Rat congressits remain on Puerto Rico Beaches Bravely fighting the evil President Trump during his terrible and inhumane shutdown crisis!
After the fall of the Soviet Union they found out how really unmotivated almost all Russian citizens were after years of suffering under a government workers bureaucracy.
Rat congressits remain on Puerto Rico Beaches Bravely fighting the evil President Trump during his terrible and inhumane shutdown crisis!
Social welfare programs (including social security)
Pensions for government employees (including military)
These are some things that would be very difficult to cut — although a discussion about finding areas for reduction wouldn’t be a bad idea.
But we have hundreds of thousands of civil servants sitting in cubicles dreaming up rules and regulations to make your life more difficult. We really should send these people home for good. Probably a 20% cut in the federal budget could be made with almost no pain.
The federal government today is mostly doing stuff that it isn’t supposed to do.
At some point the government will have to admit it doesn’t need these non-essential workers and formally lay them off. Let them go collect unemployment benefits, find new jobs.
Moral: Every office in DC has more people than it needs because your status in DC is determined by home many people you control. That's the path to promotion.
Solution? What would happen if Trump came out and said:
By Executive Order, as of tomorrow morning, every office of the Federal Gov't with the exception of the Military, will have 10% fewer funds at their disposal than they do today. I expect every manager to provide the same or better service than they currently provide. If you cannot do that, I will find someone who can. Have a nice day.
Since it does not involve additional funding, I don't see how it could be prevented.
Keep it shut down.
In prior shutdowns, the sob stories were about how the general public was being impacted by the shutdown, such as veterans in wheel chairs being turned away from the WWII Memorial.
I live in Northern Virginia. Many, many friends and neighbors work for the government (including my own husband.) While some work in defense and obviously, that is necessary, many work in OPM, SEC type stuff. Lawyers, HR stuff. These are six figure salaries with benefits galore. Zero stress. Less than 8 hr days. Paid exercise time while on the clock. More vacation days than they can even use.... It is a joke! I’ve seen many Facebook memes and “thank you for your service” stuff going around. And my first reaction is... why am I thanking you for your “service” for a cushy, well-paid job with zero accountability? Is it really such a cross to bear? We just had a big snow here this weekend and I worked from home. All day was stress, frantic email checking etc.. not worth it to stay home, should have just gone in the office. My husband (whose job looks pretty important on paper) never even considered checking an email or making a phone call once the gov’t announced closures on Sunday night. Another stress-free day for those lucky enough to work in la-la land! Yes, I’m pretty jealous. And yes, I’m annoyed at having to cow-tow and “thank” all these “self-less” gov’t workers that are inconvenienced one time while reaping the benefits of a sweet gig for a lifetime.
Government workers are SlUGS!
Maybe they can sign on to clean windows at Nancy’s place?
But, but, but if you watch MSNBS, ABC, NBC and CBS all the furloughed workers are making fifty thousand a year and have three starving children at home...
Yup! Baby!
So former lib Roger Simon has moved from hi-tax Cali to Nashville. Who can blame him.
Shutdown governments worldwide! It is the quickest and easiest way to decrease CO2 production. It can happen over night people. We dont even have the 10 years Al Gore warned about 18 years ago. Save the Earth. Think of all the horned toads getting over heated people !
Yes!
That would really be WINNING!
They will learn, but some - I'm thinking of true believers like AOC - will not.