Other whistleblower stories highlight even more areas of unsustainable and exorbitant partisan RDC/EX/SES-level corporate political appointee management abuse and waste. They include the Lawrence Prete (DOE) Story, describing how the Department of Energy (DOE) also replaced its professional electrical engineers with unqualified people. Other stories have been told by scientists, Securities and Exchange Commission investigators, contract specialists, the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA.
The Bottom Line
The optimum scenario to drastically cut the national debt--and now!--is to work with President Obama and his administration to implement his
promised 2008 government reforms for an "open, transparent, and accountable
government." If the national debt is to be drastically cut, that "openness" would have to include as vital resources both unions and whistleblowers.
Why? Both of these entities have a
vested interest, and the necessary knowledge, to identify and address the
government's politically-induced deficiencies that precipitated the spike in
the national debt, the blatant management abuses, and the weakened government-management infrastructures; they would also be drivers to eliminate all valueless corporate-driven (i.e. FMC-related) grants and contracts
For unions, the best way to
protect its employees (and the American people) is by working with the Obama
administration to oversee and enforce OPM position standards that are on a
par with those in the private sector. Such an upgrading would ensure that the government hires the highest-credentialed managers it can to mentor their employees, rather than abuse and fire them.
As to whistleblowers... they know first-hand the government reforms that are needed to restore our Founding Fathers' checks and balances. They also know how to cut the trillions of dollars still wasted on the government's politically astute and technically unqualified managers, and their valueless, politically-inspired grants and contracts.
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