Federal employees are anything but neutral administrators of the law. Fully 95 percent of donations from those working for agencies went to Hillary Clinton in 2016. And a web of civil service laws built over the past century effectively inures them to the consequences of defying the elected and appointed officials tasked by our political process with captaining the ship of state.
It takes up to two years to fire a federal worker, even those convicted of felonies while on the job. Four different appeal routes and a flowcharts worth of avenues prevent most managers from even trying to rid themselves of incompetent or outright insubordinate employees.
Drain the swamp!
It can be done. I have seen what is known as a ‘responsive personnel system’ get rid of whoever significantly annoyed management in NAVAIR. One upper level civil service type said ‘We win even if we lose. The guy will go bankrupt from legal fees, lose his house and probably his marriage and spend several years fighting to get his job back. If we lose he will be a pariah and will spend however long he works as someone management deliberately gives exhausting and pointless tasks to and who constantly spies on and snoops after. So even if we lose we win.’
I know first hand of a Federal manager who, in front of several individuals, advocated for someone assassinating Trump.
A bureaucracy was designed to serve a
prussian monarch, a dictator, or authoritarian. The so called “spoils” system was better. A president should be able to fill the executive branch with people who intend to execute his policies....rather than “execute” his policies.
These are Party Organs of corrupt democrats.
Real Americans are absolutely right to assume that federal agencies are against us. That is why we voted for President Trump, and that is why they are fighting so hard to stop him.
These government employees are breaking their contract with the American people.
The government employees complained that there was too much political patronage in the government agencies.
So the American people went along with the government union and all the protections that make it nearly impossible to fire a government employee.
In return, the government employees would stay out of politics.
The government employees have their protections and the Democrat Party use those protections as cover to attack Republicans.
If the deal is over, then the deal is over.
Fire all the government employees.
I guess I have to see I disagree a bit from my experience.
I’ve been a federal employee for 25 years and therefore have worked under both Democrat and Republican presidents. The ship turns very slowly either way, but my supervisor (and upper management)—trust me—obey the directive of those above them at the Presidential appointee level (ie Cabinet head on down). Long time civil servants sometimes do refer to them as the “Christmas help” though—as they come and go.
One of the problems is that Trump did not clean house when he took office. I worked at one Federal agency and was flabbergasted that no change took place when Trump took office; in fact it became even worse than under Obama’s admin. The management and policies was awash in Liberal/leftist dogma. For example, the philosophy of the management was that the greatest thing that a work force can achieve is diversity. Having a diverse workforce is more important than having qualified people. Also the management was much more liberal than the workforce. By the way, everything also became more top-down and it was difficult to influence decision making at the top. Security also became a top priority, with a unreasonable portion of the budget going to security, which also could be used to better control the workforce. I’m sure this style must have extended to our national security agencies as well!
self perpetuating public sector unions are the enemy of free people.
Move the offices to the Heartland USA
Who needs to fire anyone? Just “suspend” them WITH pay...indefinitely. Deny them access to the building and change the password and encryption keys. Force THEM to sue and bleed $ on lawyers to REGAIN access. By the time they do the policy they tried to stop will have been implemented. Meanwhile ignore any and all judicial orders, citing “national security” or “Patriot Act provisions” to deflect.
Imagine the kind of person who would be drawn like a magnet to the magnitude of power concentrated in a place like Washington.
Imagine the self-serving activities in which he or she would engage.
Imagine the corruption--its extent--its magnitude.
Now imagine an honest man bursting onto the scene shining the Light of Truth!
This is Donald Trump in Washington.
From the viewpoint of the corrupt, they MUST stop him--no matter what the cost!
And they have tried everything since he first threatened "to clean up Washington! They have openly called for his assassination. An army of "investigators," lawyers, "whistleblowers," politicians, so-called "journalists," activists, false witnesses, volunteers, and anyone else who's willing spent years searching for something--anything--that might stop him--and could find Nothing. Their latest plot is "impeachment." NOTHING has worked!
NOTHING has worked!
Trump is the most squeaky clean President in history!
Especially the CIA. It seems that the CIA spends all its time investigating the President.
We’ve known our government is severely broken with a lot of bad actors getting paid good money working against us from the inside.
The big question is how to clean house and kick these asshats to the curb permanently so they can’t be hired back by a commiecrat President.
And God bless him—he has gone where no one else in the country was both willing and able to go.
But half of this issue he brought on himself, by bringing in his liberal SIL and daughter and listening to them and the GOPe in staffing his top tier with Never Trumpers and not bothering to fill in the middle tier (of political mid-level managers).
989 days and counting.