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  Combat US jobs going overseas

  The Federal Government needs to focus on keeping jobs here in the US. We need to lower the corporate taxes for companies with the bulk of its employees made up of US citizens and raise corporate taxes on companies located abroad that employ non-US citizens. The corporate tax rate should be calculated to motivate companies away from sending jobs overseas, but still allow all companies to benefit from doing business in ...more »

  The Federal Government needs to focus on keeping jobs here in the US. We need to lower the corporate taxes for companies with the bulk of its employees made up of US citizens and raise corporate taxes on companies located abroad that employ non-US citizens. The corporate tax rate should be calculated to motivate companies away from sending jobs overseas, but still allow all companies to benefit from doing business in the US.

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  Military

  This one is simple. Instead of forcing the Military members to uproot their entire lives every three years and move somewhere else, let them stay where they are stationed if they would like to do so in order to promote stability and family togetherness. Giving them this choice would encourage a lot more people to remain in the military because they have the freedom of choice. Also, the military is among the lowest ...more »

  This one is simple. Instead of forcing the Military members to uproot their entire lives every three years and move somewhere else, let them stay where they are stationed if they would like to do so in order to promote stability and family togetherness. Giving them this choice would encourage a lot more people to remain in the military because they have the freedom of choice.

  Also, the military is among the lowest paid jobs in the nation. For those that defend all of the freedoms of this nation, and for all of the sacrifices that they make, they deserve better compensation. There are soldiers who are forced to live paycheck to paycheck because they are trying the support a family on a $17,000 a year salary. And then when the government shutdown was looming, they were afraid that they could not provide for their families if their pay was taken away. Long story short, if the people of this nation expect these freedoms, then those that provide those freedoms deserve a little more compensation then they are given.

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  Penalize Senate, House, and Congress for budget delays

  There needs to be some sort of checks and balances in the House, Senate, and Congress so that when budgetary issues arise, and there is sabre rattling and feet dragging, there are penalties, such as reduction in pay based on days over budget, as they are not doing the job they were elected for. A sliding scale needs to be developed that effects these members, across the board, so they "must," work together, or they will ...more »

  There needs to be some sort of checks and balances in the House, Senate, and Congress so that when budgetary issues arise, and there is sabre rattling and feet dragging, there are penalties, such as reduction in pay based on days over budget, as they are not doing the job they were elected for. A sliding scale needs to be developed that effects these members, across the board, so they "must," work together, or they will forego pay. The workers should not have to suffer because the elected representatives cannot, or will not, do the job they are paid to do.

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  One Day Off and rotation starting from the TOP DOWN.

  One Day Off or Furlough for one day starting from the top down to military and civilians. This idea would save the Government and the U.S.A. Nation funds on a yearly basis. The idea is spreading the furlough to all Government and Military but NOT at the SAME TIME. For God sake what is this government Idea on FURLOUGH EVERY ONE AT THE SAME TIME. I am putting this on bullets for simplicity, so the idea can be escalated ...more »

  One Day Off or Furlough for one day starting from the top down to military and civilians.

  This idea would save the Government and the U.S.A. Nation funds on a yearly basis. The idea is spreading the furlough to all Government and Military but NOT at the SAME TIME. For God sake what is this government Idea on FURLOUGH EVERY ONE AT THE SAME TIME. I am putting this on bullets for simplicity, so the idea can be escalated accordingly and steps can be added or removed.

  1- Spread the furlough to Government employees and military to only one DAY (a day off without pay) but distributing the load to different employees at different time frame (not all at the same time.)

  2- Starting from the President down to the Vice-President, Congressman, Senate everybody would received a day off without pay.

  3- On the other hand, the same for all Military branches, starting from the top down, one day off without pay for generals, commanders, officers, and enlisted. Everyone will take it but not at the same time.

  4- PAY Roll has to be set up to accommodate for this day off ensuring the day is not pay accordingly to the proposal. And not like few years ago when EVERYONE was off and EVERYONE still received payment for the days off. A nice free vacation with payment included.

  5- We all need to remember, even if the president does not receive pay for one day, he is still the president with decision to make on HIS DAY OFF. And same thing with every military commander, pretty much they all giving a day off without pay but their executive officer or next in the change of command will be incharged.

