Posted on 01/14/2019 8:53:36 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the president’s next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.
Federal employees are starting to feel the strain of the shutdown. I am one of them. But for the sake of our nation, I hope it lasts a very long time, till the government is changed, and can never return to its previous form.
The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.
On an average day roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them, and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don’t feel like doing what they are told, they don’t.
Why would they? We can’t fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position, some do this in the same position for more than a decade.
They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands; administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. “Process is your friend” is what delusional civil servants tell themselves. Even senior officials must gain approval from every rank across their department, other agencies and work units for basic administrative chores.
Process is what we serve, process keeps us safe, process is our core value. It takes a lot of people to maintain the process. Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process. Then there are the 5 percent with moxy (career managers). At any given time they can change, clarify or add to the process — even to distort or block policy counsel for the president.
Mick Mulvaney
It does sound like something he'd say. LOL.
I fully agree. I think the deadwood percentage is closer to 85%. I have worked with these worthless scumbags.
Why? Is President Trump opposed to "smoking out the Resistance"?
I was going to post the exact same comment. Mulvaney loves him some shutdown.
Hell yeah
No, it’s just more dramatic and more powerful if you don’t know exactly who’s writing it.
Assume it’s Mulvaney, which I have no idea whether it is or not, but just assume it is. Then it’s easy enough to just say, well this is Mulvaney being Mulvaney.
But what if it’s one of the more normal, somewhat sane cabinet officials? Then it could be a bigger deal. So, best to keep it anonymous. There’s a lot of administration officials who are not in fact particularly influential in ANYTHING, so their anonymous opinion is more newsworthy than their signed one.
LOL.
Sounds like a classic Pareto Distribution.
Demand it all... keep the government shut down... it's the American people's turn...
Great cartoon.
“We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem.” – Quote Attributed to Chesty Puller, USMC
“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time” – Lewis B. Chesty Puller, USMC
“They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away from us now!”
Time to remember some history and great leaders.
http://www.military-quotes.com/chesty-puller.htm
“As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck”
They are getting paid all of it, when the Democrats agree with
the American people and fund the wall.
The wall is a good thing. It will drastically reduce the invasion of illegals to the American people.
It’s the Democrats that are the cause of the Shut down.
The Federal government is a perfect example of The Peter Principle, writ large. Couple that with The Three Laws of Murphy and you have the problem described in a nutshell.
Smoking out the traitors might have been effective before the election, but not now. By 2020, this issue will be forgotten.
That was my first thought.
And just think, there are 50 states and a gaggle of municipalities, etc. that have similar “staffing.” It’s too bad we can’t shut it all down long enough to kill off 85% of all of them.
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