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This op-ed published in Politico is intended to sound the alarm about President Donald Trump fundamentally destroying the system of career civil service agents in Washington DC, and it’s also a little funny.
I mean, if you built an echo-chamber ideological in magnitude and scale, then self-isolated inside the DC beltway barrier, this would be exactly the type of alarm to follow. More
I would love for Trump to rid of of those dead beats. But I don’t think he would have that power. Get rid of civil service and the unions.
We’re literally enslaved by corrupt elected officials and corrupt bureaucrats and their goons at the armed alphabet agencies.
WE ARE BANKRUPT. We cannot afford all those expensive, useless, unnecessary bureaucrats. Time to scale the government back to bare essentials, start paying down our debt. For real entertainment, ask the employees who is frivolous, useless, unessential, and can be let go. HOO doggies would that be fun! Start with the department of communist education.
There should be entire agencies on the chopping block. EPA, DHS, Dept of Energy and Dept of Education to start with.
Trump should bring Vivek in as ‘Czar of eliminations’. He knows what to cut.
And Rand Paul and the new Argentine president Milei can help with suggestions.
^^^ And the Dept. of Energy. And the Dept. of Commerce. And the State Department. And the Dept. of Health and Human Services. And Dept. of Homeland Security… Oh, God. I can’t type any more.
grifter/poc “jobs” @ risk? oh no!
Every time an alarm bell rings, a bureaucrat loses their wings….
@ General Malaise
whatever you do, don’t leave out the Dept of Education
boron – wholeheartedly agree. I left it off because it was Wylie1’s first choice (above). I also would like to summarily ‘lay off’ at least 100,000 Federal employees for starters. Of course, that would help crap the inflated economy – which needs about a million laxative tablets to dump all the shit that’s been piling up under Biden!
“Trump should bring Vivek in as ‘Czar of eliminations’. He knows what to cut.”
Our one and only IOTWr Czar of Defenestration would say his name was meant for such a thing.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defenestration
defenestration
noun
1. the action of throwing someone out of a window
Example: death by defenestration has a venerable history
2. the action or process of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority
Example: that victory resulted in Churchill’s own defenestration by the war-weary British electorate
problem is: everyone talks about it; nobody does anything about it. We learned in 2020 that we can’t vote our way out of it, they control the polling machinery.
Anybody have the plans for Monseiur Joseph-Ignace’s apparatus?
@ General Malaise – it won’t crap the economy, because none of those jobs produced a whit of value, and in fact some of them likely were counterproductive. Even paying a handsome severance would save a ton of money within the year.
Milei knows that. And Argentina will prove it.
Not if Trump is “Cut” first.
If this, if dat, your fantasy just might get nipped in da bud.
Start with the intelligence Alphabets first, including FBI.
Scatter the survivors across the nation and out of DC.
DC needs to become a wasteland beyond the waste land it currently is.
Happy Last Year Patriots
Uhhh, don’t keep any of the ATF, about half or more of the FBI and half or more of the DOJ can pack their bags.
Go back to see how big the Federal government was after Calvin Coolidge decimated DC back in the 1920s and adjust today’s numbers to match the same ratio w/r/t the population (except for the military). Focus on eliminating alphabet agencies which really don’t result in anything positive for the populous. Make sure the bloated leadership of these agencies get the axe first.
Remember stories about the ROARING 20’s? We could repeat that this century!
Side story: Once a woman bet President Coolidge (Silent Cal) she could make him say more than two words. He looked her in the eye and said “You loose”.
Jethro, it’s quite possible that Calvin Coolidge is THE BEST PRESIDENT we’ve ever had.
Cancel the CFR thus no place to put new regulations.
I wonder how many bureaucrats AI could replace without anyone noticing other than the various government services being provided more efficiently?
^^^ Let’s see how fast AI learns to pay “itself”!!!
Start by firing 95% of the workforce. Then let’s see.
Ban civil service labor unions too.
Cutting the federal non-work force would not hurt the economy, except the local one to DC.