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  The goal of this administration is simple - Obliterate the "New Deal". Wake up federal employees! Unions - gone. Worker rights - gone. Your right to appeal - gone! I hope you are all intelligent enough to go to the polls in November and vote. If not, I hope you like living in an AMANA refrigerator box. The middle class as we know it is disappearing fast. And, if we give this guy another 4 years, it will disappear completely. I am not bitter about President Bush. He is just doing what his party wants. It's time we all do what our party wants. It's time to make a choice.

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 2, 2004 5:41 AM
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  OMB has to justify it's existence by having these competition quotas, whether they are needed or not. Their ultimate goal is to eliminate ALL federal positions; then they have completed their mission successfully. They are not sure why they have to do this mission, perhaps the reason was forgotten long ago. The reason, of course, is to give all of Bush's and his cronies' CEO friends (or future CEOs) work and money (the money of course will largely go to the CEOs since they pay their workers so little and have pathetic benefits packages).

  Let me tell you grand it will be based upon facts. I worked for a couple of contractors years ago. As an Electronics Engineer right out of college in '94 I made the grand sum of $26,000. Within a year, it was $26,500. You can't even afford rent in my area on that wage. Senior EEs were making $40k. The CEO flaunted his wealth in front of our faces. The company was a small "family" type. Other contractors were not any better. Today, so many qualified Engineers are leaving contractors and even companies like Lucent to find employment in civil service; doesn't that tell you something about how bad it is in the private sector?? So, do you want to pay a few ENRON type CEOs mega-millions at the expense of their employees (aka Privatize), or cut out the CEOs and pay the hard workers a fair and decent wage (Federal system). Kind of like charities; how much of your money actually goes to the needy child and not to "administrative costs".

  Carmina Sanchez Posted December 31, 2003 2:34 PM
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  If competition is the name of the game, remember to play at the voting booth.

  GovExec.com reader Posted December 30, 2003 8:59 PM
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  850,000 jobs up for competition equals 850,000 votes. Wake up government employees! We are being sold on the auction block. Call and write your congressional representatives.

  GovExec.com reader Posted December 30, 2003 11:17 AM
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  This whole thing just makes me sick. Why on earth the big hurry and why on earth is it so necessary for the competitions in the first place? They are expensive, don't usually end up being tracked to see if the winner (when a contractor) really did save the government money and you lose the loyalty and commitment that you have from those of us who have spent many hours supporting the war fighters in this country. I just don't get what the real benefit is here. Shifting numbers from federal employee to contractor employee is a shell game at best. You all are so busy playing politics that you don't even care about those that we serve in the Defense Department. Shame on you all!

  GovExec.com reader Posted December 29, 2003 3:05 PM
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  Why the rush in 2004, Mr. Johnson?

  Is it because your administration may be voted out next year? Perhaps your goal is to kick down and destroy as many sand castles as you can in a year.

  You cannot disguise this meanspirited attack as a business process. This administration continues to prove how greedy it can be.

  Merry Christmas!

  GovExec.com reader Posted December 24, 2003 10:47 AM