Thursday, August 21, 2014

Taxes are up but your government is shrinking quickly

Article Title: Shrinking government: Federal hiring is down, departures are up

Snippet of Article: "...Federal hiring has declined rapidly in recent years, while the number of departures has increased nearly as fast. That’s a recipe for a shrinking government...."

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hacked 3 Times in 3 Years

Article Title: Hackers attack Nuclear Regulatory Commission 3 times in 3 years

Snippet of Article: "...This was followed by news that U.S. Investigation Services (USIS), the main provider of background checks to the U.S. government, had been targeted in an attack possibly launched by a foreign power...."

Source: www.foxnews.com

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

National Guard Troops Fail to Quell Unrest in Ferguson as Obama Coddles Looters and Neuters Guard and Law Enforcement

Article Title: National Guard Troops Fail to Quell Unrest in Ferguson

Snippet of Article: "... Obama said he had told Mr. Nixon in a phone call on Monday that the Guard should be “used in a limited and appropriate way.”..."

Source: Military Veteran News America becomes lawless

Monday, August 18, 2014

The FERS Annuity Supplement

Article Title: The FERS Annuity Supplement

Snippet of Article: "...The special retirement supplement is paid in addition to gross monthly Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) annuity benefits. It represents what you would receive for your FERS civilian service from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and is calculated as if you were eligible to receive SSA benefits on the day you retired. Eligibility ..."

Source: www.opm.gov

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Phased Retirement FAQ

Article Title: Phased Retirement: Answers to Some Common Questions

Snippet of Article: "...The Office of Personnel Management announced the long awaited final regulations for the phased retirement program for federal employees late last week. As part of that announcement, OPM has also released a document with answers to some common questions employees are likely to have about this program...."

Source: fedsmith.com Phased Retirement FAQ

Friday, August 8, 2014

Jim Hightower: A Postmaster General who has thrown-in with the privatizers. As PMG, Pat Donahoe...

OPINION: Jim Hightower is a former agriculture commissioner from the state of Texas.

Article Title: JIM HIGHTOWER: Postal Service is far from a loser

Snippet of Article: "...the media keeps reporting that the USPS is losing billions of dollars each year. What they fail to mention is that those are phony paper losses manufactured by Congress at the behest of corporate privatizers...."

Source: www.stwnewspress.com Postmaster General Donahoe, destruction of postal service, Jim Hightower, postal privatization,

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Why is the Postal Service helping UPS and Fedex? ...and doing it so cheaply???

Article Title: For FedEx and UPS, a Cheaper Route: the Post Office

Snippet of Article: "...the flood of these packages has begun to tax the system, and it has raised questions about whether the USPS is charging enough for its service. Even as UPS makes use of the USPS, a UPS executive on the company's earnings conference call last month questioned whether the Postal Service is unfairly cross-subsidizing certain products to offer lower prices. ..."

Source: wsj.com