  6- There is always a backup plan when 25 or 50% of an outfit organization is off duty, the other 50% takes over and performs the function of the office. As the norm when a supervisor is off the next level supervisor takes charge until current supervisor comes back.

  7- Do this for one year, equally shared to all branches of the government and military. Analyze the cost saving and if it works and does not hurt anyone, make it a proposal and mandate to future years.

  8- This also can be implemented to States Government hierarchy.

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  Don't Borrow Federal Retirement Funds

  Do not allow the Treasury Department to borrow money from Federal Retirement Funds. Removing money from any fund in the TSP will result in losses and could potentially have direct impacts on retirement funds. Stating "TSP participants should have nothing to worry about" does not guarantee there will be no impact. Even if they paid back the borrowed amount plus interest, where would we get back our "earnings" for the ...more »

  Do not allow the Treasury Department to borrow money from Federal Retirement Funds. Removing money from any fund in the TSP will result in losses and could potentially have direct impacts on retirement funds. Stating "TSP participants should have nothing to worry about" does not guarantee there will be no impact. Even if they paid back the borrowed amount plus interest, where would we get back our "earnings" for the amount? We would be out that much more money in a so-called "no-risk" account.

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  Let political parties pay for political primary elections.

  Why do the taxpayers have to pay for POLITICAL primaries? We should not have to pay for anything political. I have no problem paying for an election but put everyone on the ballot. If a party wants to narrow the field let them pay for it.

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  A Trillion Dollar waste - WELFARE,section8 ,low income housing

  http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm -section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income ...more »

  http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm -section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income housing system is a complete failure which has drained the US economy of trillions of dollars and maintained tenets in social and financial bondage. there is no incentive to leave section 8 or low income housing. why work or attend college when you can get housing for free or low cost. This encouranges drug abuse and out of wedlock births and tenet abuse by housing squatters and unauthorized people living in the units. section 8 and low income housing also reduce local taxpayers home values and create blighted neighborhoods with loud music and cars with dark windows and dirty messy yards often with dirt as a yard.. SECTION 8 and LOW INCOME HOUSING TENETS NEED TIME LIMITS of 1 to 3 years then they must be evicted from the units since they are living on free enititlements and have no incentive to Raise themselves out of the free benefits. WAKE UP AMERICA! WE ARE TRILLIONS IN DEBT and giving away FREE BENEFITS . remember that all secion 8 and low income housing authoritys are TAX FREE and you pay the costs of educating the people and their rents are susidized and food and insurance are subsidized and paid for. its like the midlle and upper class is paying triple to live, we all have to pay for everyone else.. its not fair..http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm

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  Take top 25 submissions and top 25 contributors for discussion

  I like most ideas on this website. I think that most ideas have come from somebody who is trying to do a great job at what they do. It has become so difficult to navigate through that, I have decided to take 15 minutes out of my day to dedicate to this at home on my own time. I believe that the top 25 contributors and top 25 idea submitters should be invited to bring their heads together and discuss what is really ...more »

  I like most ideas on this website. I think that most ideas have come from somebody who is trying to do a great job at what they do.

  It has become so difficult to navigate through that, I have decided to take 15 minutes out of my day to dedicate to this at home on my own time.

  I believe that the top 25 contributors and top 25 idea submitters should be invited to bring their heads together and discuss what is really important to their agency and to the federal government as a whole.

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  Cut Congressional, Judicial, Executive salaries to 1984 levels

  Cut all of their pay, Congress, White House members, Judges, etc. in half. This would save us 50% of what we taxpayers pay now. http://federaldaily.com/articles/2011/03/11/salary-cut-bill-for-congress.aspx "Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., introduced a bill on March 10 that would cut by 10 percent the annual salaries of the president, vice president and members of Congress. For President Obama, that would be a $40,000 ...more »

  Cut all of their pay, Congress, White House members, Judges, etc. in half. This would save us 50% of what we taxpayers pay now.

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  "Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., introduced a bill on March 10 that would cut by 10 percent the annual salaries of the president, vice president and members of Congress. For President Obama, that would be a $40,000 reduction."

