Posted on 11/21/2016 8:47:18 AM PST by detective
President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against, by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits that federal workers have received for a generation.
Hiring freezes, an end to automatic raises, a green light to fire poor performers, a ban on union business on the government’s dime and less generous pensions — these are the contours of the blueprint emerging under Republican control of Washington in January.
These changes were once unthinkable to federal employees, their unions and their supporters in Congress. But Trump’s election as an outsider promising to shake up a system he told voters is awash in “waste, fraud and abuse” has conservatives optimistic that they could do now what Republicans have been unable to do in the 133 years since the civil service was created.
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John Kennedy gave them union rights with an EO, Trump can undo them the same way.
I think it's safe to say business under the Trump administration will NOT be "as usual." Especially while he wields the fearsome power of *the tweet!*
The government is dysfunctional because no one is ever held accountable. Mismanagement, fraud, waste, abuse and more are covered over by layer upon layer of bureaucracy that shields those involved from being held accountable.
Making people accountable will change the mindset of the bureaucrats when they can no longer hide from the spotlight of responsibility.
He will need a second pick to change anything, replacing Scalia is status quo again.
The bureaucracy is a major problem, no doubt about it. However, the congress is the biggest creature in the swamp. We need term limits and an end to the revolving door.
And the Federal Gov’t was such a big proponent of affirmative action. A lot of good people got aced out of good jobs because of scores on the testing because affirmative action applicants got a 10 point advantage given to minorities. Any job should be awarded on the individual’s merit and personality to get the highest level of competence (I include “personality” because you have to weed out the malcontents for good office relationships, no matter how clever they may be.)
Christianity demands it.
Once public service meant a lower salary for better job security. Then the idea was pushed that salaries had to be equivalent to the private sector to get the best people. OF course once they were hired the odds of getting fired were almost nil. When the private sector jobs declined salaries did not keep up with civil service but nothing was done to modify civil service salaries.
We are long overdue for reform.
I read somewhere, and it was a while back, that 1 in 8 people in the U.S. work in some government capacity. Can that be true?
They should,relocate many government office work to other states. Wyoming, South Dakota, Kansa, Nebraska, North Dakota, etc. The people have great work ethic and those in DC can relocate if so desired. Use attrition to reduce federal workforce, gain better employees and reduce the size of the swamp in DC, Maryland, and NoVA.
The primary union for federal employees is the AFGE
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_of_Government_Employees
More excellent news!
I believe there is something like 100 million people in the USA workforce so it likely to have 12.5% or 12.5 million getting a government paycheck.
There are a lot of people at the Federal, State, and Local Payroll Window. We have to look at employees at all levels of government as there are millions of state and local employees who are funded by the Federal govt.
Besides the government employees there are millions of contract workers who are hired to do the work not being done by the government workers.
Try living on unemployment with those mortgage payments
National Endowment for the Arts: Fargo, ND-- after all art education for the rubes is a primary mission, right?
Education: Englewood in Chicago or the Bronx, to better focus on the educational failures who will be happy to greet them everyday.
State: Thule, Greenland. Because they prefer to live in the EU or EEC anyway.
SCOTUS: any Starbucks or coffee shop-- if it was good enough for Samuel Chase, it's good enough for them.
Feel free to add to the list.
Gov employees to include some MD’s are active in the AFGE. One VA hospital had a GS 15 psychologist PHD type as the head union rep there.
I could not agree more on adding personality to merit. Any job in which the hireling must work with the public or other well-performing people needs to be personable enough to fit in the mix. Needless to say, especially when said hireling works with the public.
Screw them. They are the laziest trash I have seen.
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