Posted on 11/22/2016 2:17:21 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Federal employees face a long overdue reckoning
Give this some thought: We are a nation based on a system of federalism, which means that largely sovereign states are united under a limited federal government that performs only certain essential functions - those enumerated in the Constitution - and leaves all functions not so enumerated to the states by law.
That is the idea. So how did we get to the point where a federal government supposedly so limited has 2.1 million employees? And how did that group of federal employees become such a privileged class that they're almost impossible to fire - even if they're demonstrably incompetent - and they enjoy pay and benefits that would make most people working in the private sector blush?
Wanna really make govt and academic libtard heads explode?
Trump tells them he’ll replace all the govt workers with illegals.
Libs will want that wall and deportations to begin so fast...
“Trump tells them he’ll replace all the govt workers with illegals.”
what a great idea. eager and motivated Vs. porn surfing and entitled.
lol
The basic reason it happened is that states were no protecting the rights of its citizens who demanded federal intervention.
Then there are the rights the states willingly abrogated to the feds.
What is described as a fedgov power grab is more accurately the states surrender of power even when not asked to do so. They don’t want you blaming them when the shtf but that other government in Dc.
Just arrest Lois Lerner and Koskinen.
Their squawking will take down the entire Obama gang. That’s who ordered them to do it.
And then let the rest of the bureaucrats know that’s what’s coming.
They’ll leave under their own steam.
“Trump tells them he’ll replace all the govt workers with illegals.”
Better yet offshore all their jobs to India.
Bureaucrats. Bloodsuckers and tapeworms. The more of those desk pilots Trump can unemploy, the better.
“replace all the govt workers with illegals.”
AND, force the outgoing fired American workers to TRAIN their replacements! /s
Ordered? I don't think so. They were not even requested that they do it. They just needed a wink and a nod and they were cut loose.
“Trump tells them he’ll replace all the govt workers with illegals.”
I love that!
They are effectively the 4th branch (Regulatory) of gov’t.
and certain departments and services are over-represented by a certain class of people
HAHAHAHAHA
About 12 to 15 years ago (can’t remember exactly) it took a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to allow the U.S. Postal Service to fire a part-time probationary employee who received a bad performance review. The USPS employee union fought the termination tooth and nail, claimed racial discrimination and other baloney.
It took many, many years for the case to wind its way through arbitration, the federal court systems and finally ended up before THE SURPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. It was only because of a formal ruling of the SCOTUS that this employee was fired for cause.
I will never forget reading about this when a small news blurb appeared on the internet—I found the story either here on Free Republic, Drudge Report or Lucianne.com, can’t remember exactly which site. But I do remember the story, it was so outrageous.
With the Franklin Roosevelt appointments to the Supreme court in the 30’s, it was an unspoken, unholy alliance.
The Federal Government, the Courts, and the States all got enormous increases in power, taken from the people.
The States gave up a little of their increased power to the Feds for a share of Federal tax dollars.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States [emphasis added]: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Some of this happened in the 20’s, as “progressivism” was rising.
Some of the power the States got:
The power to regulate wages and employment.
The power to regulate land use (zoning).
The Courts gained the power to prevent nearly all jury nullification (by aggressively not informing juries)
The Supreme Court could now choose what cases to hear.
Jobs that no Americans want to do
I can think of at least 546 people (plus the rest of the federal judges and all the cabinet secretaries) who need to lose a lot of their special privileges.
100 Spent-a-turds
435 Crap-a-sentatives
9 Supreme Constitution Twisters (well 8 for now)
POTUS/VPOTUS
This is a Constitutional Republic and we do not want a monarchy.
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