How about Rumsfeld hijacking the entire federal employee civil service system?

Civil Service System Begins to Fade Away



By Stephen Barr
Sunday, November 9, 2003; Page C02

The civil service system is breaking up.

House and Senate negotiators announced an agreement Friday that would permit the Pentagon to overhaul the pay and personnel rules for 746,000 civil service employees of the Defense Department.

That agreement -- when combined with last year's decision to allow the Department of Homeland Security to rewrite pay and workplace rules for its 180,000 employees -- means that more than half the federal workforce will no longer be anchored by civil service law.

The House-Senate agreement effectively ends the reign of the 1949 Classification Act, which created the General Schedule and the existing framework for setting pay and evaluating federal employees. The House-Senate agreement also sidelines important parts of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act.

"This is about dropping old thinking, old rules, old relationships," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), who helped negotiate the agreement.

What all of this means for federal employees is unclear. . .

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A very important statement in the article is this one: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld began the push to change the department's personnel rules in the spring. The effort quickly became controversial.

This is the Bush administration trashing the federal government at a time when no one is paying much attention in ways far more reaching than even his war in Iraq. They are literally going after ALL WORKERS.

SRS