As is apparent, the author is too young to shave.
Posted on 11/21/2024 2:45:07 PM PST by Eleutheria5
As part of his new administration, President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to revive Schedule F — an ultimately unsuccessful effort from the end of his first term that sought to remove civil service job protections for potentially tens of thousands of career federal employees.
But based on survey data, one famous GOP pollster argued that the public would not support such a policy.
Frank Luntz told attendees at a National Academy of Public Administration conference on Nov. 14 that 61% of respondents — including majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans — would prefer a “non-partisan, nonpoliticized civil service that is less accountable to the president — meaning it is less influenced by political agendas, but it also means that the workers are harder to replace.”
In comparison, 39% would prefer a “politicized civil service that is more accountable to the president — meaning that it is more influenced by political agendas, and it is easier to replace.”
“We gave them the argument why it's good on both sides. 61-39 they're on your side,” he said. “Our civil servants should be hired because of performance, not politics. That is your sentence. If you don't use it, it's your own fault.”
Luntz shared that data as part of a presentation for public administration experts on how they can better communicate about good government.
He argued that part of the problem is the terms that federal agencies use to describe the value of their work.
“If you insist on using the words you've been using, the public will say you're wrong,” he said. “This is the clearest example of language and messaging I've ever seen, and I want you to succeed.”
For instance, Luntz encouraged attendees to use the word “performance” instead of “merit” ...
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they can shove it. we need to destroy big government
Yeah...except we DON'T have that now. Thus the poll is meaningless.
I bet that the “survey respondents” and the American public would highly favor the measure if it was referred to as the “screw over federal bureaucrats” order.
Luntz is push polling.
Wait.. what? This article makes no sense and is another attempt at gaslighting.
The government is partisan and corrupt as hell. It’s the most evil thing that exists in our lives, depriving us of freedoms and independence with every law and regulation imposed.
That would eliminate 99.9% of the current civil service workers.
The effort to undo the election is hysterical. Frank Luntz?!?! They are citing Frank Luntz? Well, it could be worse, they could be trotting out Karl Rove to write an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Oh, wait.
Is this poll as accurate as all the election polls we saw in October?
We saw a sh*t-ton of crap polls prior to the election. They were all proven wrong.
But suddenly we need to trust polls?
Most American don’t know what Schedule F means!
“Frank Luntz told attendees at a National Academy of Public Administration conference...”
The same Frank Luntz who told Republicans that campaigning on Transgender and Secure Borders were ‘divisive issues’ and instead should campaign on bread-and-butter issues that bring the country together, like lowering the corporate tax rate?
No thanks, and by the way, who’s paying him to spout that garbage.
LOL
Poll of govt employees 😎
The only “survey” that matters is the one where Trump was elected.
Would that Poll also mention that 80%+ of those included “civil servants” never work or show up in the office they are assigned to, and have been working from home since 2020?
Get rid of the non producers, streamline the government. Don’t believe anything from Luntz.
Suuure. I’m sure resistance to Schedule F is a big priority among the public. /s
How about if you phrase the question, “Would you be in favor of making it easier for the President to fire sub-par or extraneous federal workers”?
I suspect the results would be quite different from what you’d get if you asked, for example, “Are you in favor of reinstituting schedule F, which would remove safeguards and protections for federal workers”?
I sort of have an idea that most of those polled did not know jack-diddly about the federal employment system. So just answered based on how the questions were phrased.
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