get a new job before they lose a pay check. Usually that is
not even necessary because when they close an agency, another one
springs up in the same building with the same people. The only thing
that changed was the name on the building.
They changed so many signs during the Carter administration the joke
was GSA installed them with thumb screws.
Us Coast and Geodetic Survey on Montrose rd became ESSA and then NOAA.
AEC in Germantown became ERDA and then DOE (maybe something else I
forgot in between). HEW on Parklawn drive changed names a couple
times ending up being HHS.
If you were walking around in the building every day nothing changed
but the stationary.

Actually, the RIF I vaguely recall took place during the reagan
mis-administration, in the fall of his first year in office. I remember
it because I had as a client a couple of postal unions, and thanks to
the contract, they were exempt. The client contact was recruited by the
reagan admin to become deputy pmg, and I could have gone along as his
chief assistant. We both were not interested. The USPS was infected with
the worst management of any organization on the face of the earth.