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13 votes
Tax payers pay for the drug research, not the drug companies, and then US customers pay top dollar for the drugs they funded.
Government should hold on to the patents for 10 years and then lease the distrubution to pharmiceutical companies.
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It is wrong that OPM and the unions make it hard to discharge non-performers, but even worse that the rule restrict the advancement of the governments best and brightest contributors to time-in-service requirements. Trying to create a mythical "fair" career ladder holds back the best and the brightest from contributing all they can to their agencies. If we can't use negative reinforcements (like easier processes to ...more »
It is wrong that OPM and the unions make it hard to discharge non-performers, but even worse that the rule restrict the advancement of the governments best and brightest contributors to time-in-service requirements.
Trying to create a mythical "fair" career ladder holds back the best and the brightest from contributing all they can to their agencies. If we can't use negative reinforcements (like easier processes to get rid of non-peformers who cost that tax payers huge amounts of money), then let's use positive reinforcements like allowing great peformers to jump grades, or move up on a faster track.
What was meant to be fair, only supports the lowest common denominator in performance. A private organization could never survive like this.
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Insist that federal vendors do paperless billing and and accept bank transfers for payment. Give citizens the option to opt-in to paperless correspondance and notifications from the governement..even run a PSA about it. Insist that all benefit provider accept on-line enrollment (save so much time, money and error) All interagency and congressional reporting is done digitally. The impact to the environment is obvious. ...more »
Insist that federal vendors do paperless billing and and accept bank transfers for payment.
Give citizens the option to opt-in to paperless correspondance and notifications from the governement..even run a PSA about it.
Insist that all benefit provider accept on-line enrollment (save so much time, money and error)
All interagency and congressional reporting is done digitally.
The impact to the environment is obvious. If we reduce by 50% in a year governement mailing, printing and processing paper are an easy way to increase efficiency and save money.
The technology and security to do this are all out there already.
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