Niteranger68: “Too many government workers believe that no matter how bad the economy is for the general public, they are too special to go without. These are the people we need to starve out.”
Just get rid of everyone who thinks they’re doing important work? What if some people ARE doing important work and aren’t easily replaceable? Fire them simply because they think they’re special?
That's as good of a criteria as any as far as I'm concerned.
I'm sure the Sub-Assistant Secretary of Human Rights in Outer Slombovia is utterly convinced he or she is doing 'important work'.
It used to be that the Army Engineers or the Navy Seabees did the building. Now there's no job so small that it can't be done by a G-14 Federal employee with a pension.
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You don't just fire them, you reduce the pay to a point where you find someone competent at the lowest salary possible. Those who want to make more money than a non-profit like the government is willing to pay can go into the for-profit sector.
Get rid of federal agencies that were authorized under the New Deal "substantial effects" Commerce Clause.
If we really need done what they're doing, and it can only be done by the federal government then we'll get a constitutional amendment to enumerate a power to authorize it.
If we really need it done, and the states can do it, let them.
That it is "important work" does not constitute a grant of power to the federal government to assume control of it.