![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
[from a lengthy Twitter thread I just posted]
Some of his statements to @sarahnferris, as reported on http://msn.com : "Who's living that they're not going to make it to the next paycheck?" he asked Politico reporter Sarah Ferris. "...The government's not immune to these things," he added.
First of all, I want to thank@Perry4Congress for at least recognizing that the government and Federal employees are not immune from harm caused by government shutdowns & furloughs such as @realDonaldTrump is causing - and specifically owning despite backtracking - over borders.
The madman and frequent absolver of Russia's and Saudi Arabia's crimes, the traitor who ascended to office with Putin's help (Yes, I am an#AntiTrumpActivist), is really screwing us over, and what he's potentially doing to Federal employees betrays their trust.
Defending his policies does not suit you well, and what you say about Federal workers does not add up. From http://msn.com : "A 2017 survey found that 78 percent of full-time workers live paycheck to paycheck [...] There was no differentiation for federal employees."
Let me be clearer and more personal: I worked for@DeptofDefense from 1979 to 2012. Over a decade and a half before I retired from the Agency that employed me, I changed career fields to better motivate myself. It was very effective in every way except pay.
Although I was ten times the worker I had been, I saw no "promotion" (grade-level pay raise) for the last twenty years of my Federal employment. And yes, that makes a difference now. I retired as Grade 13.
I watched sycophants and people who wanted to run the Agency like a business shoot up the career ladder. I heard frequent stories, and saw evidence, that kissing @$$ was the best way to advance. This was under many administrations, and both majority parties.
When I retired, my income dropped down from over $100K a year to $60K. I moved to Georgia for affordability reasons, to come back home, and so that my wife, who had been a Registered Nurse, could help take care of my mother, who passed away in 2014.
I had been told that making the career change that I did - despite it being the best work-related move I've ever made - would hurt me when "promotion time" came.
My last boss was competing against me for the same promotion. I had been reorganized yet again out of more meaningful work. She did not have to review my promotion folder, but she chose to give it a thumbs down before handing it up the chain.
She got that promotion. My improving my abilities as a government employee had failed to compensate me for it, and YES, MY FAMILY AND I NOW DO LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK, thankful for a few credit cards to help with that.
I know that if I were of a different race, or an immigrant, there is a high probability my plight would be made more difficult by that, under the current majority party and executive branch. But I also know that what you have said,@Perry4Congress, is inaccurate.
We have children with children of their own, struggling with student loans and other debt circumstances. My having been a Federal worker is not much help to them. And I don't think I am a particularly exceptional case.
Please try to see some of the viewpoints of why the current administration in Washington DC, and what the@GOP have let themselves become, are hurting us badly. Please don't misrepresent the plight of, I think, many Federal employees to show your loyalties to a corrupted party.
Pennsylvania Representative Scott Perry (@Perry4Congress) has talked to @politico about government employees and the threat of a furlough. Among the statements he made are ones expressing skepticism at Federal government employees living paycheck to paycheck. Let's talk.
First of all, I want to thank
The madman and frequent absolver of Russia's and Saudi Arabia's crimes, the traitor who ascended to office with Putin's help (Yes, I am an
Defending his policies does not suit you well, and what you say about Federal workers does not add up. From http://msn.com : "A 2017 survey found that 78 percent of full-time workers live paycheck to paycheck [...] There was no differentiation for federal employees."
Let me be clearer and more personal: I worked for
Although I was ten times the worker I had been, I saw no "promotion" (grade-level pay raise) for the last twenty years of my Federal employment. And yes, that makes a difference now. I retired as Grade 13.
I watched sycophants and people who wanted to run the Agency like a business shoot up the career ladder. I heard frequent stories, and saw evidence, that kissing @$$ was the best way to advance. This was under many administrations, and both majority parties.
When I retired, my income dropped down from over $100K a year to $60K. I moved to Georgia for affordability reasons, to come back home, and so that my wife, who had been a Registered Nurse, could help take care of my mother, who passed away in 2014.
I had been told that making the career change that I did - despite it being the best work-related move I've ever made - would hurt me when "promotion time" came.
My last boss was competing against me for the same promotion. I had been reorganized yet again out of more meaningful work. She did not have to review my promotion folder, but she chose to give it a thumbs down before handing it up the chain.
She got that promotion. My improving my abilities as a government employee had failed to compensate me for it, and YES, MY FAMILY AND I NOW DO LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK, thankful for a few credit cards to help with that.
I know that if I were of a different race, or an immigrant, there is a high probability my plight would be made more difficult by that, under the current majority party and executive branch. But I also know that what you have said,
We have children with children of their own, struggling with student loans and other debt circumstances. My having been a Federal worker is not much help to them. And I don't think I am a particularly exceptional case.
Please try to see some of the viewpoints of why the current administration in Washington DC, and what the
