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To: rustyweiss74

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: Reno89519
Allow administration unlimited power to fire and replace all government workers.

This is the way things USED to be. It was known as the Spoils System. I remember being "taught" in 7th grade, in the late 50s, how "unfair" this was.

Wikipedia says (in part):

The term was used particularly in politics of the United States, where the federal government operated on a spoils system until the Pendleton Act was passed in 1883 due to a civil service reform movement. Thereafter the spoils system was largely replaced by nonpartisan merit at the federal level of the United States.
"Nonpartisan merit"! Now there's a knee-slapper!

ML/NJ

10 posted on 12/30/2020 6:18:15 AM PST by ml/nj
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