Posted on 11/02/2016 4:05:24 AM PDT by expat_panama
Well.....they would if they could get a job anyplace else.....
Having that many quit might save them from being fired.
Like any company would hire these low IQ marshmallow major clowns if they would quit.
(Apologies to all the good ones out there, and there are many good ones.)
Not going to happen.
Government workers almost universally value their takings more than anything else.
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Yep. And the ones who would be disaffected by a Trump win will NOT want to enter the private sector their parasitism has in part created. 95,000,000 outside the workforce, and those drones are going to try to match fedteat?
Ah, somehow I thot that we all understood together that the U.S. gov't employs military personnel. Let's agree on that.
...problem isn’t with the military payroll - those folks are underpaid as it is.
Understand that military personnel are a third the fed workforce and the percentage has been rising for a couple decades.
The problem is with the money spent on the unelected bureaucrats
While most folks would probably agree w/ you on that we have to agree that we're really not talking about all fed civilians. Like, (like I said in post #1) we don't want to fire all the border guards. Same for Dept. of Defense civilian employees. We need to keep our foreign intel folks on the job. Let's not just open up all the fed prisons. We don't want the air traffic controllers fired w/o talking first about who replaces 'em --and if the work goes on contract then some fed employee needs to write the contract and administer it.
Campaign rallies may be fun but getting work done takes a bit of effort.
Best way to separate the chaff from the wheat. Makes Trump’s job that much easier.
There are many animal stockyards that need shoveling out. Government workers are certainly qualified!
Most federal employees do not work in Washington. Only those at GS 11 or higher and 15-20 yrs experience on the job make six figures.
Most of that wealth in those counties comes from private employment which works with, for or against the government such as lobbyists and special interest lawyers.
Also it is rare to have a privately employed person leave private practice and enter the federal workforce except at the very highest levels. It is common for those working for the government to leave for private practice. This indicates that the real money is outside of federal employment.
The primary benefit to federal employees is job security not income. At the very highest levels the pay is trivial compared to the highest levels in private employment. Compare the president’s salary to that of the heads of major corporations. You are talking 10 to 100 to one or more.
Active duty military personnel, 1980: about 2 million.
Active duty military personnel, 2011: about 1.5 million.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004598.html
So when you say the fed work-force has been cut substantially, much of that has been military - one of the few constitutional responsibilities the feds actually have.
As stated in your original post, that’s not made clear - the implication you’ve presented is that we’ve already been winnowing the bureaucracy.
There are two separate issues, and we should be careful not to conflate them: the military and the border patrol (actual federal responsibilities) don’t need further reductions. When folks in this thread are applauding purported resignations of federal employees, they’re not applauding military personnel who’ve decided not to re-up. And if someone’s trying to minimize the importance of cleaning out the bureaucracy by stating that federal positions have been been decreasing, the only portion of that decrease that most of us care about is that involving those bureaucrats. Lower numbers of soldiers - about a half-million fewer since Reagan - is of no comfort as a rationalization in opposition to those striving for a goal of lower numbers of slugs in HEW, EPA, and the like.
I would never turn over my fate to the likes of BJ Clinton, W, or Obama; while many are concerned they might get hurt or killed, I couldn’t imagine facing God when I’ve killed someone because my corrupt government ordered me to do so.
Think of the Serbs killed in our bombing of Belgrade that was engineered to keep a sitting president’s sex acts off the front page; ‘nuf said.
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