"Way ahead of ya, brah."
Posted on 06/11/2015 6:47:48 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Wednesday in Iowa, former Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a Republican presidential candidate, said he was “thinking seriously” about creating a program with a “covert division” of monitors to spy on government workers in hopes of improving government efficiency.
Carson said, “The other thing that I’m thinking very seriously about doing is adding a covert division of people who look like the people in this room, who monitor what government people do. And we make it possible to fire government people!”
Carson added, “I think just knowing that person that just came through that door might be one of those people would have a profound effect on the efficiency of government.”
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I do not want more efficient government. I want less government. More efficient government is a rather scary idea. There was a time when conservatives fought for LESS government. Now they want it to do its rotten, unconstitutional job better. Heaven help us.
Supervisors used to be the old term for this.
The dumbest smart man in America.
It’s called the NSA. They already know which levers to push to get any government employee to comply with their wishes.
So, his answer is more government? No thanks.
You have just explained the difference between conservative republicans and establishment republicans.
They fear their own internal Risk Management, but the knuckleheads drive around in unmarked cars. Why doesn’t some brave 1st Amendment CHAMPION “newspaper” that posts gun owners addresses, post a searchable database of govt license plates so the citizenry can send VIDEOS STARRING JOE GOVT! to Risk Mgt?
This used to be the provenance of the media. The fourth estate, no known as the fifth column.
-— There was a time when conservatives fought for LESS government. Now they want it to do its rotten, unconstitutional job better. Heaven help us.-—
Depends on whether it’s a necessary agency. If it is a necessary agency, like the DMV (yes, I know it’s not federally run), “secret shoppers” would be a GREAT THING.
Ben’s heart is in the right place and he has the zeal of a newcomer, but he also has the naiveté of a newcomer and he seems to launch a lot of half-baked ideas.
You know, there really is a much simpler approach to this. Just inform all government workers that their internet browsing history will be published and made publicly available, with a copy of their personal records mailed to their house.
The fix is to first outlaw Public Employee Unions and second to CUT the number and scope of over reaching government agencies.
Only in the comic books.
after a few of these covert operators came up missing or dead, it would be difficult to find folks to fill the ranks. That’s how this government operates
I think it’s a great idea. Of course we’ll then need another agency to keep an eye on the DCD (Carson Covert Division).
Ben Carson may be a great guy, but he apparently has no idea how government operates. Like other posters wrote, the key is LESS government, not more efficient government.
BTW, President Bush also campaigned on making government more efficient. It’s a fool’s errand, because government is inherently inefficient. It’s the nature of all large bureaucracies, and ours is very, very large indeed.
Only if its allowed to carry out extra-legal punishments and executions as well.
The GSA already has one..........................
I meant the GAO.................
The GSA probably has one too....................8^)
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