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How about term limits for government employees?

Since government employees aren't really elected, I think it'd be hard to pass some sort of "term" limitation on them. I do think that a few things would remedy the situation (not that ANY have a chance of passing in our Communist Congress):

Immediately repeal ALL civil service (non-military) statutes, and remove ALL employment protection from these employees. Explicitly grant to the Executive branch the authority to fire personnel who do not meet certain codes and standards (which can be determined either by Congress or by the Executive).
Cut and strip ALL agencies from the Executive branch which are not explicitly related to inter-state and international relations. Socialist experiments cost too much, and take too much of the Federal government's time and budget, to be worth the cost of keeping at the Federal level. Let the states which wish to offer such programs offer them.
Finally, cut the Federal government's income drastically by completely repealing the Federal tax code (26 U.S.C, iirc). This would require us to repeal the 16th amendment, which doesn't stand a chance in hell of happening unless enough states get bold enough to try (not bloodly likely), or until we get rid of the 17th amendment.

It's starting to look hopeless to me. Our entire Federal government is designed to be a very legislatively-strong system - so all solutions to the problems we're having these days MUST come from Congress, in the form of repealing useless and/or outdated laws, etc. The Executive branch has very little control over what it is able to do to its departments, by design (it's bound to fully execute the laws which our Congress pass, it's not able to act of its own will, including the President, who more than anything, serves only as the head of the Military...)

Unfortunately, the Socialists figured out how to take advantage of this design in the early 20th century, and we have yet to take our Government back from them. As long as more Americans care about this week's episode of Ally McBeal than they do about preventing us from becoming the Soviet States of America, we're in deep doo, unfortunately.

Now I'm depressed again...

:) ttt