Return to Article: With Bush victory, new phase of reform effort seen
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7085
Let's have a show of hands...how many of you are actually from the DNC? And I thought the leader of the DNC, Terry McAuliffe (or whatever his name is) was vile and contemptuous.
I don't like many of George Bush's ideas anymore than most of you, but in looking at the big picture, he was the lesser of the two evils. Had the Dems put up someone half-way electible, things could very easily be different now. As long as they continue to throw up liberal candidates, it's going to be a while before you see another in the White House. And...who's to say Kerry would have treated civil servants any better than the President? We already know he's going to say/promise anything to get elected.
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7007
At least the MORON knows he is one. The rest of us should ignore his blind idea of reality. He probably thinks the country does not have to pay back borrowed money. The Chinese, Japanese, Saudi's and many other coutries have a strangle hold on our children and grandchildrens futures. But the MORON does not care, he doesn't have to pay it so it is just fine with him.
At least a tax and spend administration has the money to spend. Borrowed money only exists if someone loans it to us or the government steals it from Social Security.
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What reform? It's the same old problems and this years acronym. You can't reform groups like Defense Logistics Agency that are cold war relics to begin with. Thy obsolete no matter what you do. You can't fix problems caused by bad management when you keep the bad managers. You can't stop waste and fraud if your waste, fraud and abuse group does little more than silence whistle blowers.
If there was ever real reform, many federal managers would be leaving to avoid prosecution. Ain't gonna happen. Is it?
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Winning just isn't enough, is it? The "Moron" and the person accussing Kerry of being a traitor just can't help themselves... I wonder what they (or their types) will do with their authority under the PATRIOT ACT?
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So John Kerry is a traitor. Ok. I'll bite. Let's do a little history reminder. At the same time President Nixon and Henry Kissinger were telling the country that the war was still winnable and there would be no peace without honor, Kissinger was having secret meetings with the North Vietnamese trying to figure out a way to capitulate with at least a bit of face saving. What message, Mr. Moron, did that send to Ho Chi Minh? Does that meet your definition of traitorous? Was that, in effect, aiding and abetting the enemy? Until you get over the bitterness and anger that you seem to harbor, be very careful who you label a traitor. There were millions who protested the Vietnam war. History has judged. They were the true patriots and the voice of reason.
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Dear Bush v. Kerry,
I appreciate your list of things we need to do.
You forgot about the Nukes in North Korea and the soon to be nukes in Iran pointed at Israel and Europe.
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Am I the only one who thinks the big winner of this election was Carl DeMaio? Ask not what you can do for the PMA. Ask what the PMA can do for you.
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6947
My fellow Americans and civil servants....look at it this way, Bush winning may not be a bad thing, this way he has 4 more years to clean up the mess he helped make, to a certain extent anyway, and if he drives the economy further into the hole, does nothing with health care, loses more jobs, outsources more jobs and doesn't get us out of Iraq, HE will go down in history as one of our worst, most destructive Presidents, a legacy I'm sure the Bushes don't want.
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Bush VS Kerry in the oval office, it's a moot issue now, we need to support our president until he either causes a world war or gets impeached, neither is likely to happen. What we need to do now is resolve the Iraq deal, find and kill Bin Laden, lower the deficit, and focus on America. I think both candidates are moral people with deep convictions, I just hope Bush can complete what he started, perhaps now in his second term.
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Dear Moron -
If you dislike the government so much that you want to see it "get the drowning it so richly deserves", why do you work for it?
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Average American Moron - See the mentality of those who think four more years of Bush is what this country needs.
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Oh come off it. Name your "most favorite presidents" from the past and I will guarantee they all had their sexual skeletons. Matter of fact, I am positive Nixon, JFK or LBJ had their hands on an intern while a warm casualty report was sitting on their desk. Thanks to TV and the media, however, you can now view their personal life in realtime. Having sex with an intern is deplorable to you, but having a former alcoholic with a criminal record that can't keep his own kids off of booze and drugs in the oval office is just fine. If Clinton meant his vows and Bush respected his body as a temple, both are wrong, so don't exacerbate one and dull the other.
If Kerry is a traitor, then anyone who thought Vietnam was wrong should be considered a traitor. Questioning government is essential every step of the way. Anyone who puts the lid on his moral objections to do the will of the sovereign is a traitor to himself, and that is far worse.
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To the person who could never vote for a traitor and that there is nothing George W could do to convince you otherwise.
