A peek at a federal employee’s spam e-mail from Team Obama
Here’s the e-mail of the day, from a beleaguered federal employee at the Commerce Department.
Thanks to the e-mailer for giving us a revealing glimpse into the bowels of the spam-happy, appointee-overrun Obama bureaucracy.
Michelle,
I work for the Department of Commerce as a federal employee…and am getting rather fed up with what I have seen since last January…
Over the past couple of weeks, we have received several emails (a couple below, two received within a minute of each other) from the Commerce Secretary, Gary Locke, announcing ANOTHER new White House web site. This web site is where employees can make suggestions for how government can save money……ooooh, and win a trip to see Obama!!
What a joke after all we have seen since Obama was elected! Too bad the general public cannot submit suggestions.
I wonder how many needed items will be cut in favor of more leftist programs?
Somehow I highly doubt the following suggestions would be acceptable to them:
1. Get rid of the numerous and redundant czars.
2. Stop bailing out institutions that should probably fail like banks, car companies, unions, etc., particularly the politically connected.
3. Make Charlie Rangel pay his taxes.
4. Stop funding corrupt organizations immediately like ACORN.
5. Stop flying Air Force One (and the massive entourage) all over the world for personal reasons.
6. Stop flying in sycophantic supporters to promote your socialized health plan.
I could go on and on.
Today, another email was sent out announcing the creation of two new political appointee positions within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Just what we need. More layers of flunkies at the top taking up space.
How about saving money by not creating these positions for political cronies?
The emails follow:
Email 1…
From:Secretary, The
[mailto:xxx_xxxxxxxx@doc.gov]
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:53 AM
Subject: Save AwardAs many of you know, last week President Obama launched the SAVE Award calling on all federal employees to submit their ideas for innovative ways to reduce spending within our respective agencies.
This is a reminder that the deadline is just two weeks away.
The winner will get to present his or her idea directly to President Obama and also have it included in the FY 2011 budget.
Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute your ideas to help reduce wasteful spending and make a government that is more efficient and effective.
All submissions are confidential, and can be made at www.SaveAward.gov.
The deadline is Wednesday, October 14, and the winner will be announced in November. I urge you to participate (www.SaveAward.gov) not only so the Department of Commerce can win the award for the best participation, but also because this effort is an important way to give the American people a government that does more for less.
Thank you for your support of this effort and for participating in the President’s SAVE Award contest.
Sincerely,
Gary Locke
Secretary of CommerceP.S. Visit www.SaveAward.gov for more info!
Email 2…
From:Secretary, The
[mailto:xxx_xxxxxxxx@doc.gov]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:16 PM
Subject: Save AwardTo: All DOC employees
From: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke
Subject: Save Award
Do you have a good idea for how the Department of Commerce can trim costs and save taxpayer dollars? Submit (insert link www.SaveAward.gov) your cost-saving initiative for potential inclusion in the President’s Budget and become the first-ever SAVE Award winner.
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, October 14. The winner will meet with President Obama at the White House and have his or her savings initiative incorporated into the FY 2011 Budget. In addition, the agency with the most participation in the contest will receive an award.
In a radio address on April 25, 2009,the President called for “a process through which every government worker can submit their ideas for how their agency can save money and perform better.”
The President’s SAVE Award will fulfill this commitment by enabling any federal employee to submit ideas for efficiencies and savings as part of the annual Budget process. This contest is part of a larger effort to make sure that we invest taxpayer dollars in programs and initiatives that have proven records of success and fix or end programs that do not.
All submissions are confidential, and can be made at www.SaveAward.gov.
The deadline is Wednesday, October 14, and the winner will be announced in November. I urge you to participate (www.SaveAward.gov) not only so the Department of Commerce can win the award for the best participation, but also because this effort is an important way to give the American people a government that does more for less.
Thank you for your support of this effort and for participating in the President’s SAVE Award contest.
Sincerely,
Gary Locke
Secretary of CommerceP.S. For more info, go to www.SaveAward.gov and watch a video from OMB Director Peter Orszag.
Email 3…
From:Secretary, The
[mailto:xxx_xxxxxxxx@doc.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:16 AM
Subject: Save Award ContestTO: All Department of Commerce Employees
FROM: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke
SUBJECT: Save Award Contest
As many of you know, President Obama launched the SAVE Award contest calling on federal employees to submit their ideas for innovative ways to reduce spending within our respective agencies.
This is a reminder that the deadline is just one week away.
