Posted on 10/27/2023 11:30:11 AM PDT by cotton1706
Two Democratic congressmen announced on Thursday they would not seek another congressional term in 2024, opening seats in Maryland and North Carolina. Rep. John Sarbanes (MD), who served 18 years in the chamber over the course of nine terms, said he plans to return to nonprofit work. “For some time now, I have found myself drawn back to that kind of work—wanting to explore the many opportunities to serve that exist outside of elected office,” he said in a statement. Rep. Jeff Jackson (NC) announced that he would instead run for state attorney general, a decision that comes in the wake of gerrymandering by North Carolina Republicans that all but guaranteed he would not have won re-election in his district. “I’m running for attorney general, and I’m going to use that job to go after political corruption,” he said in a video on Thursday.
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Non-profit is a tax strategy, not a mission statement.
The Democrats see the writing on the wall, and losing an election is a sure fire way to make sure you do NOT become a highly paid lobbyist.
The Democrats are also defending 20 senate seats in 2024, and they could lose their ass bigly!
If we stay focused and on point, the 2024 election could turn the direction of our entire government in one fell election swoop.
Dear Lord please.
“I’m running for attorney general, and I’m going to use that job to go after Republicans”
Fixed it
Extremely profitable. Before I retarred the company I worked for had an annual United Way shakedown. As it turn out the Atlanta head of United Way gets $650,000 as an annual salary. Not bad for a nonprofit. The only charitable organization I gave regularly to was the Salvation Army, but alas they went unapologetically woke so now all of my previous charitable giving is split between the NRA, GOA, and NAGR.
We have term limits. They’re called elections.
The GOP should have at least 3 House members out of MD. Western MD, Balto Suburbs and the Eastern Shore.
It would have to include bureaucrats and staffers, too. We need to be rid of civil service and return to patronage that begins and ends with a Presidential term. People need to sacrifice to work in DC, not go there to make their millions.
I disagree - patronage was even worse for corruption and incompetence. I believe we need term limits on the elected and a similar ‘up or out’ policy in civil service, which should be run along more military lines.
The corruption and incompetence now is an epidemic. These are armies of permanent leftist classes to cripple and destroy any Conservative agenda.
With respect to patronage, this wouldn’t explicitly be like the 19th century where any office seeker off the street petitions their local elected official for a gubmint job. This would be more professional individuals who come in explicitly with an administration (and loyal to said admin, so you don’t have the bureaucratic armies sabotaging GOP admins) and they depart at the end. No one lasts for more than 4-8 years and has to return to the private sector at the end.
That has additional problems before you look at continuity issues. You turn government into an even more political animal, inclined to suppress the losers of the last election and prone to be even more weaponized. Bad idea.
Well put, also no absolutely no federal unions!
One of our neighbors is the executive director of a non profit regional food pantry. She always touted her concern for the poor and we all thought she was a volunteer doing it out of the goodness of her heart.
We just found out a few months ago that her salary is $180,000 per year.
Goodness of her heart my a$$.
Cleaning out the Federal Civil Service every four years would be a disaster. Imagine if every four years you fired all your experienced Department of Defense engineers, logisticians, depot technicians and had to hire new people who had no idea how to perform some of these complicated jobs. Military readiness would go into the toilet and forget about modernization efforts, they would never get off of a drawing board.
Most nonprofits do more harm than good. If it ‘matters’ and works, people will do the task without tax favors. Time to end tax benefits for these folks... all of ‘em.
We’re already so far past “disaster” and well into the realm of bureaucratic tyranny. DC votes like it’s North Korea, and it shows. That has got to end, and ridding civil service is top of the list. If you want to make specific exemptions for individual jobs relating to defense is one thing, but the vast majority of paper-pushing, agenda-pushing Globalist-Marxist bureaucrat hacks who want to grow this malignant cancer, has got to go. Entire departments need to be deleted. The fact that no new administration since Harding in 1921 has cut the federal government in any appreciable way is quite telling.
THere are a lot of good folks in public service, but it's not even a majority and I would put the numbers at more like 20-30% and that is generous. One of the issues is that the list of skills above have been outsorced to contractors so the feds are mostly bureaucrats overseeing and administering contracts, and the feds are supported by 1 or 2-1 with support service contractors who augment the velocity of assignment and tasking of adminimstrative chores to keep teh system clogged with adminstrative chores rather than doing real work.
Try cutting foreign aid. Its really difficult because the aid goes through contractors to USAID [a state department agency] before it goes anywhere so that the swamp can get its vigourish off the top.
Contractors are a necessity but they have a terrible track record of hosing the government. Remember when you hire a contractor they will not perform any task not in their contract unless the contract is amended and additional $$$$ flow to them. A government civil servant has to perform “other duties as required” so you can get more out of them.
Defense companies will sell the government whatever they have developed regardless of sustainability or compatibility. It is the job of civil servant government engineers and logisticians to make sure that when possible, the taxpayer is actually getting some bang for their buck and that systems have longevity. It is also the job of government civil servants to maintain and repair many of these systems and they do so at a small fraction of the price and usually far, far faster than contractors perform that work. My defense experience was that sending an asset to a government depot for repair returned that asset to the field in a month or two when a contractor was lucky to get it back to us within six months and often almost a year.
Some of the bad behavior we have seen lately (IRS & Defense info leaks) have been done by contractors not civil servants. What they need to do is start whittling down the legions of Senior Executive Service and excepted service positions. After that then they should take a look at rank and file civil servants. But just cutting them without any real thought as to what they do and who would do it instead (and how much that would cost) is really short sighted.
Note that Fake News outlets never accuse demonRATS of gerrymandering. Instead they praise them for their dedication to inclusion, social justice, and equal rights for demonRAT constituencies.
Who then hire support service contractors to do all the stuff the feds not only won't do, but which shouldn't even be done in an effective organization. Part of this is driven by metrics based perfromance compensation which incentivises inefficiency rather than needed outcomes.
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