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Do you support this idea? Drain the swamp!
1 posted on 12/30/2020 5:59:11 AM PST by rustyweiss74
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To: rustyweiss74

of course. ALong with automatic closure of Federal Agencies after a certain number of funding cycles.

If they can’t get on top of the problem for which they were created in 18-36 months-prolly not going to happen.


2 posted on 12/30/2020 6:02:12 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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Defenestrate the mandarin classes.


3 posted on 12/30/2020 6:02:24 AM PST by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato (KTF))
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Drain the Swamp. Euthanize (fire) the Swamp Critters.


4 posted on 12/30/2020 6:02:43 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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Allow administration unlimited power to fire and replace all government workers.


5 posted on 12/30/2020 6:03:31 AM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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To: rustyweiss74

4 years. Medical benefits, etc., vest after 8 years. :-)


6 posted on 12/30/2020 6:05:41 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: rustyweiss74

Yea...I’d prefer to start with the senators and congress critters first. 12 years total (senat and or Congress or combined) and they’re gone. Never to return.


7 posted on 12/30/2020 6:08:16 AM PST by irish guard
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“calls” tells?

LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One: two: why,
Then, ‘tis time to do’t.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my
Lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
Fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
Account?—Yet who would have thought the old man
To have had so much blood in him.

Just step down, Marsha. An informed citizenry with an UNCORRUPTED BALLOT BOX can take it from there.


8 posted on 12/30/2020 6:08:51 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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California has term limits, how this that working out?


9 posted on 12/30/2020 6:17:51 AM PST by Jolla
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Bureaucrat .... any federal employee not elected to office.

Since Clinton removed the mandatory retirement age of 65, federal employees have stayed around till they retired, or died. In 1994, there was a fellow federal employee, THAT WAS A B-25 PILOT IN WORLD WAR 2!!!


13 posted on 12/30/2020 6:21:53 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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While term limits is a nice idea, the people who do the REAL damage are the unelected staffers, bureaucrats, and lobbyists. Congresscritters spends most of their time fundraising limiting the amount of damage they can do. Their legislation is drafted by lobbyists or their staff. The Congresscritter has read, at most, the executive summary.
What we really need is turn over in the lobbyists, staff members, and bureaucrats.


14 posted on 12/30/2020 6:34:09 AM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: rustyweiss74

now, there’s an idea!


19 posted on 12/30/2020 8:51:52 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: rustyweiss74
My understanding is that something (I believe) called the Civil Service Act was instituted a long time ago because of the problems associated with most positions in bureaucracy being selected by the incoming administration. One president may have been assassinated because someone who expected a government job didn't get one.

Government jobs are careers. People who go into government would like to work their lives in government so that they can get a decent pension at the end. they wouldn't want to be kicked out before they were fully vested.

Bureaucrats are supposed to be limited to only doing what the law created by the legislature says. This was reinforced when Nixon tried to ignore some aspects of a law passed by congress but the courts told him 'No. Your executive branch including the low-level bureaucrats have to execute the law as passed.'

This is why executive orders are so problematic. They are an end run around the legislature that leads to an imperial presidency. Maybe a monarchy would be better, but this should be something decided by the people and not implemented by the president.

So the problem comes down to the legislature failing to do its job and passing simple, meaningful, and enforceable legislation. Their failure to do so is most likely due to the current polarization of the country. We are undergoing a transition from a uniquely American society to something more closely approximating what is going on in Western Europe.

Either the populace has to wake up, become more actively conservative, and move the country back towards its founding principles, or we need to make our peace with the globalist agenda represented by the EU.

20 posted on 12/30/2020 11:46:57 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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That does little with regard to the oppressive size and power of the unelected fourth branch. Just purge it.


22 posted on 12/30/2020 12:39:27 PM PST by tbw2
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MOAR Martha here...

https://theantimedia.com/someone-made-a-list-of-politicians-whove-admitted-to-being-owned-by-special-interests/


23 posted on 01/01/2021 5:39:41 PM PST by PGalt
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