The winner will have the opportunity to visit the White House and meet President Obama and have his or her savings initiative incorporated into the FY 2011 Budget.
Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute your ideas to help reduce wasteful spending and make a government that is more efficient and effective.
All submissions are confidential, and can be made at www.SaveAward.gov.
The deadline is Wednesday, October 14, and the winner will be announced in November. I urge you to participate (www.SaveAward.gov) not only so the Department of Commerce can win the award for the best participation, but also because this effort is an important way to give the American people a government that does more for less.
For more info, go to www.SaveAward.gov and watch a video from OMB Director Peter Orszag.
Thank you for your support of this effort and for participating in the President’s SAVE Award contest.
Email 4…
October 8, 2009
At the beginning of this administration, the president’s transition team looked closely at how NOAA conducts everyday business. These consultations engaged many NOAA leaders and staff, as well as officials in the Department of Commerce. It was no surprise the team found that NOAA has an outstanding work force. However, they also recognized that our headquarters leadership structure is not aligned effectively to keep pace with the many changes our agency has experienced through the years, nor with the complex environmental, economic and social challenges facing our nation and the ever-growing demands for NOAA’s science, service and stewardship missions.
Our agency budget, roughly $250 million in 1970, has grown to about $4.5 billion. Yet, the administrative structure has changed little since 1970. We lack a sufficient number of senior-level administration officials to manage our resources and effectively oversee headquarters functions.
I’m pleased to announce that, for first time since 1970, we are proposing to realign and enhance our headquarters leadership structure. The addition of senior-level political appointees and the redefinition of some existing roles will streamline decision-making at headquarters, strengthen guidance to the agency, improve accountability, and more clearly outline authority and responsibilities among senior NOAA leadership.
The proposed headquarters alignment establishes a clear plan for oversight of NOAA’s three main functions, consistent with the principle of ecosystem-based management: (1) Conservation and Management; (2) Environmental Observation and Prediction; and (3) Research and Education. By implementing this new alignment, as recommended by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, NOAA will emerge a stronger, smarter and more responsive, science-centered organization.New Leadership Structure Summary
Approved by the administration and transmitted to the Congress for approval on Oct. 7, 2009, the proposed alignment will involve a number of structural changes to NOAA’s headquarters organizational chart and reporting, including:
* Increasing the number of senior-level political appointees from five to seven,in order to provide for improved oversight of, and direction for, NOAA’s roughly $4.5 billion budget.
* Establishing a Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere as a Senior Executive Service-level appointee who will be responsible for day-to-day oversight of headquarters functions. This position will manage a number of functions that cut across the agency, specifically: Communication and External Affairs; Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs; Federal Coordinator for Meteorology; Education; International Affairs; and Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships.
* Renaming the Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere as the Deputy Under Secretary for Operations.This position will continue to manage NOAA operations across the agency including oversight of line offices and supervision over corporate offices, specifically: Acquisition and Grants; Chief Administrative Officer; Chief Financial Officer; Chief Information Officer and High Performance Computing; Marine and Aviation Operations; Program Analysis and Evaluation; and Workforce Management.
* Renaming the Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere as the Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Management. This position, which requires a presidential appointment and Senate confirmation, will drive policy and program direction for NOAA’s stewardship responsibilities, including ocean resource management, coastal management, and protected resources.
* Establishing an Assistant Secretary for Environmental Observation and Prediction, to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The Assistant Secretary will drive policy and program direction for weather and water, integrated mapping, and observing architecture, including satellites.
* Reinstituting and elevating the role of NOAA Chief Scientist, to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. As senior scientist for NOAA, the Chief Scientist will drive policy and program direction for science and technology priorities.
* Establishing a Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Fisheries, a non-career Senior Executive Service-level appointee charged with international fishery negotiations as specified in the 2007 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Conservation and Management Act, who will report to the Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Management.
* Establishing an Office of Policy that reports to the Chief of Staff. This will include the existing Program Coordination Office, as well as manage the internal NOAA executive decision-making process and its committees, such as the NOAA Executive Panel and the NOAA Executive Council.
I want to emphasize that the day-to-day operations of NOAA line offices and corporate offices will proceed as usual. Further, the headquarters alignment will not adversely affect the reporting relationships or conditions of employment of any bargaining unit employees.I believe the benefits of the new headquarters alignment are significant. It will better enable NOAA’s fulfillment of key priorities for the Obama Administration and the Department of Commerce, principally those related to climate science and services, the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, and the president’s science and technology initiatives.
