A post by Pat
Are you toiling away in the inferior world of private industry? Are you tormented by the sense there is professional greatness locked inside you? Alas, Obama brings hope. A reversal from the Bush policy of outsourcing government work has begun. For a start, tax collecting will be done by unionized government employees, not private collection agencies. As Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said,
…no one can perform the work of the federal government better than federal employees.
Well, the unions sure know how to collect a debt, don’t they?
You see, there is something magical about reaching the lofty heights of government employee status that unlocks one’s stifled potential. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman decided not to renew contracts with private collection firms, concluding after a month long review that tax collection could best be done by government workers. He expects to hire more than 1,000 collectors this year, encouraging workers from private collection agencies to apply. Hmmm. [scratching head]
IRS dumps private debt collectors, shifts pendulum
IRS contracts with private debt collection agencies to go after delinquent taxpayers expired Friday. In deciding not to renew them, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said he concluded after a monthlong review that tax collection could best be done by government workers.
Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said the decision to end the program “reaffirms” that “no one can perform the work of the federal government better than federal employees.”
Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University, said he expects the Obama administration to de-emphasize the use of private contractors for government work. But, he said, that probably means hiring more government workers, which comes with the political baggage of enlarging the federal government.
“If you aren’t going to contract out services, how are you going to provide them?” Light asked. “I’m fairly certain there will be an increase in the number of federal government workers.” [I'm 100% certain. --- pat]At the IRS, Schulman said he expects to hire more than 1,000 workers this year to increase collections. He encouraged workers from private collection agencies to apply.
If you think your profession is not in the shadow of government’s tentacles, it will be unless we stop the Obama Express to collectivized hell.
“You see, there is something magical about reaching the lofty heights of government employee status that unlocks one’s stifled potential.” This potential will leak out in arrogance.
Each time I think of the blindly powered bureaucrats I think of the IRS and second lieutenants with clipboards.
But there are some federal positions that will come this way from both IRS and the Census.
Inevitably the mind-sets geared for this power are found in the ranks of organizations such as…ACORN. Maybe La Raza, CAIR,…
#Casting no aspersions on former 2nd Lts. They eventually grow out of it.
I’m thinking that this could be a good thing. We all know that the more employees a government agency has, the less they accomplish. Moreover, this presents an opening for agents of the underground to sabotage the system from within.
(Not that I would encourage such things.)
40% or more of our patients have Medicaid or Medicare, bad enough already. What is coming makes me sick to my stomach. Somebody, please call a Dr!
I will spare you the details of what my friend, who just started working for The Department of Homeland Security experienced with the wonderful federal government employees in payroll. Let’s just say that my friend encountered a level of incompetency that would have gotten anyone fired in the private sector. WE ARE IN TROUBLE!!
And the big news is: “There are jobs in the public sector.”
So the country will borrow foreign money for government salaries from a country that has about 5 to 8 years of economic life left in it (China) who will, in turn, have to finance through what other place in the world where cash is found?
The Gulf.
Or how’s this? A consortium of OPEC.