Build a federal office building in Barrow, Alaska, the only American town above the Artic Circle. Send these people there. They will leave government employment on their own.
Posted on 05/29/2017 7:45:18 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A notoriously corrupt Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) manager fired in the first day of President Donald Trump’s presidency — to rousing acclaim from veterans who heralded it as a sign of lasting reform — has been returned to work by VA officials after he filed a civil-service protections appeal.
The return of the Puerto Rico hospital director is the latest example of Trump’s reform efforts encountering the entrenchment of what he has called Washington’s swamp, and comes in the same month a court ruled that the VA may not even be able to fire the Phoenix hospital director, who is a convicted felon as a result of job-related misconduct.
“On the morning of January 20, 2017, the Department removed DeWayne Hamlin, the director of the VA Caribbean Healthcare System, from the federal civil service. Mr. Hamlin subsequently appealed his removal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and because of particulars in his case that remains under active litigation, he was brought back to work at VA,” spokesman James Hutton told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“As we have underscored since January 20, President Trump and Secretary [David] Shulkin have made employee accountability at VA a top priority, and we will continue to take appropriate disciplinary actions with our employees. The Secretary in this case was not able to overturn this decision once he was made aware of it. We need this ability in new legislation.”
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Build a federal office building in Barrow, Alaska, the only American town above the Artic Circle. Send these people there. They will leave government employment on their own.
I posted that concept months ago. No one listens to reason at all any more.
Midway and Wake islands are too tropical. How about St. Lawrence Island or Attu?
Term limits is precisely NOT the solution to this sort of problem. I believe in term limits, but the problem with term limits is that it gives the bureaucracies [and the lobbyists] the upper hand since they know that the overseers will be gone soon.
A good show to watch on this is the BBC 1980’s series named Yes, Minister! It shows how the long serving civil servants hoodwink the short term ministers.
To compound the problem, notice the MSM doesn’t even report this issue. Why? Because to do so would distract their uninterrupted hate of Trump and they would be forced to report Trump tried to reform a corrupt system. To avoid any mention of positive news on Trump, they simply don’t report the issue at all.
It's stupifing. ☺
That’s because until very recently, all the wrong people were running the show. At every level, from the top to the bottom.
You don’t have much comprehension of how American civil wars work.
There would be no splitting of the country.
Period.
No matter who won.
There would be significantly fewer people here when it was done.
I will gladly participate. I am the left's huckleberry.
the Aleutians are a better choice.
Yeah, we can count on that.
If there's a time to ignore a judge, this would be that time. The support will be extremely strong, given the VA's activity at this point.
Those would work too but I think Midway is more remote
Looks like the tumbrels need to roll...
>Seems like the only solution is to shut down the entire organization....
No, you just eliminate the position entirely. Then it’s not about the person (even tho it IS about the person) but simply a reduction in force in the department. To make it fair, find all such persons unjustly still employed and remove all their positions.
Hiring and firing practices in government must be overhauled immediately!!!
Government employees must live in the same world as We The People!
This is getting way out of hand!
No other outcome could reasonably have been expected.
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