On a practical note, the addition of a second Assistant Secretary and a Principal Deputy Under Secretary will also allow me to take a more active role in many of our high priority programs and objectives, including the NPOESS program and implementation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. I will be able to focus more productively on our primary strategic aims, develop and sustain our partnerships, create greater support for NOAA among stakeholders, and engage with other federal agencies in pursuit of good government outcomes.
I’m very eager to implement our new leadership structure and excited about the possibility its holds for enhancing our delivery of world-class science and services to the nation. I’ll have more news and details in the coming weeks and months as we complete our consultations with the Congress and as we welcome new appointees to our senior leadership team.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jane Lubchenco
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator
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I guess second prize is two days with Obama.
Didn’t this employee get the memo? It’s now racist/sexist/homophobic to criticize anything Obama’s administration does? They’d better get with the program and pay due homage to their dear leader.
/sarcasm
If this is good government, I’ll take vanilla.
Lord Almighty, my hair hurts just from scrolling down that bull$h!-.
Once again, we see that the writers of the BBC series “Yes, Minister” were not in the least exaggerating.
For more than a few yucks, I recommend watching the clip at the link below.
The last minute or so, when Sir Humphrey rattles off the number and categories of “secretaries”, sounds not too different from what those stupid emails shown above read like.
Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwiJiRdod48
Email 4
Oh, good more thugs at the top to ram down “priorities for the Obama Administration…related to climate science and services, the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force [Pass-Law-of-the-Sea Czar?], and the president’s science and technology initiatives.”
…the better to crush the “Deniers”.
In order to better align a scientific agency with the fantasy land of libtard beliefs we are appointing even more useless socialist leaders. This will insure that any think people left in NOAA are found out and re-educated as good little obamanites.
Is there any doubt that election year 1980 will be repeated in 2012? God, I hope so! Please help us!
No law of the seas here, just global warming BS at best, and whatever the heck ’social justice for fish’ is at worst.
The part that confuses me is the 4.5 billion dollar budget. I bet it would work a lot more efficiently if they simply rolled it back to 1970 dollars plus inflation, which would be somewhere south of 1 billion.
And that is my suggestion, just cut the budget dramatically.
I’m also a Federal employee and we got notice of this too. Let me clue you in on a few things:
1) From the announcement to the end of the contest is less than a month. Hardly enough time for someone to come up with a good idea and be able to study it and quantify it’s results.
2) The Federal government NEVER announces a job position unless they have someone in mind to fill it. I would say that the same train of thought goes for this prize as well. They know EXACTLY who will win this prize and it will be some fabulous ‘green’ idea, mark my words.
‘for first time since 1970, we are proposing to realign and enhance our headquarters leadership structure. The addition of senior-level political appointees’
It’s spreading the wealth around !
I agree…sorta like suggesting replacing all the incandescent bulbs in some building with CFL’s to save energy and duh, duh DAH….save the planet!
I would like to see the top 10 submissions, and whether the winner will be some upper bureaucrat. What other employee would risk the wrath of some manager by submitting his pet project?
Interesting to see:
yet if you go to the web site, you have to put in your email address to make the submission.
Suggestion for SAVE award:
Install spam filters on all federal e-mail accounts that can identify and block repetitive language in e-mails, especially from Cabinet level officials.
Send it from your boss’s computer under his name when he’s out of the office. You will have eliminated one level of management by the time the dust settles. Effeciency can be obtained in many ways.
I hope the employee submitted that list of suggestions.
I rather be a al quida captive for the next three years or whenever this dillweed gets impeached for being the biggest Moron in
Americathe world..Toilet paper is eliminated in all federal buildings, as of now … I win!!!
Iowahawk, call your office….
If the Obamanation wants suggestions let’s give him suggestions. Start spreading that web address all over the blogosphere and load them up with suggestions.
AL GORE WAS NOT THE WORST – OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!!!!!!
I repeat – OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!!!!!
scotthong—I read that headline on Drudge. At first, I thought it was a “Western Onion” kind of sick joke. The link seemed real enough. If this is really true, & both Gore & Obama have won Nobel Prizes, the standards are so low we can now expect the Literature prize to go to someone who writes “Think & Do” books, chemistry to someone who mixed salt & water, physics to someone who dropped an apple….The list is endless. Now anyone, regardless of real accomplishment, is in the running for a Prize. As W.C. Fields said, “I’d rather be in Philidelphia.”
