“Good fences make good neighbors” — a proverb we are all familiar with. It is a saying which recognizes with suspicion and realism the inherently evil nature of man in his natural state.
It draws up, encapsulates and summarizes well the philosophical lineage of Hobbes, Rousseau and Locke concerning the distinction between Man’s State of Nature and the contractual empowerment achieved by the constraints of agreement, laws, civil society and the collective powers gained and applied with the rise of a government, state, and nation.
Fences establish the first border separating anarchy from civil society. It recognizes the line which cannot be crossed; the restraint which is imposed in favor of both sides; and reduces the tensions resulting from misunderstanding and misapprehension. Laws do the same — they provide the acceptable demarcations and impose a standard and criteria for decision-making.
The “fences” in a Federal Disability Retirement case are comprised of the statutes, regulations and case-laws handed down both from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, as well as from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals — which constrains and restricts the otherwise unfettered and capricious decisions render by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Contact a FERS Disability Retirement Attorney who specializes in OPM Disability Retirement Law, and make sure and impose the necessary fences upon OPM in a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Lawyer
OPM Disability Retirement, Et Cetera… 