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Project Veritas just released its latest undercover video, “Unmasking the Deep State.” This first video focuses on a State Department employee who is both a poster child for the Deep State and a perfect example of why the federal bureaucracy needs serious reform. Providentially, there is new legislation being considered in Congress that would do just that: the Merit Act (H.R. 559).
The Merit Act would greatly streamline the process for firing employees who are poor performers, insubordinate, or otherwise engaged in misconduct. Since the election of President Trump, the bureaucracy, including numerous holdovers from the Obama administration, has been engaged in an unprecedented level of obstruction, leaks, and sabotage. These bad actors call it “resistance.” FBI and Department of Justice misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe and the Clinton email scandal is only the most visible component.
This is nothing new. President Bush faced similar resistance from the bureaucracy, and going as far back as 1986, the Reagan administration had to contend with a State Department relentlessly working to derail his foreign policy. In the intervening period, we have been treated to stories of almost incomprehensible incompetence and corruption in the federal bureaucracy.
Recall, for example, the case of John Beale, the EPA’s “climate expert,” who continued to collect a salary for 18 months after he retired and scammed the government for 13 years. He collected a salary higher than legal limits; took unearned bonuses; awarded himself a handicapped parking pass though he wasn’t handicapped; and was absent for months at a time, falsely claiming to be a CIA agent working other assignments. Then-president Obama appointed Beale’s wife, Nancy Kete, to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The pair own houses in Arlington, Va. and Cape Cod. Beale was sentenced to 32 months and fined – a rare conviction, though the EPA waited three years before charging him. Beale is paying off his fine over time, using his government retirement annuity, which he still receives.
Right now, I just want that bitch Allison Hrabar to be waiting tables at MXDC Cocina Mexicana, while she awaits trial for the numerous federal crimes she’s committed.
She’s been “under review” by the DOJ since June for her restaurant ambush of Kirstjen Nielsen. O’Keefe just wrapped up the case. Fire and prosecute. Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. Right, Saul?
I scanned that proposal and the problem is that supervisors are tasked with the authority to fire employees through a process.
The supervisors aren’t doing anything about these people now, why should we believe this new law will make them any more responsible?
We need a few of these guys…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OvQIGDg4I
All government employees should be “at will” employees. That, and they should not be allowed collective bargaining. The taxpayers pay their salaries, and the taxpayers should have the reassurance the incompetent, or the insubordinate, spend the end of their work day walking down the road, and kicking cans.
Fire, hell yes. It comes right after ready, aim, FIRE
The Supreme Court gave government workers a “property interest” in their jobs once off initial probation. Which kicks in Constitutional due process protections before they can be deprived of that “property”. Another reason we need Kavanaugh and one or two more conservative justices on the Court.
How are the admissions by the federal employees in the Project Veritas vids NOT considered seditious or treasonous? These people are a cancer in the Republic and you know that there are many more like them. Notice also that these are young people– the steady socialist indoctrination at our institutions of “learning” is readily apparent. I’m with moochoman on this.
We don’t need more firings. We need more prosecutions!
Federal employees have it really good and over time many of them develop an incredible entitlement mentality. Inability to fire dead weight is bad for org performance and isnt fair to taxpayers or to competent fed employees.
You know a shitload of’m are antifa