NPR came on the clock radio this morning with a tear jerking piece. Since the sequester, civil servants have been taking furloughs, not getting raises, having to conserve office supplies, having more work to do and fewer people to do it. Awful.
And morale is down. No raises, and lots of criticism is just crushing the tender egos of the gov'ment workforce.
And it's all the fault of that nasty sequester.
And all of the civil servants interviewed for this piece were government union representatives.
It's just terrible that the civil servants, who enjoy better salaries, benefits, and retirement than ordinary working stiffs, have to forgo a raise. It's a good thing they have NPR to plead their case to the public. On the public's nickel no less.
NPR was hitting on all cylinders this morning. After that plea for the poor down trodden civil servants they launched into an attack on Facebook. According to NPR, Facebook spend some $10 million (chickenfeed) lobbying Congress on the immigration bill. Something to do about H1B visa's. The reporter didn't bother to explain just what Facebook was lobbying for, but she was sure it was evil. H1B visa's are a deal to let high tech workers, most often computer programmers, into the US. US union people are always against H1B 'cause they think it lowers American worker's wages. US companies are always in favor of more H1B visa's cause good programming talent is hard to come by and bringing it in from overseas gives them a bigger pool to fish in.
Non political that NPR is, very non political. And government funded.
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