Saving for later.
This is exactly the government the Founders warned about.
The easiest and quickest fix is to move all the HQ out of Washington DC and place them in a remote location with horrid winters.
Most employees would bail in a hurry.
Taxpayers have long been footing the bill for comparable 80%s at many federal agencies, of course, when a very large percentage are just dead weight. They collect paychecks, benefits left-and-right, and build up pensions that our children and grandchildren will be stuck paying, lest they get visited by those 80,000 additional IRS agents.
Whatever Deep State orders.
Nothing good.
pride, sloth, arrogance, greed, envy, socialism, depravity
Yeow!
I guarantee they’re doing more than just tearing ‘W’s off keyboards.
I read something with regard to the DNC being in Chicago…
The state of Illinois has 7,000 units of government while the state of Delaware has 400.
Imagine what the feds have…
What is going on in Federal Agencies in the third week of August?
Nothing. Nothing happens anywhere in government during the third week of August.
Treason?
Backbone of the deep state.
I worked for a city in a summer job. It was a group of 30 employees, mostly students like me. There were only 3 of us that were actually working. I confronted the supervisor and asked why so many people with so few working. He told me that the size of his department was budgeted, and if he shrank it, his budget would be reduced. That is how bureaucracy works.
Thanks to nearly a century and a half of gradual accumulation, these agencies have a permanent life. The employees cannot be fired except for egregious actions. And the elected president has no control over them.
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This is not true. A GOOD President can VETO the entire budget except Defense. At that point maximum PRESSURE is dialed up. NOBODY will be able to cash a check even if they get one. That day will come one way or another no matter what is done or not done.
Once the fire is red hot under everybody’s ass in Congress and out of Congress, let the negotiations begin. “Starting” with these 5:
1. pay cut’s to compensation levels in private industry
2. Hundreds upon Hundreds of Agencies closed for good.
3. Everybody is fired every 8 years and rehired based on merit.
4. Public employee unions and civil service abolished.
5. DEI is abolished
The key is can Congress muster 2/3 vote to over-ride. Trump may be in that position. If so, he will have chance to SAVE the United States of American from 65 years of corruption.
I would bet 95% or more of these “employees” vote dem.
“there is a strange lack of curiosity about what they really do and how they do it”
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the ‘civil servants’ workforce is supplemented by an army of contractors who do a lot of the serious work that feds do not want to do, or simply cannot do. Most of this shadow workforce goes largely unnoticed by the public.
Back in the 70s I did an internship at the usda. It was fairly bad back then. Our office publish monthly commodity prices and as such it needed to be on time. When I got there it was done ‘by hand’ and took several hours. To me, it made no sense. So I cranked out a quick script to automate most of the job. I got in loads of trouble for that. Then there was the office of 6 next to mine. On day 1 the first guy got a stack of applications which he read thru and checked. On day 2 he got a new stack and passed off his checked stack to the next person who rechecked them…..and so on until the original stack had been checked 6 times. They used to joke about wearing the forms out. I could go on & on. You get the pic tho. I can only imagine it’s gotten worse in the intervening years.
“So long as I can remember, every Republican president has promised to get rid of the Department of Education. Great. But why does it never happen?”
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The Repukes can’t even manage to defund NPR/PBS. There is little to no chance they will ever eliminate any useless or redundant agencies.
Don’t forget that all those employees suck on the Federal tit and repay it with their votes, mostly Democrat. Creating and expanding Federal bureaucracies has been a primary Democrat vote-insurance project for decades.