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By: Government employees underworked, overpaid | Homeland Stupidity

Government employees underworked, overpaid | Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:38:29 +0000

[...] federal management.”We should all appreciate what government bureaucrats do for us — or do to us. Without them, we might actually have to live like free people and take responsibility for our own [...]

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:55:25 +0000

There’s no way you could possibly know me and still have to ask such a question. You should read some of the more recent postings, especially if your schedule doesn’t permit you to make the relatively short trip to meet me in person.

At least it’s good that you don’t trust the government. But please don’t accuse me of being one of them. That’s extremely offensive.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:36:23 +0000

How do we know this website is not authored by the government collecting valuable information and computer addresses. It has never been so easy to post a comment.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:00:19 +0000

I might have enjoyed going to America – some of the loveliest people in the whole world live there, & I’d like to pay a few of them a visit – but no way in hell do I set foot in a nation whose government uses the Magna Carta for toilet paper.

I think, therefore I’m exiled.

In other words, one less visitor/tourist, & that much less money in your economy.
Now, multiply me by many millions.

By: Jon Argust

Jon Argust — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:41:10 +0000

I retired at age 48 from the US Postal Service. I was a Postmaster and Postmasters with 25 years or more were offered an early out. Having devoted half my life to the USPS, and not wanting to spend the rest of it fighting a losing battle(more and more work and less and less help- I called it being on the Titanic with a bucket…)I retired. After some time off I applied to the Transportation Stupidity Administration as a screener at Albany NY International Airport. After completely filling out the copious amounts of required paperwork, and submitting to an extensive three month background check I was hired. I completed a two week training session and then worked for 2 days at the checkpoint. The morning of the third day the phone rings, it was the HR guy calling to tell me not to report back to work. It seems that because I was a retired postal worker collecting my monthly retirement, I could not work at TSA.( I found that out on my own later- he admitted at the time that he did’nt know why I could’nt work there) And, oh, we also cannot pay you for your 2 weeks of training and 8 hours of work- you basically worked for free, and oh yeah, just give us a letter of resignation. I asked him if he or any of his bosses in Washington worked for free, he said no. I said that since they screwed up and should have seen this when I first applied but didnt,that they should have not hired me, I said therefore why cant you write me a check out of Albany’s budget. No. They hounded me for 2 months for a letter of resignation, I said when I get paid, you’ll get a letter. I did eventually get paid- $240. for 91 hours work after I wrote my Congressman. He got a response from TSA which basically blamed the whole thing on me.
My wife is also employed by TSA and is currently fighting to keep her job. They are so totally inept it is mind boggling. I could write a book about the mismanagement, cronyism and the bureaucratic power hungry ex law enforcement people who run TSA in Albany. They look the other way when certain people let the test bombs go through the checkpoint, but will terminate someone at the drop of a hat because their xray scores are low. Why are their scores low? Because the supervisors do not follow the schedule and let their buddies get all the exray time. TSA management’s answer to correcting their screw ups is to demand a letter of resignation. Its an atmosphere of managerial incompetence that is fueled by a supply of basically good employees who think they are getting a half way decent “government job”. Sorry if I rambled- I could go on for hours.

By: bubba

bubba — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:52:42 +0000

For Bruce…Thought and the your life in the hereafter.

They seem to be scheeming to find a way to get their hands on those as well.
I would love to give my story about my ridiculous run in with our less than human law enfarcement officials, but it makes my blood boil to even think about it and I am afraid that only helps their agenda. I will comment on it at some point though.
I have come to realise in my older years that sometimes things have to get really, really, really bad before they can get better or before the situation implodes in on itself, like WTC 1 & 2, and causes a drastic change. No one seems to be able to recall just how bad the SS was in Germany during Adolph George W. Hitlers’ rule. It was put up with back then much like it is today. At some point, people will get fed up with a society that let’s an uneducated, lower class jackass put a pistol on his hip and all of a sudden have all the authority of God almighty. You are an enemy of anything that goes against HIS (or her) belief, even if that belief might be somewhat skewed.
In regard to 911, we have now killed more of them than they killed of us. Mr. Bush, you keep mentioning GOD in your agenda and how he keeps telling you to “kill all those turrurists, Georgie”. Well, let me ask you something there Georgia Boy. Has GOD ever told ya to just “forgive and forget? It would end all this mess in a matter of seconds.
We need to have a national”be legal day”. Every citizen goes out of their way to not do anything illegal…no speeding, no killing, no raping, no taking stamps of of envelopes…no nothing!!! It would absolutely drive the cops mad!!! Maybe that is a good way to drive them out of business.
We are on the cusp of a major change. I welcome it.

