Because “Parasite” doesn’t look good on a resumé.
Like you, I never heard of Katherine Archuleta before this week, when the bureaucracy threw her under the bus for that big OPM hack. I hope to never hear of her again, and there’s no reason to believe I ever will. There’s absolutely nothing exceptional about her career arc. That’s why she chills me so: There’s so many of her.
Director Archuleta began her career in public service as a teacher in the Denver public school system. She left teaching to work as an aide to Denver Mayor Federico Peña. When Mayor Peña became Secretary of Transportation during the Clinton Administration, Archuleta continued her public service as his Chief of Staff. Later, Peña was appointed to head the Department of Energy and Archuleta served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Secretary.
After the Clinton Administration, she went back to local government and became a Senior Policy Advisor to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
Archuleta spent the first two years of the Obama Administration serving as the Chief of Staff at the Department of Labor to Secretary Hilda Solis.
This woman has apparently never had a real job, is clearly unqualified to hold even the most humble of them, and would likely collapse like a cheap chair if forced to support herself. Yet somehow she is one of our masters.
And we let this happen. Over and over and over.
But Joel! She’s a Latina. And a woman. So of course she’s qualified for any job in the federal bureaucracy. As to stupidly letting the Chinese grab all the fedgov’s personnel and security clearance records, well, you know the answer to that problem: MORE FUNDING.
There. Solved everything for you.
Oh. But as to “we” allowing these fools, knaves, and eejits to become our masters … what do you mean “we,” white man?
And she supports LGBT diversity, besides, and considers it a major part of her mission.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/promising-practices/2015/06/lgbt-pride-month-celebrating-every-member-federal-family/114502/
You’re clearly micro aggressing from your position of white male rape-culture privilege to criticise this poor victimized woman.
Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
By “we,” Claire, I just naturally assumed you’d understand that I meant “all those other people out there.” I for one am pure as the driven snow.
Now you point it out, though, this is funny as hell. At least now we know what was taking up so much of her precious time that she didn’t have time to protect all those personnel records she was directly responsible for.
There’s that word “service” again. I think it doesn’t mean what she thinks it means. Or…maybe it does…
When my wife is bitten by a mosquito or some other parasite, she does not blame me because I let parasites exist (not yet anyway). So it might be a bit much to say that “we let this happen.”
People get to live their lives as they please. That’s what liberty is about. The fact that parasites can and do exist in this environment does not mean those free people deserve blame. Blame comes as a result of a fuck-up. Just living one’s life does not qualify as a fuck-up.
Now on the other hand, obedience on the part of people, that’s definitely a fuck-up.
http://strike-the-root.com/compromise
Actually, this is a very difficult subject, and one that deserves some attention and discussion among freedom-lovers. My opinion here could be wrong…
Oh, well, this explains a lot. Turns out the OPM gave root access to all those files to contractors in Argentina and … wait for it … China.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/encryption-would-not-have-helped-at-opm-says-dhs-official/
“Turns out the OPM gave root access to all those files to contractors in Argentina”
Yes, contractors. As much as we love to skewer government and government employees, this is where willy-nilly “privatization” can get you. Just because it’s private enterprise, there is no guarantee that any given contractor automatically does a job cheaper or better.
Well, I sure as hell do skewer the government bureaucrats who made such bonehead moves as not encrypting critical files on millions of people + giving access to the Chinese.
Ben, you speak as if you think somebody around here believe’s “privatization” is a meaningful and worthwhile concept when in fact it’s only a matter of government parceling out its functions to private vendors, which it then pays with tax money and (allegedly) supervises. I don’t think anybody outside of government considers that to be any sort of genuine move toward freedom.
On the contrary, I suspect most people around here are well aware that that type of faux privatization has only made matters worse (e.g. prisons operated by corporations; IRS contract tax collectors).
believes
no apostrophe, please
oh, I’m so embarrassed
We’ll let it go this time, Claire… 🙂
Gotta love the final sentence from the article . . .
“As a long-time public servant, she is a champion of Federal employees.”
Yeah . . . I’ll just bet she is.
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“Privatization” is just another euphemism for “fascism”…