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Your Taxes Paid Thousands Of Government Staff Covid Unemployment While They Worked From Home
Federalist ^ | JANUARY 30, 2023 | JORDAN BOYD

Posted on 01/31/2023 5:42:25 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Brian Griffin

If that’s so, their lack of production—or the lack of a need to have their job filled—should show out pretty quickly.


21 posted on 01/31/2023 6:54:26 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: spincaster

It would in sum be a good thing for the country if government employee pensions were washed out.


22 posted on 01/31/2023 6:55:11 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Red Badger

The new congress should propose a MANDATORY MINIMUM 20 YEARS in jail for any government fraud (including vote fraud), with a one-year amnesty period (with or without mandatory restitution - can can go either way on that because knowing it and preventing it is the main goal) and then a 10% reward for anyone who turns in evidence of fraud.

And to fix the budget? Any department that decreases their spending get so keep half as a bonus to be distributed, but that becomes their new budget. I bet in year 1 we get a huge decrease. This eliminates ‘spend it or lose it’ mentality.


23 posted on 01/31/2023 6:56:29 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: wbslws

Most gov’t agencies have about 1-2 % of the staff that actually does the work and breaks their backsides to support the rest of the workers who are essentially dead wood.

Ask me how I know.


24 posted on 01/31/2023 7:05:04 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Red Badger

And the felony indictments????


25 posted on 01/31/2023 7:07:52 AM PST by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: wbslws
Most government employees are lazy and don’t want to do anything. I had to deal with government entities for over 30 years and most are just there in body only. Their favorite response is “Its not my job” and if you ask them who can help you, they say they don’t know who to send you to. If I did that in my job I would have been fired immediately.

Government, unions, bureaucracies in general... home turf for those who are expert at knowing all that they *don't* have to do, what's not in the contract.

The helpful, useful ones are those who are *in* the system, but are not *of* the system.

I suspect that any productivity within comes from those who are not of the system, while those who are will scramble to mug for the limelight in order to take credit. Not like they have anything better to do,

otherwise everyone could see that 10% is doing 100% of the work.

26 posted on 01/31/2023 7:18:38 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: unixfox

I believe the term “government worker” is an oxymoron.


27 posted on 01/31/2023 7:28:50 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

LOL!!!


28 posted on 01/31/2023 7:36:54 AM PST by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: 9YearLurker
What does working from home have to do with responding to a crisis that your own agency created?

Because within the Federal government and other levels of government, work from home means no effective collaboration. And no effective collaboration in a crisis.

Work from home can work in the private sector for some occupations. Because you are monitored and must produce. Not so in the Neo-Feudal Federal government. With some exceptions, of course.

29 posted on 01/31/2023 8:16:34 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: Brian Griffin; Red Badger; Liz; SunkenCiv
They didn't work, but got paid.

No, it was worse.
They didn't work (at either nor office), but got paid for both home and office.

Yet the fed's can't seem to track down these tens of millions - while demanding EVERY deposit over 600.00 be reported to the IRS!

30 posted on 01/31/2023 8:23:48 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: dennisw

If they aren’t monitored (to the level of private sector professionals, who work and collaborate fine from home), eliminate their positions!


31 posted on 01/31/2023 8:27:10 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Mr. K

“...then a 10% reward for anyone who turns in evidence of fraud.”

This clause would be “overworked” by the lazies! I like it! Rats will inform on each other to survive.


32 posted on 01/31/2023 8:41:05 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SgtHooper

In retro, let’s bump the reward to 50% to get some action right away!!


33 posted on 01/31/2023 8:42:04 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: grobdriver

Most employers report employee wages to the unemployment agencies on a quarterly basis. The unemployment agencies then look back, comparing wages report to unemployment paid.

Unfortunately, the Federal government doesn’t report Federal wages to the unemployment agencies. They only supply wages upon by individual request when an unemployment claim is filed. It’s up to the Feds to catch the cheaters by comparing quarterly charges from the unemployment agencies to their personnel records.

If one of the cheaters works in the personnel office, the scammer is not caught.


34 posted on 01/31/2023 10:59:14 AM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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