Posted on 09/02/2024 1:29:44 AM PDT by blueplum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation’s capital and its suburbs.
During former President Donald Trump ‘s administration, her office under the U.S. Department of Agriculture was told it would be moving. About 75 people were going to be relocated to Kansas City, Missouri....
The proposals to move a large number of federal workers infuriate local leaders in the suburbs of Washington in both Maryland and Virginia...
... Campante said it also has a downside....“I think it is a positive factor for accountability that you have civil servants also operating as a check on political appointees, and this would be weakened ...
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Don't send feds there!
It is a serious misnomer to call these government “EMPLOYEES” workers. Many of them do very little work...let alone productive work for US Citizens. Especially with the “work from home” scam, these slackers do very little of any consequence as they cruise on toward a cushy retirement and extended benefits. Pox upon them.
Diego Garcia would be a great location for some of these government employees, there is already a U.S. Government presence on the island.
Move ‘em to Frostbite Falls.
Cut the phone lines.
Close the buildings in Washington, D.C.
Recognize that you can't fire everybody. People can pretend to work while playing minesweeper.
Trump should work with the Supreme Court to "fast-track" certain cases. The Democrats can't just use lawfare against him and run the clock out the next four years with frivolous lawsuits.
There haven’t been any federal workers in DC for 4 years. Its a ghost town. 🙄
Remember the guy in Austin that flew an airplane into the IRS building? How about the guy that went into an IRS office and stuck a revolver up the nose of one of the agents? I think all gooberment employees need to be closer to the people they “serve” so we can improve communication with them.
Alaska and Guam are too good. I’m for new gooberment settlements in garden spots of the west such as Winnemuca, Nevada, Eklaka, Montana, Williston, N.D., Douglas, Wyoming or even Rawlins. It would be a good test of their dedication.
One den of thieves checking on another den of thieves
Why can't we do that to our federal employees? Reclass and PCO them elsewhere?
personally, i’m voting for Nome, Alaska as the site for a new “backup” U.S. Capital ...
Send FBI and CIA personnel to New Mexico and demolish their buildings in DC.
IIRC:
Lincoln mad a statement something like:
IT is easy to tell yourself & others you know how to farm when your ‘plow is your pen’
Much of that requires legislation. Agencies are allocated so many GSs at each level of their organizational structure. You get around it by “double” and even “triple” slotting. That’s something that newly appointed Trump agency executives could put a stop to if it still goes on is. This is where you are allocated say one GS13 slot, but you tie two or three GS13s to that slot. You just can’t use payroll money to fund the extra personnel. Those amounts are legislated and part of the legal record. You have to use\convert operational funds for the additional personnel. The payroll amounts and funding numbers are legislated. The only good thing about it is if there is a RIF these extra personnel go first. Quite often the “wokeratti & ‘protected classes’ “ occupy the real (funded) slot. This makes HR happy because it protects those all-important diversity numbers.
Health and Human Services: Fayetteville, AR
Dept of Labor: Eliminate. Let Congress pass laws
Dept of Agriculture: Salina/Manhattan, KS
Dept of Transportation: Leawood, MO (KCMO Suburb)
Dept of Veteran Affairs: Ft. Campbell, KY
Dept of Energy reduce 90%(NNSA/OST only): Amarillo, TX (next to Pantex
Dept of Interior: Jackson Hole, WY
Dept of Education: Eliminate completely
Dept of Treasury: New Orleans, LA
Dept of Justice: San Antonio, TX
Dept of Housing and Urban Development: Eliminate
Dept of State: LIBERIA (take the DC rats back to Wakanda)
Dept of Commerce: Salt Lake City, UT
CIA: Ft. Bliss, TX- stay in base housing: 50% reduction
DIA: Ft. Huachuca, AZ
NASA: Stay in Huntsville, AL
FBI: Move to Huntsville, AL 50% reduction]
IRS: Jackson, MS (the natives will take care of the rest)
EPA: Eliminate. Let Congress pass the laws.
Anything else?
Those employees that were moved to KC can again root for an NFL team with an Indian theme.
FYI, among all the many civil service protections of employees is one that prevents involuntary transfer of an individual over 50 miles.
The Swamp can’t be drained by firings.
You could have a 2nd Department of this or that located elsewhere, and then reduce taskings of the first. The people will get paid to do nothing. But . . . that will slowly work. Boredom will drive them out.
Half is being generous. 75% would be no sweat.
They work from home
Their "work efficiency" remains the same regardless of their residence. They need to spread their "economic prowess" to other areas of the country.
And adjust their salaries to match lower cost of living areas.
Well, they have to do something with all that manure they create.
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