I can see how the rule reducing someone’s pay to $1 would be useful
I don’t buy into the bill of attainder counter argument. Appropriations begin in the House and the House should have full authority to decline payment for substandard services be it to an individual, an entire agency or a contractor.
The president should be able to fire anyone, as well.
Government employee unions are the most powerful in the nation and one of their main functions is to protect employees who don’t perform, who are unable, who are criminal, who won’t follow instructions, etc. And they do a great job of keeping them on the job. I suspect a goodly percentage of government employees at all levels should not be working for the taxpayers.
And, be sure, they will work against Donald Trump as they have done against all Republican Presidents and Department leaders.
Unionized against the citizen - their supposed boss.
Unions in the public sector are a travesty.
Yep - I was in civil service for 15 years and had cause to fire two - the "easy" one only took 10 months and two prior years of documentation....
Nice thing about this problem the de-unionization of FedGov could be accomplished with an executive order. Since it was JFK’s executive order that allowed it. Even FDR thought government unions were a terrible idea.
Though I doubt if Trump will do this “direct assault” on them right away. The “Holman Rule” has a nice indirect “Akido-like” approach to the problem
Whoever controls the federal employee pay computer controls the federal employees.
Turnabout is fair play.
Make every pay increase a pay decrease.
Subtract travel pay from regular pay.
Blame everything on computer glitches.
When the employee complains, stall them for four years and then tell them they are being uncooperative and should perhaps be fired.
Turnabout is fair play.
Federal employees do this to their fellow citizens.
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Imagine if every congressmen was given an assignment by the RNC to each locate 100 items of government bad regulations, corrupt government employees, waste, etc. These lists would then be vetted by both the associated committee in the House and by the Trump administration. Then eliminated according to this process.
For every one of these identified and eliminated, a given congressman would get a bonus of reelection support from the RNC.
For every item greater than the first 100, they would get a bonus-and-a-half. Over 200, double bonus. Over 300 triple bonus.
It wouldn’t actually matter how the congressman found out about the abuses. Complaints from constituents would actually serve a very useful purpose.
This would be ridiculously cost effective in reducing the size and over-regulation by government.