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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (92419)	9/3/2018 11:49:25 AM
From: epicure	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364662

I want to cut the government payroll. Let's fire Trump and Pence and get the Scrotus crime family off the government titty.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (92419)	9/3/2018 12:16:05 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By gamesmistress Respond to of 364662

"Why should federal employees get a raise?" Why shouldn't they? They are subject to the same rate of inflation as everybody else. Yes, but due to benefits (notably, pensions) they make more total compensation than private sector counterparts. That should not be. But you have to do it in a way that cuts compensation for those who are over-compensated without a broad brush approach which runs off good employees who are competitively paid. It is like everything else in government. It is not done the way private enterprise does it and private enterprise, naturally, has determined better ways of doing it (hiring and firing). "being unfireable is worth something." Rat fired a few people at the VA. At the time, they were being paid considerably less than their peers in the private sector. So was he. The president can't even fire people at the VA today. Trump fired the head of the Shreveport VA and they ended up hiring him back with back pay. (“The Department of Veterans Affairs had to take back Toby Mathew, the former director of the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center who was removed from duty in February of 2017, as a result of a flawed and outdated civil service personnel system that makes it difficult to remove employees for legitimate reasons,” Curt Cashour, press secretary at the VA, told TheDCNF.) "I personally believe this job market would be an excellent time to cut a large number of federal employees loose" When have you not wanted to cut government payrolls? I do not think we need as many government employees as we have. I would let attrition take 20% of those jobs and spend some of that money on modern IT (many IRS computers are still running Windows XP, and there are actually computers still running windows 3.1). Old languages like COBOL and FORTRAN are common for certain applications. By comparison, I have customers replace all machines every five years just for the savings on maintenance costs and employees sitting around waiting on tasks to complete. It is stupid to run 10 year old computers, let alone 20 or 30 year or older ones. So, yeah, cut personnel, develop modern systems, save money through virtualization or better yet, get this crap in AWS.