Posted on 01/15/2019 8:52:14 AM PST by Jonty30
Has Trump suckered the Democrats and deep state into a trap
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Interesting.
Very interesting.
Maybe all the Senior Executive Service people Obama appointed could be laid off.
Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump Federal workers could be laid off permanently, and all those union dues being shoveled to Democrats would come to a screeching halt.
Billions of dollars to liberal colleges, leftist organizations, sanctuary cities and other pet liberal causes will stop! Gosh, how would we ever cope if the Department of Education wasn't there to push its leftist agendas on our children?
The five richest counties in the U.S. are around Washington D.C. What if hundreds of thousands of homes are foreclosed, hundreds of thousands of vehicles are repossessed? Maybe those richest counties will empty out of Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia, and the lazy non productive employees can go elsewhere. What are these people going to put on their resumes? "I spent my time running errands, avoiding work, and obstructing President Trump."
That looks to be the strategy does it not?
Your link was from 2013 - the situation is very different this time.
75% of the Government was funded this time, and has no one one furlough from the closure.
I think that the ones left unfunded were carefully selected by the Republicans, to prevent disrupting voters lives - but possibly to target some Democrat strongholds or funding pass throughs.
Here’s who getting hit this time:
Agriculture
Commerce
EPA
Financial Regulation Agencies
Health and Human Services
Homeland Security
Interior
Justice
State
Transportation
The fact the Mick Mulvaney has been pulled into the Oval Office as Chief of Staff could be an indicator.
Mulvaney spent the first half of Trump’s first term in the Office of Management and Budget, studying how to trim Government.
Maybe he was brought up to Headquarters to manage the execution.
That would fit a pattern, where GEN Kelley was brought up from Homeland Security, when establishing the wall program was a main effort (that program is all set up now - just add money).
Before the midterms, I saw Hillary Clinton inform a Democrat audience that President Trump was planning a big purge after the election.
A big purge! MAKE IT SO NUMBER ONE!
Not going to happen. Federal judges would be all over this.
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How many divisions does the 9th circus have?
As a retired FED I have some observations.
For several years I worked in a multi-agency task force with both employees and contractors. I saw a big difference in their mindset.
1) The employee has the mindset that what ever happens on a given project, since they are employed, they will have to deal or manage it for the duration.
2) The contractor thinks in deliverables - What do they need to complete - deliver to get paid. Sometimes that means very rapid work completion and sometimes it means shoddy work made to look good.
If a reduction in force takes place and federal employees are furloughed into non-employment, the agencies have an opportunity to shift the work assignments to contractors. Some of the RIFed former employees might find their old assignments lucrative if now their motivation is to quickly deliver an assignment and get that check.
I can foresee a defiant Pelosi/Schumer stretching this thing out until their careers are totally ruined. I do think the Administration is far ahead of them on what is really going to happen.
It is called a R.I.F. (Reduction in Force).
Not until I read this article did I know it could effect civilian employees.
The government R.I.F.’d many Active Duty officers after WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam. Mostly Company grade officers. I was one at the end of Viet Nam.
If this could be accomplished within the Federal Government as a whole it certainly would be a welcomed change.
Day 24. :-)
That explains how we lost battleships at Pearl Harbor. 80 % of government employees only do what they want to do?
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