At the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), red tape is preventing the removal of a top level employee accused of viewing porn two to six hours a day while at work, since 2010. Even though investigators found 7,000 pornographic files on his computer and even caught him watching porn, he remains on the payroll.
Five years ago, the General Services Administration (GSA) spent more than $800,000 on a lavish conference in Las Vegas. They were served 1,000 sushi rolls costing $7 each and a clown and mind reader were hired for entertainment. Two managers were initially fired but got their jobs back after the MSPB reversed the decision.
The GSA was ordered to “cancel the appellants removals” and give them back pay plus interest. Meanwhile, the organizer of the convention was never technically fired. He was allowed to retire.
From the CBS News article: Red Tape Keeps Some Bad Gov’t Workers From Being Fired
It was just brought to my attention that prosecutors in the General David Petraeus case are suggesting two years probation and a $40,000 fine, rather than the one-year prison sentence his misdemeanor charge carries. If it were you or I, and the government didn’t like our political activities, the feds would undoubtably try to put us in a cage for as long as possible. Must be nice to be an oligarch. After all, insiders don’t jail other insiders. This is not a free country.
It’s not just Petraeus and other oligarchs either. Status quo minions often also receive special treatment for their tireless service to the plutocracy. You know, such as watching six hours per day of porn on the job.
We learn from CBS News that:
In the private sector, if you’re caught viewing porn on company time or intimidating a co-worker, you’d probably be fired immediately; not so if you’re a federal employee.
A CBS News investigation looks at how hard it is for the U.S. government to discipline or fire employees who behave badly. With examples ranging from extravagant to explicit, civil service rules meant to protect public workers from political pressure may be backfiring, and costing you big, reports CBS News correspondent Don Dahler.
At the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), red tape is preventing the removal of a top level employee accused of viewing porn two to six hours a day while at work, since 2010. Even though investigators found 7,000 pornographic files on his computer and even caught him watching porn, he remains on the payroll.
At a Congressional hearing, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy was asked why she hadn’t fired the employee and said, “I actually have to work through the administrative process, as you know.”
He said those rules make it nearly impossible to fire poor performers or problematic employees, even when they’ve committed egregious violations.
A CBS News analysis of cases under review by the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB), an appeals board for federal workers, found other instances of employees who had committed seemingly fireable offenses who were later reinstated to their jobs, often with back pay and interest.
Five years ago, the General Services Administration (GSA) spent more than $800,000 on a lavish conference in Las Vegas. They were served 1,000 sushi rolls costing $7 each and a clown and mind reader were hired for entertainment. Two managers were initially fired but got their jobs back after the MSPB reversed the decision.
The GSA was ordered to “cancel the appellants removals” and give them back pay plus interest. Meanwhile, the organizer of the convention was never technically fired. He was allowed to retire.
Taking into consider administrative leave and the general costs of the procedure itself, Stier said, “There is no question that taxpayers are losing hundreds of millions of dollars, in a conservative estimate. They are losing more than that because they are losing the ability to get the very best out of government.”
Public service indeed.
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Lets get this straight. The civil servant works for the remnants of the old CIA mind control program. He is just performing his job. They hide under state secrets privilege and get away with this. Here goes my soapbox. We need laws that will stop over sixty-five years of the abusive application of the state secrets privilege and related doctrine, act, regulation, executive order, administrative action and related policy abuses.
No more laws, no more pretending we are under the rule of law, no more self delusion that there is any kind of political solution to this fucked up circus. De-centralize the whole thing starting with you and I. Get a head start before the whole house of cards comes a tumbling down. I’m sorry to say it but its time to reap what we have sewn and its going to hurt as it should.
Neither do the underlings get prostitute breaks like their political bosses. It’s not fair, and is work discrimination.
We are lucky. We are not getting all the government we pay for thank goodness.
We would be much better off if ALL the bureaucrats spent 8 hours a day viewing porn and playing games instead of writing idiotic things like the new Dietary Guidelines aka the FOOD Gestapo.
It recommends:
1. taxes on dessert
2. trained obesity “interventionists” at schools and worksites,
3. electronic monitoring of how long Americans sit in front of the television or computer.
4. Incorporating consideration of the guidelines in all branches of government. (Banning or taxing cows, sheep,goats and pigs?)
4. Medical personnel are already data mining your shopping habits to flag ‘unhealthy’ habits thanks to Obamacare.
And do not forget the new international Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The paper: A CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF ANTI-GOVERNMENT PHOBIA by Ivor E. Tower, M.D. Should give any thinking person pause. Will your reading material soon be used to determine if medical intervention is necessary?
The report is open for public comment for 45 days:
http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2015/comments/
The Chairman of the committee gives away this is driven by Agenda 21 aka Sustainability.
QUOTE
“After 30 years of waiting, the fact that this committee is addressing sustainability issues brings me a lot of pleasure,” she began. Clancy went on to advocate that Americans should become vegetarians in order to achieve sustainability in the face of “climate change.”
“What pattern of eating best contributes to food security and the sustainability of land air and water?” Clancy asked. “The simple answer is a plant-based diet.”…
http://weaselzippers.us/179187-meet-the-radicals-creating-the-new-federal-dietary-guidelines/
UNQUOTE
Links to my comments with loads of other links:
Dietary guide lines start here:
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/ministry-of-truth-hard-at-work/#comment-494081
International Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders start here:
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/there-is-high-confidence-that-the-ipcc-is-both-corrupt-and-incompetent/#comment-495126
To those at this site please spread the word that we really need to comment on the Dietary Guidelines.
As Blondie said at http://wmbriggs.com/post/15374/
The “dietary guidelines” report runs well over 500 pages and there trap doors and cracks on every page that will let the government into every facet of your life. Unhand those cheezy bits. Step away from the television….
What the Dietary Guidelines do not do, Smart Meters will BTW. Duke Energy is deploying them with lots of propaganda through several states.
Richard North in the UK tells us what the goal is:
Energy: “big brother” technology
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=83847
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=83851
Again my comment on Duke Energy with lots of links:
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/ams-fires-back-against-the-obama-led-witch-hunt/#comment-496448
The benefits of a union.
Together they are strong.
That is why White people are not allowed to organize in a racial group. Together they are strong.