iCarly is losing it.
She would leave empty seats on the Supreme Court, she would hire no staff if she won the White House....
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This isn’t a new idea. You don’t “cut” federal workforce, you let it cut itself through attrition. Given how hard it is to actually fire a federal worker, this is the most reasonable way to cut the size of the federal workforce over time.
Well she has said she would have voted for Sonia Sotomayor for the court,and it was a mistake for Ted Cruz to filibuster Obamacare
Actually, I hear this not as a direct one-for-one replacement based on some specific position but as one of total numbers across the entire government workforce - which I think I’d agree with. I’m not a supporter of hers, but I can understand what she’s saying.
To me, this would force the government to decide what part of its workforce it values the most and make them go through the actions to counteract the attrition of needed functions. To me this would begin to erase the “government job entitlement” practice that has happened these last few decades.
I think you are losing it, if you think she would not appoint judges, etc...
She is talking about shrinking the size of government through attrition. I thought as conservatives we all wanted to make government smaller?
A president cannot eliminate entire departments established by law on his/her own - Congress has to do that. But what he/she CAN do on their own is determine the level of staffing for each department, up to the level that Congress will fund. In other words, Congress can appropriate the money for 20,000 new IRS agents, but the president doesn't have to actually hire them. Congress can appropriate the money to replace retiring federal workers, but the president doesn't have to actually replace them.
It is actually a very practical way of shrinking the government that does not rely on getting past any Dem filibusters against "cutting" government spending. It also skirts the problems you run into with Civil Service protections that make it difficult to fire or lay off federal workers. Whether she would actually follow through is an open question, but the idea itself is actually a good one.