  This is a start but I say 50% at least! The average Congress member gets a minimum of $174,000 a year (2011 levels).

  From 1789 to 1815, members of Congress received only a per diem (daily payment) of $6.00 while in session. Members began receiving an annual salary in 1815, when they were paid $1,500 per year.

  In 1989, Congress passed an amendment allowing for the automatic raises, unless lawmakers specifically voted to reject it. Which Congress did, until 2000...

  Since 1990, congressional pay had increased from $98,400 to $154,700 in 2003.

  Also... Presidential pay history:

  September 24, 1789: $25,000 (actual) $566,000 (2009)

  March 3, 1873: $50,000 (actual) $865,000 (2009)

  March 4, 1909: $75,000 (actual) $1,714,000 (2009)

  January 19, 1949: $100,000 (actual) $906,000 (2009)

  January 20, 1969: $200,000 (actual) $1,175,000 (2009)

  January 20, 2001: $400,000 (actual) $487,000 (2009)

  Decrease pay so that it will not be the sole factor to run for office. Notice how the dollar's value has decreased!

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  STOP Nearly 1 in 10 House members paid at least six-figure bonus

  "Nearly 1 in 10 House members paid at least six-figure bonuses to their staffs last year", see the link below. This is a nosebleed that must stop. Take the ability to give these bonuses out of Congressional hands. OMB or some other agency must approve. What this means is that the staffers THEMSELVES are putting in for a bonus. They do all the work. Millions of Americans are out of work, this is shameful waste of tax ...more »

  "Nearly 1 in 10 House members paid at least six-figure bonuses to their staffs last year", see the link below. This is a nosebleed that must stop. Take the ability to give these bonuses out of Congressional hands. OMB or some other agency must approve.

  What this means is that the staffers THEMSELVES are putting in for a bonus. They do all the work.

  Millions of Americans are out of work, this is shameful waste of tax money.

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  ELIMINATE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

  I propose to eliminate any and all activities, positions, etc., that fall under the umbrella of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action is an atiquated and racist program that recruits, hires, and promotes according to race, sexual preference, gender, etc. The government is in dire need of placing the right people in the right positions by evaluating and basing decisions on qualifications and performance. This will greatly ...more »

  I propose to eliminate any and all activities, positions, etc., that fall under the umbrella of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action is an atiquated and racist program that recruits, hires, and promotes according to race, sexual preference, gender, etc. The government is in dire need of placing the right people in the right positions by evaluating and basing decisions on qualifications and performance. This will greatly increase productivity, eliminate wasteful spending in MANY areas, and help to eliminate racism.

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  Give an Annual Tax Credit for each Hour of Sick Leave Donated

  Place a monetary value on each hour of sick leave donated (whether direct designation or to a pool), and let the employee or new retiree take a tax credit for that tax year the sick leave was actually donated. Create and annually issue an IRS form similar to 1098-T for tuition credit…1098- SLD whatever.

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  Management Accountability - Let's Withold Management Pay Raises

  How about putting aside complaints about a system that makes it difficult to fire an employee that does not perform......just for a minute? As a senior HR Manager/Professional, I cannot tell you how many times I've heard this unsubstantiated complaint from managers. Can it be difficult? Yes! MUST it be difficult? NO! The problems managers encounter when trying to remove an employee are usually created by the manager ...more »

  How about putting aside complaints about a system that makes it difficult to fire an employee that does not perform......just for a minute?

  As a senior HR Manager/Professional, I cannot tell you how many times I've heard this unsubstantiated complaint from managers. Can it be difficult? Yes! MUST it be difficult? NO!

  The problems managers encounter when trying to remove an employee are usually created by the manager or his or her predecessor. Removing an employee is not completely unlike sending a citizen to jail; A case must be proven and that means that management must have their stuff in order and nine times out of ten, this is normally where the problem lies.

  So my recommendation as to how to address the performance problem in government is to hold the manager accountable for EVERY employee failure; if an employee is not consistently performing, neither is the supervisor.....simple as that!!

  Do your job as a manager. Record, counsel and discipline! Along with the technical responsibilities, THIS IS YOUR JOB, OWN IT OR MOVE ON!

