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Step 1: Make illegal and abolish all federal employee unions.
And take away their pensions and any other cushy benefits they were given by stupid government “negotiators” cowtowing to corrupt unions.
This.....civil service reform....has been needed for generations. Of course I doubt it will ever happen. Their massive Union will fight like hell against it as will the Democrats eager to protect a key part of their power base.
YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!
Yes, and outlaw Public Employee Unions, because as FDR said, we can’t have them negotiating both sides of the contract.
We should outlaw the federal, state and local employees’ unions, too.
Boy. I cannot think of any article posted in FR that I have agreed with more.
By all means, let’s make all federal employees fireable so we can return to the days of yesteryear when federal employment was a patronage system, where every incoming administration fired all employees and hired their political croneys, where every federal employee was required to contribute to the political campaigns of the current administration on pain of losing their jobs. Yes, that was really a great way to run a country.
Actually these swamps are not so little anymore. In most States in 1950, about three percent of its population was employed by the State and its local governments. Now its six percent or more. And in my own case, I get no more in government "services" than my parents did in the 1950s.
ML/NJ
During the second term, President Trump should fire every Democrat working in the federal government.
Remember Liberals, Elections Have Consequences.
I’ve worked in federal government and there was nothing cushy about it. I made far less there, than when I’ve worked in the private sector. The biggest problem is that federal government is bloated with workers that aren’t needed. The govt creates unnecessary jobs by requiring more oversight and regulations. You spend half your time as a federal employee filing out meaningless forms and taking unnecessary training. Totally ridiculous way to run a country.
Thanks to JFK’s executive order allowing them to unionize, it is almost impossible to fire them.
He doesn’t have to fire them. Just start relocating agencies to flyover country. They will quit on their own.
This was an issue long ago.
They made federal bureaucrats difficult to remove to end the ‘spoils system’ where incoming presidents handed out jobs to his supporters.
The created, instead, a monster that has only its own interests at heart.
There doesn’t seem to be a working solution.
2) 2 FIRES/RETIRES PER HIRE.
2 administrative laws/decrees removed for each new one.,p
3) Finally, move all the cabinet positions and agencies out of DC:
Dept of Defense: Omaha, NE, Bangor, WA, Tampa, FL
Dept of Treasury: Denver, CO
Dept of Commerce: KCMO
Dept of Interior: Couer D'Alane, ID
Dept of Energy: Tennessee Valley
FBI: Dismantle and reform in USMS
ATF: Disband, roll arson group into USMS.
Dept of housing: WV
Dept of Education: dismantle
Dept of Agriculture: Stuttgart, AR
You get the jist.....move these agencies and departments FAR and WIDE....most DC swamp rats will never leave the DC/Baltimore area. Let the parasites stay in the filth.
btt
NO TENURE FOR TEACHERS EITHER
I worked in the Federal government for three years in the mid-1970s and again for one year (under a temporary one-year Interagency Personnel Agreement) in the early 1980s. A few observations and recollections:
1. It is the Civil Service system, not Federal unions, which give employment protection to Federal workers.
2. Many upper-level, but non-political, Federal positions are exempt from Civil-Service protections in exchange for higher salaries. People in those jobs can be terminated.
3. There are sensible reforms to the Civil Service system
that could be implemented that fall short of the complete abolition of job protections. One might be the institution of an up-or-out system like the one that exists in many law, accounting, and consulting firms (and to a degree in the military). Another reform might be extending the current probationary period before (limited) job protections kick in.
4. The number of civilian Federal employees (around two million) hasn’t changed much in 50 years. The big growth in government bureaucracy has occurred at the state and local levels.
All federal employees are fire-able.