Saturday - September 08, 2012

I Thought Reagan Broke Up This Union?

Two federal agency supervisors allegedly warned employees earlier this year that a Republican takeover in Washington could threaten their jobs—comments that some workers apparently took as guidance on “how to vote” and that one group claims may have violated federal law.

Nonprofit watchdog Cause of Action wrote a letter Wednesday asking the Department of Transportation’s inspector general to launch a probe into the incident, involving senior officials with the Federal Aviation Administration. The incident occurred in May during a meeting at the FAA’s Seattle office, according to the letter.

Emails obtained by FoxNews.com show one FAA employee recalling what John Hickey, deputy associate administrator for aviation safety, said at the meeting.

“I would not be able to quote Mr. Hickey (sic) exact words but what I took out of it was, if the conservative (Republicans) gain control of congress then the FAA could be looking (at) as much as a 15% cut in budget and we (may) be looking at furloughs. If the liberal Democrats take control of congress then we would be looking at a flat budget,” the email said. “In short if the Republicans win office our jobs may be (affected) ... if the Democrats win office then our jobs would not be (affected).”

The recipient of that email then relayed the account, and others, to apparent higher-ups at the FAA. He said, “there seems to be some energy within the office as a reaction to Mr. Hickey’s, inappropriate at best, comments and more than a few employees took umbrage that a person in such an elevated position in the agency would make those remarks.

“My understanding is that more than one employee’s perception was that Mr. Hickey was essentially telling them how to vote if they wanted to keep their job,” he wrote.

An FAA spokesman said in a statement Wednesday that the agency would cooperate with any review.

“The FAA takes Hatch Act violation allegations very seriously and will cooperate fully with any review of the allegations,” the spokesman said.

Dan Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action, called the alleged incident an “egregious abuse of power for political gain.”

“These career employees were led to believe their jobs were at risk if their political support did not line up with the agenda of the administration,” he said.

Fear tactics are as old as the Democrats. Every election, always. We always hear the same nonsense. Oh, those evil Rethuglicans are gonna starve the old folks, take all their medicine, and leave granny by the side of the lonely road to die! And then they’ll close all the schools and torture the non-white children! And then they’ll bring back slavery! And make abortion illegal!!!!!

What a load of crap. But some IDIOT let unions into government some time ago, and this kind of thing is classic union behavior. Thug-ism. Vote dis way or da union sez you’ll lose ya job. 

Governments, like unions, are a kind of parasitic life form. Both need to be weeded back severely on a regular basis, like kudzu and vinca.

I know ... let’s gather a really useful statistic. Let’s find the total number of Democrats and Republicans and Others working for government, from the very top on down. I’ll bet you a bag of carrots and a tube of caulk that the D’s are at least 65% of the total, if not 75 or even 80%. Sure, go ahead and break it down by department. You’ll probably find a lot more R’s in the military, and perhaps one or two other agencies. But overall? The rank and file and their immediate 4 levels of bosses? She-it. Let’s also include state and local government in the tallies so you can get the millions of teachers and social workers, and I bet the overall statistic is 78% D. And that’s why the country if F’ed up.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/08/2012 at 08:58 AM   
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