The new Trump administration has tasked its “landing teams” with reducing spending and staff in some departments by as much as 10 percent of their budget and 20 percent reduction in employees.
The hoped for savings are expected to go towards rebuilding the military, tax cuts and other campaign promises like a Southern border wall.
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MAGA!
Afraid that the ‘crats will lay down on the job and get nothing done? Well, just pay their bosses for RESULTS.
Introduce the alien concept (to the Gummint) of a meritocracy, where department heads get paid on the basis of how they actually perform. Let them share in end-of-year unspent budget savings, instead of going on a spending binge to make sure ALL their budget is spent. (Now, if you don’t spend you FY allocations, they get a budget cut next year!)
Cut the worthless “programs” within the worthless Departments – if it isn’t specifically authorized (indeed, mandated) by Congress – shut it down.
If it IS mandated by Congress, lobby to have Congress SHUT IT DOWN.
All done in the full light of day, with votes on record – no more late-night, back-door, dirty-dick deals.
Percent-across-the-board-cuts usually accomplish nothing. The Gov’t is loath to fire the incompetent, knowing that they’d never find a comparably paying job, and that they’re old College chums. Incompetence and imbecility are more or less united in the Agencies, particularly in the GS-15 and above ranks. Most Managers don’t want anyone near enough to their rank to recognize their stupidity – so they hire and promote morons. Usually, it’s a pyramid with the dumbest fuck at the top – not always, but enough to make the whole thing look bad.
izlamo delenda est …
common sense in washingtom at last. someone must have taken bizness 101
(D)rain (T)he (S)wamp = (D)onald (T)rump (S)logan.
LOVE IT!
There are no set asides needed for tax cuts. Cutting taxes by itself raises government income. Look at Ronald Reagan’s time in California and the White House. Taxes were cut and state and Federal revenues increased dramatically!
Paying for tax cuts is from the dumbicrapic cesspool.
Let’s start by releasing everyone 0bama hired last night.
Tell Agency/Department heads to figure out how to immediately make the cuts. If they’re not up to the job they’ll be replaced by someone who will. There are whole bureaucracies that do not need to exist. Do we really need over 100 different programs to feed the poor?
Keep cutting until homes in D C sell for $150 per square foot.
10% now and another 10% every six months until further notice.
Explain it to them like “musical chairs”.
Continue until DC real estate prices drop to 1973 levels.
“It was not the tycoons of big business, it was not the working classes, it was the intellectuals who reversed the trend toward political freedom and revived the doctrines of the absolute State, of totalitarian government rule, of the government’s right to control the lives of the citizens in any manner it pleases. This time, it was not in the name of the “divine right of kings,” but in the name of the divine right of the masses. The basic principle was the same: the right to enforce at the point of a gun the moral doctrines of whoever happens to seize control of the machinery of government.” – Ayn Rand
Much work to be done, God’s speed for Donald Trump’s team, good hunting!
additionaly, the political class should not be exempted from any law imposed on citizens
I hope the staff to be cut are the do-nothings and deadweights, not the ones who actually serve. In two Federal Buildings I’ve been in in different cities, most of the employees were affirmative action hires and their “efficiency” was execrable. Nobody was in a hurry to do anything but the minorities wouldn’t even recognize your existence. Aside from the fact I’d be unlikely to hire any of them in the first place, they’d only behave like that to customers once before I fired them for cause. I’m sure Greetings From Yonkers has much more experience with these types.
Speaking of which, does anyone know how she’s doing?
Hmm…10-20% is a good start for 1/20/2017.
On Monday, 1/23/2017 another 10-20%….then lather, rinse, repeat.
It has been said and it is spot on…there are WHOLE DEPARTMENTS that can simply be defunded and liquidated. No fuss, no muss, just send them home. Bye, bye!
I’ll see your 20% and raise you 50%.