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preferential treatment to vets
Thats the greatest story ever.
preferential treatment to vets
Was that whole buy from america done after the army put everyone in black berets which were made in china?
No idea. Dont know about textiles, doo.
But the equipment you flew and drove while wearing that ridiculous hat? American made.
The Buy America thing has been in place in construction for at least 30 years that I know of.
So we can establish that equipment and construction are definitely under the clause.
Textiles, not so much.
preferential treatment to vetsHigh-five!
You and I both know that nearly all the gov positions worth any money are 90% filled by former vets...
I don't know the GS system except that in my job field, when i looked, much higher GS levels are attainable with just an associates, or equivalent. Most entry jobs do not start at high GS levels without higher degrees, but you can climb up the ladder once in.
We need the well-schooled Mandarins to manage us, of course.
I wonder how many times he burns them?
...or a partnership with our NA neighbors to secure and spread out risk.
So the American taxpayer is subsidizing the lucrative employment of a host of former grad students. That's the issue here, regardless of the public v private sector professions mix in employment.
The last decade should have disabused the notion in the populace of the value of well-schooled individuals in positions of power in this country, be it in the public or private sector.
Perhaps.
Either we believe that human knowledge is held by a few and rationed out in semester long installments or it's generally accessible and available to all who care to pursue it.
The impeccable, reliable Dean Baker shows how Repug/tea bagger campaign bull is meant to target the innocent while protecting the guilty:
The Public Pension Outrage and Alan Greenspan's Pension
Monday 16 August 2010
by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
In recent weeks, there has been a serious effort by the conservatives and even many centrists to whip up anger at public sector workers over their pensions. The basic story is that public sector workers get better pensions on average than their private sector counterparts. At the same time, most state and local pension funds have large shortfalls, implying that additional government revenue will be needed to keep them solvent.
This is supposed to make people really angry at public sector workers. The right-wing noise factory has been whipping up the hostility at public employees, sensing that they may have another ACORN on their hands. A New York Times columnist even called on retired public employees to give back pensions for which they worked and have solid legal claims.
We should recognize the attack on public sector workers for what it is: a sleazy case of scapegoating that it is intended to divert people's attention from the real villains in this economy, the Wall Street boys and the inept economic policymakers who took the economy to ruin and seem intent on leaving it there.
The basic facts are straightforward. Adjusting for education and experience, public sector workers actually get paid slightly less on average than their counterparts in the private sector. It is likely that the lower pay is largely or fully offset by a better benefit package, but it is likely that the difference in benefit packages between public and private sector workers is not as large as it may seem.
First, it is important to realize that public sector workers are far more likely to have a college or advanced degree than the population as a whole. While most workers have little by way of a defined benefit or defined contribution pension, most workers with college or advanced degrees can count on being en led to at least a modest pension income in retirement.
Second, many public sector workers are not covered by Social Security. This means that whatever they get from a government pension will be the bulk of their retirement income; it will not be a supplement to their Social Security benefits. With this in mind, the $22,000 pension that an average retired public employer received in 2007 hardly seems excessive.
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The reason that millions of people are suffering is a combination of Wall Street greed and incredible economic mismanagement. As we know, the Wall Street boys are back on their feet, with profits and bonuses again at record levels, thanks to the trillions of dollars in bailout money handed to them by the government in the fall of 2008. If people want to be angry at someone, the multi-million dollar bonuses going to hotshot traders at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan might be a better target than a retired school teacher's $3,000 a month pension.
The other appropriate target for the public's anger is the people running economic policy, who failed to prevent this entirely preventable disaster. While there are many people who should be unemployed for this colossal failure (none are), the culprit in chief is Alan Greenspan, arguably the worst central banker of all time. He insisted that everything was just fine even as the housing bubble expanded in size to more than $8 trillion at its peak. Did he think the bubble would just keep expanding forever or did he really believe that the economy could lose $8 trillion in wealth without any serious fallout?
http://www.truth-out.org/the-public-...ion62358?print
Last edited by boutons_deux; 08-16-2010 at 04:08 PM.
Here's the Repugs going after the middle class and public employees as welfare queens, which is as bogus and dishonest as it was when St Ronnie the Patron Saint of Dumb used welfare queens in Cadillacs to go after poor people:
The GOP Continues to Smear the Middle Class — Next Up? Public Employees
"one aspect of the Republican war against government–it’s a war against the middle class jobs that government creates, as if the dollars that public employees contribute to the economy, including the payroll taxes they pay along with everyone else, aren’t equivalent to private sector dollars."
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/...aign=alternet#
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Not only is all-govt-bad-all-the-time (except with redistributing taxdollars to Repugs and their eg, MIC, owners) the Repug main whine, but the people who work for govt are also bad.
Repugs sure know how to run an election campaign and shrink their base down to the extreme unelecting fringe.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 08-17-2010 at 03:21 PM.
I guess Darrin didn't want to respond to my calling his bull out.Originally Posted by DarrinS
"High level of skill and education required for most federal jobs"
Still think that "goverment jobs" don't require greater than average skillsets?
I only laughed because I know a lot of govt employees. Sure, some have advanced degrees, but that usually doesn't mean a whole lot.
Fair enough.
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