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Anonymous wrote:Fine. I have a PhD in STEM, I will go to private industry and make 4x more money.

Good luck

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people don't bother to read the FAR and it shows. Contractors cannot be used for the performance of inherently governmental functions - i.e. they cannot be the ones directing, leading - they always report to a government manager. They are given a task and they complete the task - that's it. There are limitations for a reason.

Anonymous wrote:Fine. I have a PhD in STEM, I will go to private industry and make 4x more money.

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Anonymous wrote:Also the USG can save a lot of money by lowering the pay for federal workers once they are allowed to relocate out of the expensive DC metro area.

Let them telework from wherever they want to live and the USG can also reduce their salaries to account for the lower cost of living.

It's a win-win.

Or fire them and replace them with contractors who won’t have the same benefits. That way they can upscale or downscale the workforce as jobs become more and more automated.

Seems like a win win for the American taxpayer.

They already did this.

The result was a ballooning in the day to day operation of the federal government because the actual work of the government was outsourced to the big consulting firms and beltway bandits, rather than just paying salary and pension to federal workers. Many of those feds simply went from the government to become SME's at the consulting firms and 5x'd their salary and benefits and the taxpayers are covering those costs.

The federal wrokforce in DC is basically barebones because it is just people putting out RFPs for the contractors and subcontractors. Other than DOD, the largest employers are the various park rangers across the country and the postal service.

THIS! Do you know how much people at Deloitte etc make???

Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait to love out of the DC area to a lower cost of living area, and happy to take the pay cut when I do. However, the timing is not right on that since I have teens and the last thing they need or want right now is that kind of upheaval.

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Anonymous wrote:Also the USG can save a lot of money by lowering the pay for federal workers once they are allowed to relocate out of the expensive DC metro area.

Let them telework from wherever they want to live and the USG can also reduce their salaries to account for the lower cost of living.

It's a win-win.

Or fire them and replace them with contractors who won’t have the same benefits. That way they can upscale or downscale the workforce as jobs become more and more automated.

Seems like a win win for the American taxpayer.

They already did this.

The result was a ballooning in the day to day operation of the federal government because the actual work of the government was outsourced to the big consulting firms and beltway bandits, rather than just paying salary and pension to federal workers. Many of those feds simply went from the government to become SME's at the consulting firms and 5x'd their salary and benefits and the taxpayers are covering those costs.

The federal wrokforce in DC is basically barebones because it is just people putting out RFPs for the contractors and subcontractors. Other than DOD, the largest employers are the various park rangers across the country and the postal service.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump also wants to axe senior feds with years of subject matter expertise and replace them with unqualified, inexperienced hacks and political cronies who are loyalists.

This is what I'm more worried about. And having a political crony supervise me who doesn't know what they are doing.

This is going to be beautiful.

If you aren’t a 14 year old troll, I feel so bad for you. Imagine being such a loser that the thought of someone’s misfortune makes you so giddy. And the impact it will have on everyone and I mean everyone’s life. But like a PP said-at least you would have owned the libs in the process. Every industry in this area relies on the fed govt. Including and especially tech.

People do not understand that this will affect them too. If you have no regulations you better have a perfect health because your medicine isn’t going to be safe. You better grow your own food, because food won’t be safe, etc.

Ultimately things will work out. Out bloated government needs a purge. Our society needs a wake up call that they are on their own.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump also wants to axe senior feds with years of subject matter expertise and replace them with unqualified, inexperienced hacks and political cronies who are loyalists.

This is what I'm more worried about. And having a political crony supervise me who doesn't know what they are doing.

This is going to be beautiful.

If you aren’t a 14 year old troll, I feel so bad for you. Imagine being such a loser that the thought of someone’s misfortune makes you so giddy. And the impact it will have on everyone and I mean everyone’s life. But like a PP said-at least you would have owned the libs in the process. Every industry in this area relies on the fed govt. Including and especially tech.

People do not understand that this will affect them too. If you have no regulations you better have a perfect health because your medicine isn’t going to be safe. You better grow your own food, because food won’t be safe, etc.

They don't care. They'll only start to care when no one answers the calls, the social security and IRS refund checks don't get processed, the construction projects and other procurements for every agency get delayed. How long do you think it'll take the new feds to be hired as well as figure out how to do things?

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Anonymous wrote:Housing costs will be human again!

This! DC will become affordable again.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump also wants to axe senior feds with years of subject matter expertise and replace them with unqualified, inexperienced hacks and political cronies who are loyalists.

This is what I'm more worried about. And having a political crony supervise me who doesn't know what they are doing.

This is going to be beautiful.

If you aren’t a 14 year old troll, I feel so bad for you. Imagine being such a loser that the thought of someone’s misfortune makes you so giddy. And the impact it will have on everyone and I mean everyone’s life. But like a PP said-at least you would have owned the libs in the process. Every industry in this area relies on the fed govt. Including and especially tech.

People do not understand that this will affect them too. If you have no regulations you better have a perfect health because your medicine isn’t going to be safe. You better grow your own food, because food won’t be safe, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump also wants to axe senior feds with years of subject matter expertise and replace them with unqualified, inexperienced hacks and political cronies who are loyalists.

This is what I'm more worried about. And having a political crony supervise me who doesn't know what they are doing.

This is going to be beautiful.

If you aren’t a 14 year old troll, I feel so bad for you. Imagine being such a loser that the thought of someone’s misfortune makes you so giddy. And the impact it will have on everyone and I mean everyone’s life. But like a PP said-at least you would have owned the libs in the process. Every industry in this area relies on the fed govt. Including and especially tech.

People do not understand that this will affect them too. If you have no regulations you better have a perfect health because your medicine isn’t going to be safe. You better grow your own food, because food won’t be safe, etc.