Posted on 09/23/2024 5:45:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After one term as president in which his promise to remake the massive federal government mostly came up short, Donald Trump again is raining fury on the “deep state,” pledging if elected in November to replace career civil servants with his like-minded allies.
If Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance were to succeed in remaking the federal workforce in the way they have described, it would be the most radical reconfiguration of the U.S. government in 140 years.
Critics, including nonpartisan analysts, fear Trump’s proposal to replace thousands of civil servants with his loyalists would resurrect something like the 19th century “spoils” system, which Congress scrapped in the late 1800s due to rampant incompetence and cronyism.
The U.S. operated for much of the 1800s on the understanding that individuals won jobs with the government not by proving their expertise, but by having connections to presidents and their parties.
Congress moved to eliminate the spoils system in 1883, about 18 months after a disgruntled job-seeker assassinated the man he believed owed him a government appointment — James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
“You’re now talking about 140 years of presidential administrations — Republicans and Democrats — who all supported the proposition that the best way to get an effective government was to have a career, professional, merit-based civil service,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that analyzes federal agencies and their employees. “So the idea that we would convert that, or return to a 19th-century-style spoils system, is a huge anomaly. It’s a radical change.”
Trump has made clear he does not intend to be dissuaded by those who have worked within the government before. The Republican presidential candidate recently offered his emphatic endorsement of a housecleaning when...”
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Just the crooked ones?
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If you don’t like it, don’t click on it. It’s not rocket science.
Perfect!
“You’re now talking about 140 years of presidential administrations — Republicans and Democrats — who all supported the proposition that the best way to get an effective government was to have a career, professional, merit-based civil service,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that analyzes federal agencies and their employees."
I remember the old system before it was corrupted. It was very hard to become a full time employee. Many employees were only part time yearning for a full time job. With some regularity jobs were eliminated. A RIF, Reduction In Force, was common. My late father agonized over them about who to let go with each RIF. There were no guarantees of employment for life no matter what you did or didn't do. The jobs also didn't pay that well, private sector made much more and benefits were similar in many disciplines. There was the pension but it was not lush though it did pay as much as 80% of your high 3 and included medical benefits in excess of medicare.
Max seems to have missed the DEI hiring practice implementation.
Attempting NOT to be a criminal in dc will get one killed.
Anyway, there’s a lot of dead wood there 😒
Unfortunately, “merit-based” has come to mean a rating system that is based on minority status, not performance.
One point for female, two points for black, three points for gay, four points for trans, and negative five points for white.
140 years of built up crud is a lot. Sometimes you have to drag the stove out from the wall, scrub and clean and paint everything behind it, and then toss the filth crusted appliance in a dumpster and get a new one.
The separate States are supposed to take care of the rest.
“Trump’s proposal to replace thousands of civil servants with his loyalists “
So the writer pulled “his loyalists” out of his funky ass. Trump never said that. The axed employees either would be (1) replaced by competent people, or (2) not replaced at all after
Elon had done his efficiency and waste investigations.
“What benefit do we gain from the Dept of Education??”\
No benefits; only detriments.
About 75 % of federal workers are worthless leaches.
The fact that there even is a nonprofit for this purpose says volumes about the excessive size of government.
What a load of 🐄💩
Except when the high level people with power by-pass the civil servant requirements.
Who said anything about replacing them?
He needs to defund large parts of the federal government. I would start with the
FBI and DOJ. They don’t do anything useful anyway. Also the Dept of Education, the CFPB, the DOT, etc.
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