Half-Million Federal Employees Earning $100,000 Plus & Have 99.82% Job Security Rates, While Private Sector Workers Are Losing JOBS in Droves; Big Changes Coming in 2012? New Polls Show American VOTERS are Totally Disgusted with Obama & Current U.S. Congress:
By Marc Chamot
Again, more people applied for unemployment benefits last week. Layoffs and jobs losses keep rising, but there’s no ending in sight.
Unemployment application benefits rose by 10,000, to a seasonal adjustment of 418,000 says U.S. Labor Department.
Unemployment applications have topped 400,000 for 15 straight weeks. Consumers have cut back in spending, besieged by high unemployment fears and stagnant wages. Basically, President Obama and this U.S. Congress have not found nor cared to find immediate solutions for our economical ills. Americans are suffering more than EVER.
With disastrous figures like these, this is not the TIME to be talking about cutting social services, and other safety nets that unemployed Americans depend on.
According to U.S.A Today/Gallup polls, 39% of polled VOTERS are saying, “This is absolutely the WORST U.S. congress they have ever seen in their lifetimes!” Basically, U.S. VOTERS are giving both Obama and U.S. congress the worst marks than any of their predecessors in dealing with the nation’s WOES.
‘Americans aren't pleased by the political shenanigans they are seeing in down-to-the-wire negotiations over the debt ceiling.’
Two-thirds of the VOTERS think that both parties, Democrats and Republicans, put political interests ahead of the people’s or the countries. Only 7% are saying that both parties are negotiating in good faith!
“They ARE not listening to Americans,” said Cary Lefkowitz, a Democrat from L.A. President Obama’s approval rating is at 45%, while congressional Democrats 33% and congressional Republicans at 28%.
But New poll carries warning signs for Obama in 2012 “A poll released last Wednesday carried warning signs for President Barack Obama's re-election chances in 2012.
The Public Policy Polling survey found that for the first time since July, Obama does not lead Republican front-runner Mitt Romneyin the group's monthly national poll on the 2012 election race. Romney has pulled into a tie with Obama at 45 percent.
Obama's overall approval rating was at 46 percent, with 48 percent of voters disapproving of him, and this is in line with other recent surveys.
But independents were split against Obama 49 percent to 44 percent, and the president will need independent voters to help carry him to victory in November 2012.
Independents broke solidly for Obama in his 2008 election but helped Republicans win the U.S. House of Representatives in last November's congressional elections.
Obama's approval rating has been in the doldrums because of the 9.2 percent U.S. jobless rate and prolonged wrangling with Congress over raising the U.S. debt ceiling.
The polling organization said on its website that Obama's position appeared worse than meets the eye.
"There's a very good chance Barack Obama would lose if he had to stand for re-election today," said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling. "This is his worst poll standing in a long time and he really needs the economy to start turning around."
This is the BIG PRICE politicians are paying for taking foreign and other special interests, i.e. Wall Street over struggling Americans.
That’s why it would be disastrous for Washington to cut Social Security, Medicaid and other survival benefits, when so many Americans are OUT of work. It would be POLITICAL suicide for any politician to even think about it.
It would be much easier to revise our unbalanced trade accords that we have with China, India and Brazil, and even cut into the Federal government workforce, before screwing unemployed Americans benefits.
Reviving lost industries that have escaped abroad to Taiwan, Singapore, and China should be first act of congress. Let’s put it this way my ‘friends,’ China, India and Brazil WILL NOT get you re-elected, we do, the American VOTER will be the one that PUTS you back into office.
However, another U.S.A Today alarming report just came out. While private sector workers are losing their JOBS in droves, only death is more likely for someone to lose a Federal JOB.
“Federal employees' job security is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, a USA TODAY analysis finds. “They are all living well ‘high off the hog’ at taxpayer’s expense, while the rest of us peons are struggling and being trampled all over.”
More from USA Today; “Death -- rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs -- is the primary threat to job security at theEnvironmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Management and Budget and a dozen other federal operations.
The federal government fired 0.55% of its workers in the budget year that ended Sept. 30 -- 11,668 employees in its 2.1 million workforce.
Research shows that the private sector fires about 3% of workers annually for poor performance, says John Palguta, former research chief at the federal Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles federal firing disputes.
Federal job security contrasts with the constant churn in the private sector. Among this week's announced pending private job cuts: 10,000 at Borders bookstores, 6,500 at computer giant Cisco Systems and 1,000 at Goldman Sachs investment bank.
The job security rate for all federal workers was 99.43% last year and nearly 100% for those on the job more than a few years.
HUD spokesman Jerry Brown says his department's low dismissal rate -- providing a 99.85% job security rate for employees -- shows a skilled and committed workforce. "We've never focused on firing people, and we don't intend to start now. We're more focused on hiring the right people," he says.
San Francisco State University management professor John Sullivan, an expert on employee turnover, says the low departure rates show a failure to release poor performers and those with obsolete skills. "Rather than indicating something positive, rates below 1% in the firing and layoff components would indicate a serious management problem," he says.
The government laid off 385 people in reorganizations last year -- a 0.02% rate, or one in every 6,000 employees. No comparable private sector layoff rate is available.
USA TODAY analyzed the Office of Personnel Management's database to examine federal job security. Firings are for all reasons, including poor performance, stealing and sexual harassment. The Postal Service and uniformed military personnel are not included in the data.
White-collar federal workers have almost total job security after a few years on the job. Last year, the government fired none of its 3,000 meteorologists, 2,500 health insurance administrators, 1,000 optometrists, 800 historians or 500 industrial property managers.
The nearly half-million federal employees earning $100,000 or more enjoyed a 99.82% job security rate in 2010. Only 27 of 35,000 federal attorneys were fired last year. None was laid off. Death claimed 33.
Government workers FIRED in 2010:
Turnover minimal at
federal agencies
federal agencies
Federal departments or agencies employing 1,000 or more that had the lowest rates of firing or laying off employees in the year ending Sept. 30, 2010:
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Federal Communications Commission | 1,832 | 0 |
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Federal Trade Commission | 1,189 | 0 |
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission | 4,211 | 2 |
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National Labor Relations Board | 1,714 | 1 |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 18,671 | 13 |
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Environmental Protection Agency | 18,742 | 19 |
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U.S. Agency for International Development | 3,376 | 4 |
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Securities and Exchange Commission | 3,917 | 5 |
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Small Business Administration | 4,019 | 6 |
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | 10,041 | 15 |
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Source: Office of Personnel Management
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