Posted on 02/03/2017 10:22:59 PM PST by detective
I am glad that others are noticing these continual leaks. It’s ridiculous. Some of these things are coming from people who must be in his circle. Trump needs to root out the mole.
Obama holdovers, including MB all over the upper echelons.
There are ways of rooting out leakers. Give it some time.
Start with enforcing employment agreements. That will get a lot of people fired. Don’t replace them.
Next, don’t name anybody to head departments. Nobody in charge; no work done; go home. Use vacation time if they want pay.
Early retirement programs. Lots of ways to drain the swamp.
Most of the bureaucracy at the WH and on Capitol Hill are Civil Service employees who are entrenched practically for life. You have to be an ax murderer to get fired.
Amen!
Reassignment to Zimbabwe.
I think there are some agencies where people even neutral (never mind pro)to Trump have to keep their heads down or get harassed. Strongly suspect this includes EPA, much of Justice and State. Unfortunately while I think most of the Federal bureaucracy is actually Neutral to Trump, I agree that even in Nominally pro-Trump agencies like the Coast Guard or CPB there are cliques of rabid anti-trumpers doing everything they can to sabotage him.
I agree. Unfortunately, many of them are Civil Service, which makes in almost impossible to fire them. I remember reading an article on FR that many Obama political appointees were being re-classified as Civil Service, without going through the appropriate process.
I found this article, which does include that Civil Service employees are on a 1-year probation and can be fired without jumping through all the hoops, though managers rarely use this to fire them.
A Federal Job Is A Career for Life
http://www.fedsmith.com/2005/09/27/federal-job-career-life/
DC hates trump. DOD might be an exception but the bureaucracy has its hackles up. No question about it.
Exactly what our Founders warned us of: an ever increasing in size and power, frightful (for it CAN take *EVERYTHING* you have) beast.
WTF?! 2.7M ‘employees’? I’m sure the ‘unofficial employees’ (aka unions and lobbyists) bump that up by another 1M.
Not *ONE* position that could not exist w/o taking property from another; as surely ~2M are illegally on the dole...I don’t see a lot of authority granted for a majority of the alphabet soup\agencies\etc.
You can not drain a city that 97% of people living there voted for the criminality of Hillary Clinton.
What you can do is expose the corruption under Obama and Hillary and hope some of the people in DC, though Democrats are patriots and not socialists/communists. Who don’t care about the country except to take power away from the people.
We need only look at the history of the 20th Century to know that socialism and communism always return to their violent roots. Killing people.
Philippines is currently waging this same battle on a third world level - no offense to them. If we lose rule of law, we will be In the same situation. No. They must win freedom themselves.
It sounds like you are completely ignorant about what really happens within the federal bureaucracy.
Enjoy your illusions. Don’t take your head out of the sand.
Not in most, but more than you think. I live and work here, and from your name, sounds like you are familiar with DoD, which does not have a huge problem. Other agencies, including innocuous ones like GAO, GSA, Treasury, etc., have a deeper problem than you mighyt realize.
The German Schutzstaffel started out as Hitler's personal protection squad, he knew he couldn't rely on the government or the police to keep him safe.
They provided security and also broke communists and anarchist heads whenever they rioted or caused trouble.
Other than that Holocaust thing (too far), they were an extremely effective way to drain the post WW I German swamp.
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