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How to Stop ‘Coup of the Bureaucrats’: Cut the Departments
Breitbart - Big Government ^ | 2-1-2017 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 02/01/2017 10:21:00 AM PST by Sir Napsalot

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To: nickedknack; TBP

IIRC, didn’t JFK allow federal unions via executive order? Hmmm.


61 posted on 02/01/2017 12:19:08 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Cut the entire department, offer an Early Out and make it clear if they don’t take it they’ll wish they did, like they could be sent up to one hundred miles away, then create a new department with a new name and additional responsibilities so it’s not the same thing, and start hiring again and know who you’re hiring.


62 posted on 02/01/2017 12:20:13 PM PST by Ciexyz (Happy days are here again, with Trump/Pence!)
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To: TBP
In the service, malcontent officers & enlisted were given bottom-of-the-ladder jobs that nobody wanted to do. With lots of junk extra duties and responsibilities.

And if that didn't work, they were sent to the worst, most distant assignments possible to get rid of them.

Tell the guy that's trouble at the EPA, that global cooling seems to be coming back, so his new workplace is in Nome, Alaska so he can be close to the problem when he studies it.

63 posted on 02/01/2017 12:25:14 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: Sir Napsalot

I worked for the federal bureaucracy. No need to fire them. Have the head person create alternative positions in the basement of the building with a desk and no phone and keep paying them. If you can’t fire them, you can put them on ice.


64 posted on 02/01/2017 12:28:39 PM PST by Tom Bombadil
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65 posted on 02/01/2017 12:33:14 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: marron
Yup, CO2 as a pollutant? What we exhale? What, in fact, is required for Plant Life to exist on the planet?

That's the definition of an out of control monster.

Smog so thick that it can be cut with a knife.... yup, that needs regulation. But not by-products of natural processes.

66 posted on 02/01/2017 12:53:19 PM PST by wbill
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To: TigerClaws
10% across the board cut. Ax the new (Obama) hires first.

Seniority will take care of the "New Hires". Chances are few Obama "New Employees" will have Veteran Preference!

67 posted on 02/01/2017 1:32:11 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Sir Napsalot

It is not a “coup” that is in progress. It is like a mud flow, apparently slow and inexorable, but really pretty rapid and still inexorable. Cleaning out and circumscribing the Agencies and Departments is, in the long run, futile. Their emaciated husks will return full of vigor and oppression so long as the framework still exists. They have to be abolished and all their employees returned to civilian life with no severance pay, no further bonuses at all. They, down to the lowliest sinecure clerk, should not be rewarded by retirement or any other valuable gifts from the taxpayers for their service to Leviathan. Exempted should be the original four Departments and none other.


68 posted on 02/01/2017 1:41:12 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Sir Napsalot
When huge outcries rise up, then boot these careerists out the door, only retain those that 'get with the program' (so to speak). < P>Then, 6 months later, ABOLISH the Agency.
69 posted on 02/01/2017 1:42:29 PM PST by arthurus
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To: TigerClaws

Don’t cut, except as preliminary to Uproot.


70 posted on 02/01/2017 1:43:40 PM PST by arthurus
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To: TigerClaws
10% across the board cut.

Anything less than 100% leaves that piece of root that will grow again into a mighty Smilax vine that will quickly entangle and choke everything in its rapidly expanding purview. Excise it altogether.

71 posted on 02/01/2017 1:46:26 PM PST by arthurus
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To: ballplayer

Is their paperwork for beneficiaries up to date? Send them a timely memo to jog their faculties.


72 posted on 02/01/2017 5:26:38 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Daveinyork

Could take years waiting for their opening for litigation, were enough sent walking.


73 posted on 02/01/2017 5:29:36 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: wbill

Farm them out to assist with China’s air quality!


74 posted on 02/01/2017 5:41:03 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Jacquerie

Something Trump ought to target with an executive order of his own.


75 posted on 02/01/2017 7:00:47 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Not only that, they can use the JFK trick. When he didn’t like what he was getting from the Bureau of the Budget (whcih had a lot of Republicans in it). he had it abolished and immediately replaced by the Office of Management and Budget. They stocked OMB with Democrats.


76 posted on 02/01/2017 7:02:23 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Cobra64

For starters. I have a lot more I’d like to see gone.

President Reagan tried to get rid of EPA. Do you know who he hired to do it?


77 posted on 02/01/2017 7:03:35 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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