Posted on 12/06/2010 7:59:25 AM PST by Poundstone
WASHINGTON — Iyauta Moore may be many things — a single mother raised by a single mother in the South Bronx, a 34-year-old woman with a master’s degree in public administration from American University, a top-level government employee who makes a little over $100,000 a year — but she bristles at the notion that she is just another overpaid, underworked, cosseted bureaucrat.
“What I do here involves creating something that doesn’t exist,” she said of her job at the Department of Education, where she is establishing a group to help oversee all of the department’s grants. “That’s not pushing paper.”
Ms. Moore, who is a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, added: “We’re out and we’re making a difference in the community. And I don’t really think you can put a dollar figure on that.”
But as politicians intent on cutting the federal budget try to do just that, career government employees are feeling besieged.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
By the way, I realize plenty of my fellow FReepers will disagree — but I’m heartened by how many FReepers feel the same way I do.
“What I do here involves creating something that doesn’t exist,” she said of her job at the Department of Education, where she is establishing a group to help oversee all of the department’s grants. “That’s not pushing paper.”
Yes it is.
I usually agree with you but not in the case of MPA’s who work for the Dept of Ed.
How about an article like this: “For Hard-Working Taxpayers, a Feeling of being Targets in the Budget Wars”...?
I-yaut-a affirmative action hire, no doubt...
You remind me of a former member here who loved trains.
Wah...in our municipal gov’t city employees took 3 percent pay cuts in addition to pay freezes. Why should workers at the federal level be exempt from what other gov’t workers are having to endure?
P.S. That woman’s photo smacks of entitlement...what an arrogant look and demeanor.
Hey Federal Employees:
Welcome to the REAL WORLD where we in the private sector have spent our entire LIVES Being Targets in the Budget Wars for companies that must sink or swim in order to survive.
My father is a Federal Employee and I tell him this fact daily.
yeah not a great way to begin an article that tries to make the case for federal employees.
Do you believe the federal gov’t is too big, has too many employees and has too much power? If not, why are you on this site?
The affirmative action federal hires are in force from the very top down...
The job she describes is the epitome of pushing paper.
Of course it. If her job was eliminated, it would effect no one. It would have no consequence on my life. In fact, if whatever laws that make her her job necessary were repealed, we’d all be better off!
You’d be surprised how many federal employees are hardcore conservatives!
I have never seen the word “cosseted” used in a news article before.
Wow. Think of all the folks who are going to be running to their dictionaries!
True, but not for the reason she "thinks". The epitome of a non-producer.
Yep, I’m sure their are tens of thousands of unemployed workers out there who could do her job far better than she does/can. I have zero patience for whining from Gov’t workers.
You didn’t answer my question.
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