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  Revamp Federal Pay System, quit rewarding mediocrity

  As a young career status federal employee, I have seen how the current pay system can/should be improved. I have seen mediocrity and longevity rewarded with higher salaries with some employees working twice is hard while their peers are making thousands less doing the EXACT same work. Case in point: I work with two WG employees. One is extremely motivated, well rounded and does an excellent job. He has been with the gov't ...more »

  As a young career status federal employee, I have seen how the current pay system can/should be improved. I have seen mediocrity and longevity rewarded with higher salaries with some employees working twice is hard while their peers are making thousands less doing the EXACT same work. Case in point: I work with two WG employees. One is extremely motivated, well rounded and does an excellent job. He has been with the gov't 6 years. The second employee has been with the gov't 23 years. Although he reports to work on time, he does a mediocre job, and I often find the younger WG employee picking up the other employee's slack and taking on more projects. I cannot trust the 23 year employee with any projects that require attention to detail. The younger employee is a 6 year career status employee but is not eligible for another step raise for another year or two. The mediocre employee is topped out and is making almost $6k more than the younger employee. Unfortunately I am not either of their supervisors and can't do anything about their pay, but I have voiced my opinion that the current system needs to be fixed/improved.

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  Consolidation of U.S. Army Travel Payment Procedures

  All incoming and outgoing soldiers in Europe are processed through multiple agencies. This creates mutiple levels that the solidier must jump through in-order to receive pay for travel entitlements. Previously payments were made locally. This allowed the paying agency to work directly with the member in order to resolve problems created by unique circumstances, which resulted in quick payment and increased morale. However, ...more »

  All incoming and outgoing soldiers in Europe are processed through multiple agencies. This creates mutiple levels that the solidier must jump through in-order to receive pay for travel entitlements. Previously payments were made locally. This allowed the paying agency to work directly with the member in order to resolve problems created by unique circumstances, which resulted in quick payment and increased morale. However, this ability was taken away from the local level and moved to DFAS-Rome. This created multiple levels required in order to process a payment. The process has gone from 3-5 days for payment to 30-45 days average. It also requires more personnel and more work hours wasted.The systems for processing payments at the local level are in place and can be activated with minimal issues. This will reduce incorrect payments, decrease proccessing time and increase morale. In this instance, consolidation has created a more complex system and should be reversed.

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  Push (REEL) Mowers for Inmates

  A solution to save on fuel costs would be for Institutions to use push mowers instead of gasoline operated mowers. Not only does the government save money for fuel and maintenancer, but inmates are afforded health benefits by pushing the mowers, maintaining their physical fitness. Additionally, the environmental impact is aided in less carbon emisions. The cost of a gas powered mower is around 3 to 4 times what a manual ...more »

  A solution to save on fuel costs would be for Institutions to use push mowers instead of gasoline operated mowers. Not only does the government save money for fuel and maintenancer, but inmates are afforded health benefits by pushing the mowers, maintaining their physical fitness. Additionally, the environmental impact is aided in less carbon emisions. The cost of a gas powered mower is around 3 to 4 times what a manual push mower would cost. Also, the maintenance for a manual push mower is 10% of maintaining a gas powered mower.

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  Reduce Wait Time for Retirement Pay

  With the growing number of FERS employees retiring or becoming eligible to retire, a system for checks and balances needs to be addressed to ensure retirees begin receiving their full entitlements within the first six months of retirement. This would limit the need for retirees to seek new employment and/or outside help.

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  Up the Ceiling and the Floor on Retirement Incentives

  $25k tops is not enough of a retirement incentive to retire as a USG senior employee. For the first half of the incentive, consider paying a certain amount of tax-free cash at upwards of $50k with $25k the floor for all eligible, and issue U.S. Government Savings Bonds at a matching dollar rate for the other half of the incentive package. Would create immediate head-space across all USG levels. Rules would include ...more »

  $25k tops is not enough of a retirement incentive to retire as a USG senior employee. For the first half of the incentive, consider paying a certain amount of tax-free cash at upwards of $50k with $25k the floor for all eligible, and issue U.S. Government Savings Bonds at a matching dollar rate for the other half of the incentive package. Would create immediate head-space across all USG levels. Rules would include that retirement must occur within 1st quarter of any new FY to allow maximum recovery of salary/benefits for remainder of the FY. The agency has already received the money for a full FY…a win-win.