So now they’re playing Who Wants to Be an Obama Czar. Or would it be America’s Next Top Czar? So You Think You Can Czar? Czarvivor? Way to govern.
Who…what? Did Obama just win the Nobel…the Heismann…Best Supporting Actor in a Melodrama? Where’s Kanye?
Seriously, isn’t a Nobel for people who have done something? What has Obama done to promote peace. This has to be a real insult to anyone who has won a Nobel (recent peace prizes excluded).
At this point all I can see has done is promote depression.
Sell out Israel
The Nobel Peace prize has become like the Oscar for the Acadamey awards. It’s no longer about the subject but a way to make a political statement.
It’s sort of like giving the prize to the Muslims in the Sudan for their humanitarian efforts toward the Christians of that country.
As to the contest for saving money, I think I would submit the following:
1. Abolish the IRS.
2. Abolish the Dept of Education.
3. Abolish the Dept of Energy.
4. Stop the end of year spending frenzy with the intent of dumping as many tax dollars as possible on useless toys.
There, that should at least make the government spending neutral for one year.
All while He and Congress both Sell out the U.S.A.
I tried that. Unfortunately you have to have a .gov e-mail address because it sends a confirmation e-mail to make sure you’re legit. I did submit a comment to the white house main site, though, letting them know what I though about it along with the list.
Nobel Peace Prize for…what?
Negotiating with terrorist countries?
Allowing Iran to continue to build nuclear reactors?
Sending known terrorists to Bermuda?
Promoting socialism and Chicago politics??I guess that wins big points for peace?
What, exactly, has Obama done for our country in 9 months of office other than destroy the economy through his bailouts; buy a dog; fly Air Force One all over the place using massive amounts of fuel and costing the taxpayer; lose the Olympics (thankfully); and be a narcissisic, egotisitical; empty-suit of promises?
What is Obama’s accomplishment other than photo-ops? He has divided our country more than any single figure since the Civil War. Give me a freakin’ break.This prize has become a joke.
He’s done nothing for our country. He has worked to cripple it, and that is why they are giving him the Nobel Peace Prize, which has also been awarded to Yassir Arafat. I figured they would have waited until next year to give it to him, so it wouldn’t be so blatantly hollow. That would have also given them the opportunity to give it to Ahmadenijad this year. Oh well, there’s always next year for Mahmoud! His chances will skyrocket if he can grow a few mushroom clouds.
I can relate. I keep getting spam emails from some government agency at my work address. “Stimulus” announcements mostly. Fortunately my junk mail filter catches them….
So he gets the prize for nothing. Headlines should read:
Annointed One wins Nobel for Mood Swing.
That just caused coffee to be spewed all over my monitor. Just when I thought the world was coming to it’s senses about this fool something like this sets us back. Obama has done nothing to improve international relations unless you include lofty rhetoric and US bashing. Any beauty pageant finalists that blathers about her desire for world peace and end to hunger has done as much as Obama.
Maybe this was to make up for the Copenhagen Olympics fiasco. I think I will tune out the news for a few days until this insanity passes.
This whole SAVE competition sounds like an elementary school magazine sales drive. Get this many sales and you win a weepul! Yay!!
“We lack a sufficient number of senior-level administration officials ”
More levels to more closely resemble the Politburo and give more friends high paying jobs.
Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is his “emmy” for his apology tour show.
Soap’s plan:
Flat tax as a sales tax – everybody pays the same rate ans the gooberment make more money two way.
1) Income increase.
2) Less wasteful spending (budget sessions…).
Bonus: No IRS needed.
Makes the most sence so it will never happen.
The gooberments idea
IRS tax form (only 1 needed so it cuts down on paperwork)
Line one: How much did you make?
Line two: Send it in.
I have this strange vision of the “Company Man” sitting up all nite with his note pad trying to think up a “New” idea…
And GEE, win a trip to see the Anointed One.Here is my suggestion :
ALL Goverment Employees Work for FREE the Month of December. Tis the Season, lol
When I heard about Lord Barry receiving this prize, you know the same prize that was given to Arafat and Goredolph the Bloated, my whole bowel system was massively disrupted. Hey, maybe he received it for dissing the Dali Lama to appease our creditors, or maybe it is for wanting to bring the taliban to the negociating table – you know the group that harbored Al-Qaida and blew up the Buddhas. Maybe be it was for his heart felt world appology tour for the USA.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Uhh. Wow. I have no words.
