You obviously group all government employees with the elites who own the Deep State - many are just average Joes who do a job and occasionally get caught up in a political battle.
Almost every one here at FR has worked in their lives. Some have always worked in the private sector. Some have always worked in the public sector. Some have done both.
WE ALL KNOW there is deadwood in every workplace. Either a person who is totally not effective at their job or a scofflaw who manages to always LOOK BUSY, but who never produces much of anything. I call them ‘the scurriers’. Rushing to & fro-—but only dithering about, never being truly productive.
When you add the lack of incentive UNIONS push on their members, it gets worse—on a grand scale. AND, YES, I have had such an experience with Unions.
Trump knows how to run an effective operation. That is how a person is TRULY SUCCESSFUL. IF Ryan & other GOPe members discarded his desires to cut various departments, that only puts the candle on this cake for me.
I do remember reading that Trump found out there was a group working for the FEDS-—& their original job was to determine how much damage the Y2K issue would bring. Since the so very smart computer programmers had failed to recognize the end of the century was coming & they hadn’t programmed their software for such an event, there was much speculation about what would happen.
I had to get a software update for my accounting program before I could do any posting after 12-31-1999.
Trump asks his staff-—”What is this group & what are they doing?” He is told they were formed for Y2K. WHY are they still being paid?
BECAUSE NO ONE SHUT THEM DOWN-——for over 16 years, they continued to use space, draw paychecks and benefits.....
G W Bush administration MIGHT have needed them for 6 months or so-—but NOT A MINUTE LONGER...
Obama administration didn’t need them at all-—
But this staff & all those expenses were continued and continued and continued until TRUMP saw them in the paperwork & STOPPED it.
NO WONDER OBAMA only presented ONE BUDGET-—a C R (Continuing resolution) HID this travesty for 17 years.
Obama administration is the same group that allowed the AWAN family to steal House computers & to get into House members data while supposedly doing IT work.
Missing hardware & entrance into our software. Connection to Pakistan-— WHAT COULD GO WRONG???? Ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz. How come she & the AWAN family haven’t been prosecuted??? Thousands of missing hardware & no prosecutions.
My brother once forced himself to actually READ the Federal budget. ANYONE can buy a copy. He said it came in 2 fat volumes. He forced himself to read every day & he told me IF the American public actually KNEW what was in a Federal Budget, they would burn Washington DC to the ground in 24 hours.
I believe him.