While we are waiting for Khagler to reply back to our query let me explain the graft issue I have at the personal level. My last job was that of a OSHA Safety and Compliance Officer. The one of the last cases I handled was a employee violence case that won for myself and the office I worked with the OSHA Secretary award. It is an award of the highest level in the agency and OSHA does not hand these out like candy, to put it bluntly. And this was a case that I had to persevere in the face of pressure from my supervisor and her supervisor to let it go. So if I am Khagler's example of a "parasite", what is his example of a civil servant examplar like?
My "beat" encompassed North Central Alabama. Now "Southern" hospitality normally includes giving out some "tokens" of appreciation. I normally have to explain it to these kind folks that ethics rules forbid me from excepting anything more that a cup of coffee or a bottle of water. I can't even ask the secretaries and or complainants out on a date (*whine*). And OSHA will terminate you in a heartbeat if even the hint of graft shows up. and these companies will do it in a heart beat. There was newly hired trainee (temporary) that tried flashing his credentials to a Georgia State Trooper when he was pulled over for DUI. Said trooper reported him to the Regional office in Atlanta. Said trainee was no longer with OSHA.
If Kahgler et all thinks this has never happened before at the Federal level, yes it has. The most recent one was this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washi ... yalty.html
Which kinda makes me wonder what the Bush Secretary of the Interior was doing at the time this was happening?
So now we have a soon to be POTUS who is raising all sorts of ethics flags and ignoring it. Do folks really think that foreign governments will not try to make enticements to Trump? Same thing goes for his cabinet nominees. A good chuck of his cabinet is staring to look like a bunch of folks who are in it for the moolah they're going raise during and after office.
And if the big fish are doing it, why not all folks further down the food chain? Trump is sending out strong signals by his example.
If Khagler and like minded folks are fine with the U.S. federal government turning into a government like Nigeria, Russia and the Philippines at the national level, no faux spasms of outrage when the corruption scandals of this incoming administration start coming out. You folks were warned.
Edit:Some of these "tokens",btw come with a hefty price tag. And forget even buying their products after the inspection. If I was the "parasite", Khagler was intimating, I would have made out like a bandit. But I like to think my integrity and honor is not for sale. If Khagler is fine with civil servants who are otherwise, well that's up to him.
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
My "beat" encompassed North Central Alabama. Now "Southern" hospitality normally includes giving out some "tokens" of appreciation. I normally have to explain it to these kind folks that ethics rules forbid me from excepting anything more that a cup of coffee or a bottle of water. I can't even ask the secretaries and or complainants out on a date (*whine*). And OSHA will terminate you in a heartbeat if even the hint of graft shows up. and these companies will do it in a heart beat. There was newly hired trainee (temporary) that tried flashing his credentials to a Georgia State Trooper when he was pulled over for DUI. Said trooper reported him to the Regional office in Atlanta. Said trainee was no longer with OSHA.
If Kahgler et all thinks this has never happened before at the Federal level, yes it has. The most recent one was this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washi ... yalty.html
Which kinda makes me wonder what the Bush Secretary of the Interior was doing at the time this was happening?
So now we have a soon to be POTUS who is raising all sorts of ethics flags and ignoring it. Do folks really think that foreign governments will not try to make enticements to Trump? Same thing goes for his cabinet nominees. A good chuck of his cabinet is staring to look like a bunch of folks who are in it for the moolah they're going raise during and after office.
And if the big fish are doing it, why not all folks further down the food chain? Trump is sending out strong signals by his example.
If Khagler and like minded folks are fine with the U.S. federal government turning into a government like Nigeria, Russia and the Philippines at the national level, no faux spasms of outrage when the corruption scandals of this incoming administration start coming out. You folks were warned.
Edit:Some of these "tokens",btw come with a hefty price tag. And forget even buying their products after the inspection. If I was the "parasite", Khagler was intimating, I would have made out like a bandit. But I like to think my integrity and honor is not for sale. If Khagler is fine with civil servants who are otherwise, well that's up to him.
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell