One one page, Joe Davidson writes,
[Congressman Paul Ryan] viewed federal employees as a privileged class.
On the facing page, Lisa Rein writes,
A year after auditors documented tens of thousands of federal workers on paid leave for at least a month and longer stretches that exceed a year, close to 100 Department of Homeland Security employees still are being paid not to work for more than a year.
The large number persists even after the Obama administration urged agencies in June to curtail their reliance on what is known as administrative leave, the government’s go-to strategy for dealing with employees facing allegations of misconduct.
While employees stay home, they not only collect paychecks but also build their pensions, vacation and sick days and move up the federal pay scale.
No comment.
I’d like to see a government shutdown where Federal employees do not get paid. That might put more pressure on the party of eternal and expansive government. Right now it’s a paid vacation for nonessential employees.
Then it would never happen. You can’t hold someone hostage by putting a gun to your own head.
It seems to work for the Palestinians.
No. Not really. Attacks bring attention, but they aren’t what motivates action.
The Palestinians have a delicate dance. Not enough attacks and the world forgets they are brutally oppressed. Too many and they are viewed as oppressors. Not to mention their adversary is the world’s favorite victim class.
Of interest to me is why the Post even publishes fiascos like the paid leave story.
Presumably the Post’s audience is largely government workers, and I would think they wouldn’t want to read about yet another scandal in the federal employee system.
Of course, the Post surely has at least some data on this. Maybe those stories do get a lot of readers.
It’s probably useful ammo for bureaucratic turf battles. Agency A is fighting Agency B for jurisdiction over Program C; any scandals, then, at Agency B are helpful for Agency A to know about when they make their case to a congressional committee or some cabinet secretary.
Or it is dissemination of best practices.
It is the DHS, which isn’t really a gov’t agency like HUD or HHS is. HUD is protected, despite the evidence that millions are handed out by HUD every year and not tracked, according to recent report by Daily Caller. No way WaPo would write the same story about EPA.