Chap,
His sell out of Israel was oaky with you? I will give him credit; he did not use the word “illegal” (although it was implied) when he came right out and said “Israeli occupation”.
For the first time in her adult life, Michelle O is proud of Norwegians.
I too work for the federal government as a Dept of the Army Civilian at a Medical Center in their Thrid Party Billing Dept (more on that in a minute). We have not received these emails, but I believe it is due our email address all ending in .mil (Obama knows he does not have much love there).
As for the Third Party Billing program, if Obama care goes into effect and we see the private insurance industry disappear, I will be out of a job and our soldiers (especially the wounded warriors) will be the ones to suffer. Our program allows the military (and the VA) to bill private insurance companies for the services provided at the military hospital for retirees and dependants that also have private insurance. This allows us to bring money back to the military hospital to supplememnt the budget. In the 2009 fiscal year (which ended Sept 30th) we brough back $9.5 million back to the hospital, so you can see this is not chump change. If Obama care is passed into law our military hospital will loose this supplement to the budget and we all know that it will not be replaced by COngress.
He has hardly sold out Israel and in any case I am tired of this attitude that the quickest one to suck up to and placate Israel’s every whim is the most virtuous, but I do not want to debate that. I am just saying I find this as odd and unsubstantiated as all of you (well maybe not QUITE as much, but you get my meaning).
I have no problem with leadership soliciting ideas and acting on them but I think that this is really window dressing to pave the way for the currently advancing mega bureaucracy.
The Reagan admininistration made attempts to shrink the size of government and increase its efficiency (see the Grace Commission- to no avail due to the Democrat’s obstruction. And we are to believe that this nonsense is geared to cut waste? Please. You cut waste by cutting several hundred thousand Orwellian government jobs and by eliminating entire departments like Education.
The quickest fix for government right now would be to take Treasury’s printing department and backfill it with several thousand yards of concrete.
Agreed. What is there to debate?
Now, whenever Obama has to make a decision about using American power against an enemy, he will ask “What action would be appropriate for a Nobel/Arafat Peace Prize winner?” Things like sactions against Iran, attacking Iranian nuclear sites, or sending 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan would not meet that standard. For that reason, those things would not be done, even if they were necessary for our well-being. America is now guaranteed to become weaker, and, in turn, the world will become much more harsh.
Obama winning the Peace Prize is a slap in the face to all those before who have actually done things to foster peace. People like Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat.
What’s the big worry? They are putting them in boxes of Cracker Jacks so you too can win one!
Aaaaaargh! As a retired federal employee, reading this gave me a post-traumatic stress disorder flashback!
JD: How’s about OwlGore? I feel much more peaceful knowing global warming is under control thanks to his efforts!
Sheesh, what a joke!
At least Al Gore didn’t directly cause people to suffer like Arafat and Carter.
Economic Recovery, really? There is a bubble in the stock market-on low volume. The GM and Chrysler bankruptcies put bond holders in LAST place. A huge percentage of private of public retirement plans are in those very bonds and others. Treasury Secretary Geiter wants to recapture “unfair” gains in IRAs, 401s and Tax Sheltered Annuities. Who is going to fund capital expenditures and retooling for this coming recovery-the bonds Treasury Secretary Geiter wants to issue for those “unfair” IRAs, 401s and Tax Sheltered Annuities?
Two inches of water on the floor, rain hasn’t eased but all is well–keep whistling in the dark–it will be alright. There is no need to panic and do rash things such as shut the window and fix the leak, OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE so the sun will shine.
JD: Not now, but if cap-and-tax passes we are all going to be in a world of HURT!
Propagnada
NewSpeak
Talk without listening
Yep, we are in the midst of an early dictatorship.
hmmmmmm; woodrow wilson, teddy roosevelt, jimmy carter, and obama. one of these doesn’t fit, well sort of. obama, carter and wilson were all avowed socialists , and teddy was on his bad days. i guess this just confirms that the nobel peace prize is a communist award for being stupid enough to believe you can change human nature.
some enterprising spammer needs to take up a real cause rather than filling our email inboxes with junk…lol
You ever listen to him talk?
No, second place wins a night with David Letterman.
hmmmm did I see no place where “they” were gonna implement any of the cost savings?
But, just wait till some special interest group finds out that they were “cost saved” out. It will be right back in.
At least emails can be recycled safely.
Yep! Obama is going to keep growing the size of the government until they figure out how to save some money.
I can’t believe they didn’t give Obama the Nobel Prize for Economics! Obviously just another example of racism.