By: Bruce Qualey

Bruce Qualey — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:35:23 +0000

Please name me two things that are not Licensed, Regulated or Taxed?

By: John K. Riggs

John K. Riggs — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:04:37 +0000

Elements of My goverment killed My favorite president and took away My trust in this nation. JFK was priveleged but he was a patriot and a war hero,not a chicken-hockey like dubya. I believe the goons in power now arranged it all. GHWB cannot remember his whereabouts on that fateful day,isnt that the stupidest thing you ever heard? These murderers will face judgement,whether here on earth or in the hereafter,innocent blood is crying out from Central America to Kabul. I want to be there on that glorious day when justice prevails.

By: moxie

moxie — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:12:59 +0000

As more and more of us wake up from our institutionalized sleep and realize just how serious the situation is, individuals and groups need to unite so we may collectively stand up against the powers that be. right now we are not working together enmasse. any potential leaders?

By: hank

hank — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:03:03 +0000

child support laws took my life,, no passport,, no drivers lic,, no job,, but ever incresing child support debt,, go figure,, slave in amerikia+++… debeters prision big time,, any body got 50K so i can buy my freedom”’

By: bubba

bubba — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:31:39 +0000

This entire country is out of control. It is all about the money in every situation. The only way to beat the crooks is to beat them at their own game. Stop giving them YOUR money and take THEIR power from them. Educate yourself. If you keep waiting for someone to come and hold your hand and protect you and educate you, then you are no better off than the crack whore having babies because she gets more money from the guvment. Accept nothing from the government..no s.s., no welfare, no medicade, no foodstamps…nothing. Become self sufficient and stand up for your god given rights or die. Take a look at and find out the truth about taxes and YOUR legal RIGHTS as a human being. Be free or die trying. Take as many freedom bashers as you can with you if you must.

By: Rage-ness

Rage-ness — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:56:40 +0000

The general nonsense that goes along with being poor has made my childhood especially interesting. It’s amazing how hard it is for a father and his daughter to get assistance(read: just because he’s male, not female) We were treated like dirt by social services. They look at us like we’re scum that is just trying to leech off the system, while I would watch immigrants drive away from their office in brand new cars. They wouldn’t even give us gas vouchers for my dad to look for work. When we finally became homeless because 600$ a month doesn’t do shit for two people to survive off of, My dad asked them what we’re supposed to do to eat. Their solution was to “build a fire to cook over.” I swear to god, I’m not making this up. I sat in the welfare office with a lady while she suggested this to me and my father. The problem is they give the honest people just enough money to keep them in a hole, but not enough to get out of it. But if you just want to cheat, well then, they seem to thing you’re just a poor soul who needs some help..
Like my mother, who kept having children to stay on welfare, and has never worked more than a couple months in her adult life. But alas, everyone knows how fucked up the welfare system is nowadays, what with it being privatized more and more.. And that was in Minnesota, where it’s not actually that bad. Try going to Texas.

Oh, and not to forget California’s insane policy on custody battles.. my mother has been clinically insane since I was very young, and yet they made my father go through a lengthly (over a year) and costly (over 30k!) custody battle to get me, when the woman was clearly nuts! She insisted that she was actually the Queen of England, and that she owned the whole county, and that everyone ought to stop the sham, and give her land back. ??!?! Does anyone else see something wrong with this…? >_

By: Gotta Be Kidding

Gotta Be Kidding — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:56:53 +0000

Some of you make interesting points. Others sound like downright lunatics (and you wonder why nobody every takes you seriously). If you really wanted people to listen to what you had to say, why would you use the handle “JohnWilkesBooth?” If you want to be taken seriously, then become serious, and stop making fools of yourselves. BTW, not many citizens read pages like this. You have to get a better forum. And at least sound credible.

By: No bad cops

No bad cops — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:15:32 +0000

We need less crooked cops and we have to do our best to prevent crime. They need to do a better job. I agree. All things are possible. Get the good ones in and out with the bad!!!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:21:39 +0000

I can simply add that the government violates the right`s of every tax-payer by trying to get more money out of the hard working men instead of attempting to shorten the expenses. Instead of looking at the expenses they always try to get more out of the working people. The paradoxon is that the tax payers don’t do anything to avoid the government from exploiting them, even though almost everyone is affected by tax increases. I cannot understand that at all.