Comments on: Pre-election day Obama to gov’t workers: I’ll work hard to keep your jobs secure

By: Dionysus

Dionysus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:49 +0000

I’m a federal employee and my job is already secure (unless I intentionally screw up). Besides, if my job gets abolished for a contractor I have seniority, which means “they” have to find me another position.

By: forest hunter

forest hunter — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:21:36 +0000

Here's a couple promises that I expect the *O* WILL try hard to keep.

By: patriotversus

patriotversus — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:38:43 +0000

Obama is the biggest con artiste of all time, trying to give billions of free money to his automobile union cronies in the guise of a bailout. It’s a matter of months bfore he’s impeached & becomes a footnote in history.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:15:25 +0000

I belonged to AFGE for a time, mostly to protest NSPS. Some of the things that Rummy wanted to do thru that pay system was not very nice. 1 thing in particular came up on this base, a few years ago, was a 58 year old man was told he had 24 hours to leave for Iraq, duty which he never volunteered for. When he declined to go, they threatened his job, telling him that NSPS makes it illegal for him to decline. They told him that they were going to throw him in jail if he didn’t go. He went to the union, the union went to our Congressman, the Congressman called the Pentagon, the Pentagon called the Colonel here, the Colonel told everyone involved that NO ONE was going to jail for declining to go to Iraq. This was when they wanted to make NSPS seem like a good system. They are still working on it, but many still don’t like it. I was also hoping that AFGE would help the agency I used to work for, to stay here, but sadly that didn’t happen. When I was transferred to this new office, I declined signing up for Union representation. When asked, I usually mutter something about how they didn’t help save my last position, why would I care now. – Lorica

By: Teri Pittman

Teri Pittman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:19:20 +0000

Maybe he can do something about outsourcing the government call centers to India. I can’t tell you how much it ticked me off today to call Social Security and get India on the line. Sallie Mae does the same thing (although that is at least a quasi-private entity.)

I’m still waiting for my pony though…

By: Public Secrets

Public Secrets — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:41:38 +0000

Change you can believe in…

Just wait until you get a load of President-elect Obama’s choice for White House Counsel, the president’s top legal adviser. Among his more illustrious clients is Ronald Reagan’s assassin. What’s next? Squeaky Fromme as head of his Secret Service d…