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  Mandatory Posting of All Awards

  All will be surprised how much savings (and equity) can be brought when a little light is shined through mandatory, intra-agency, by-name posting/notification on all awards, promotions, bonuses, incentives, etc., etc., financial and otherwise, on at least a quarterly basis.

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  Retirement Incentives

  Pay retirement incentives to already eligible (or within 1 year) similar to most Fortune-500 companies, i.e., $2k for each year of service or 75% of annual salary, etc., plus $25k tax-free kicker whatever. Would create immediate head-space across all USG levels. Rules would include that retirement must occur within 1st quarter of any new FY to allow maximum recovery of salary/benefits for remainder of the FY. The agency ...more »

  Pay retirement incentives to already eligible (or within 1 year) similar to most Fortune-500 companies, i.e., $2k for each year of service or 75% of annual salary, etc., plus $25k tax-free kicker whatever. Would create immediate head-space across all USG levels. Rules would include that retirement must occur within 1st quarter of any new FY to allow maximum recovery of salary/benefits for remainder of the FY. The agency has already received the money for a full FY…a win-win.

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  Shock and Awe

  The free spending bureacrats need a wake up call and the only way to do that is to cut the positions, not a furlow. Rather cut the number of positions by 10, 20, or 30% & cut the pay for those managers making over six figures to bring them back down to 2000 levels, if they can't meet mission requirements.

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  pay differential for MLT's

  MT's (Medical Technologists) are typically B.S.prepared and registered by ASCP. MLT's are vocationally trained to do very similar work as MT's. They do not currently receive shift differential or weekend differential. There is no means for MLT's to progress to a Grade 8. I'm told Congressional consideration is required to correct these discrepancies. MLT's that are educationally prepared and registered by ASCP, deserve ...more »

  MT's (Medical Technologists) are typically B.S.prepared and registered by ASCP. MLT's are vocationally trained to do very similar work as MT's. They do not currently receive shift differential or weekend differential. There is no means for MLT's to progress to a Grade 8. I'm told Congressional consideration is required to correct these discrepancies. MLT's that are educationally prepared and registered by ASCP, deserve to be recognized as professionals. Thank you.

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  Make Congress Work More Days Each Year

  What does it look like to have so many people unemployed and have a part-time Congress. Make Congress stay in session longer. They just came back from a ten (10) day break. An average of 160-190 workdays is too light for the problems that we have. Make it mandatory that a Congress' Session Calendar be posted to each Member's website, so that we can see what their workweek looks like. Basically, it is a three day week. ...more »

  What does it look like to have so many people unemployed and have a part-time Congress. Make Congress stay in session longer. They just came back from a ten (10) day break. An average of 160-190 workdays is too light for the problems that we have. Make it mandatory that a Congress' Session Calendar be posted to each Member's website, so that we can see what their workweek looks like. Basically, it is a three day week. If they are going to be part-time, they should be paid accordingly.

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  Reduce Pay Frequency

  In the private sector, many companies achieve significant cost savings by reducing the frequency of payroll from weekly or bi-weekly to semi-monthly or even monthly. Agencies within the government differ as to pay frequency, but eliminating weekly and bi-weekly payrolls at the agencies that still have them would likely achieve similar cost savings.

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  Top Heavy Organizations

  Too many high level positions have been and continue to be created, with little to no oversight regarding their need. The primary mission of some agencies seems to be how many of our friends can we move into high level positions and not how best to get the mission accomplished. The only way to cure that is to specifically CUT the allocation of high level positions...meaning GS13 and above. No grandfathering, etc. to be ...more »

  Too many high level positions have been and continue to be created, with little to no oversight regarding their need. The primary mission of some agencies seems to be how many of our friends can we move into high level positions and not how best to get the mission accomplished. The only way to cure that is to specifically CUT the allocation of high level positions...meaning GS13 and above. No grandfathering, etc. to be allowed, and limit save pay to ONE YEAR.

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