Being a retired federal employee I will assume you have kids and grandkids-- how about trading away their economic prosperity by borrowing against future generations because you refuse to raise revenue today to pay for anything?
Senator Kerry may have done stuff you don't like but as far as I'm concerned that is ancient history-- I'm more concerned that my children have a good quality of life and I don't see that happening with an administration that borrows today to pay for things we cannot afford!
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6912
I don't understand the guy who thinks that trying to stop the worthless Vietnam War was a traitorous act. The traitors were the politicians who got 55,000 Americans killed for nothing. I guess he thinks that anyone is a traitor who dares to complain if an American president invades any random country that didn't attack us first. Where would he draw the line? What if the nutcase in the White House attacked Sweden? Or Switzerland? Or "Old Europe"? I guess we'd better just shut up or be labeled traitors because what's good for the Bush gangs' pocketbooks is, by definition, good for America. God help us all.
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I was looking at the main story and it's about how the union wants to urge Bush to rethink his management initiatives, is this a joke or something, are they serious, do they really think Bush has nothing better to do then meet with the union let alone change anything? Seems the union jumps only after 20/20 hindsight.
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This means 4 more years of pricey Performance Institute conferences on how to "Win with the PMA." Carl DeMaio will have two Bentleys, a villa in France, and his own private jet before the PMA is over.
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Evidently I am among the few that frequent this forum that remember John Kerry's testimony before the Congress of the United States and his subsequent meetings with the leadership of North Vietnam. What he did with the North Vietnamese made him a traitor, take a look at our Constitution, and see what it says about giving comfort to our enemies. What he did to his "brothers" still serving and held prisoner is unforgiveable. Some of you obviously think that the behavior of our last Democratic President was OK, so what's a little supporting of an enemy of the United states 33 years ago have to do with today. After all, getting a little sexual pleasure in the oval office or being a traitor to your country...six of one half a dozen of the other.
While I don't agree with what Bush is doing to federal employees, I am a retired federal employee, the thought of Kerry the traitor as President is so repugnant that there is nothing that George W can or will do that would even come close to the damage the leadership of our country by a traitor would do to all of us and the world.
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Oh dear God, what have we done?! Before W is done this nation will will be hemorrhaging red ink for generations to come. Nothing he has done or will do remotely resembles good business practice let alone good government. Government is about service, process and rule of law. There is nothing in his management agenda that adresses any of that. There was a time I was proud to be a public servant. With four more years of W at the helm I'm not so sure any more.
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Oh Boy, Bush is going to have a field day with us now...... Positive note though, I'm eligible to retire next year if I so choose. Next 4 years I see nothing but more bad for us.
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6904
In 4 years we will be so deep in an economic depression and isolated form the world community that today will look like a real sunny day. It really didn't matter who won yesterday-- President Bush is facing deficits that are so huge that no amount of borrowing from Saudi Arabia will save our economy and since the world economy is tightly linked- we are facing years of world-wide ecomonic disaster. My suggestion to Mr. Bush is to immediately raise revenue and pay down the debt but of course it will be ignored since we are again operating under the assumption that the economic engine is going to jumpstart and save us--
Mr. President, the engine is out of gas and I don't think the Saudis are going to continue lending us such gasoline for our engine. AOL just announced 700 more employees will lose their jobs in Va. The employees in the airline industry are facing massive paycuts. Unless this President wishes to be thought of in the same vein as Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover I really suggest a new, New Deal.
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6903
Oh Lord, you people are hilarious! I will enjoy watching you flop around like the flunkies you are for the next 4 years. Best cash out right now and go to work for those contractors! HA! God Bless America and may government get the drowning it so richly deserves.
The Guv
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Expect this type of information to be blocked in the very near future.T his administration will take all critical comments as an attack that must be defeated. As this is a dot-com site it will soon be unavailable for government employees. In 4 years we will be fortress America with no allies, including the Brit's who are running away from us now. Tony Blair will lose his reelection bid.
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Oh, Lord! What are we going to do now?
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6899
OK. Looks like W won. Expect the following for the federal workforce; pay freeze 2006; change from high 3 for CSRS retirement to high 5; tighter and tighter budgets which makes it more difficult to successfully do our agency mission, which leads to perceived mission failure, which justifies contracting out the work and the jobs; governmentwide personnel reform better known as management gets to do whatever they darn well please.
I sure hope I am wrong.
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