Squeeze IRS employees, make it harder for them to collaborate

[CreekDog]

furlough them, etc.

do whatever it takes to squeeze every nickel out of their compensation and/or support expenses.

do whatever you can.

it will work. you will save money on those things, and as a bonus, there's one guarantee:

the best staff there will be far easier to entice to the corporate side to help them learn how to get around the the regulations and requirements those employees' agencies created and worked on while they were there.

so go ahead. this is not to encourage wasting money, but to those who would deny training, conferences and the like, i encourage you to support making it as hard for those people are you possibly can.

the best ones will eventually get beleaguered, throw up their hands and go to private industry to work against your interests.

if you sap their morale enough, everyone has their breaking point.

so go ahead. make them seem greedy for simply wanting a collaborative training. make that seem wrong.

(no, I don't condone luxuries, but meetings and trainings for consistency and other things as long as they are a small part of the budget and within government requirements are reasonable. but what some are saying about denying conferences, travel, collaborative meetings, etc. altogether, is going to cost you more than you save --ultimately)

[annabanana]

1. They are no better or worse than thousands of beleaguered civil servants,

turned so successfully into "the enemy" by the well heeled corporatists..

[NightWatcher]

2. Yeah but they were using the good ink pens and 2-ply tp

Civil servants can't use 2-ply toilet paper...it makes them weak.

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. Another factor is the failure of the make-em-suffer crowd to distinguish between the

hard working career civil servants who keep everything running and who know how to get things done within the system, and the political appointees who are granted lavish pay and perks by their (s)elected masters regardless of capability, aptitude, or skill whose job is often, not to run their department/agency, but to destroy it (Brown, Chertoff, Potter, Duncan, etc.).

It doesn't matter what color jersey you wear during campaign season, if you believe that government is evil, inefficient, and ultimately useless, being put in a position of authority over a part of it is going to produce exactly the results you expect.

[CreekDog]

4. very well stated

the "make-em-suffer" crowd is also an apt description of the ultimately self-defeating attitude too.