In the meantime if we could do what I have suggested (we have some good fed employees on FR, and many have said that my way is the only to clear out the dead wood and the rat cancers), it would be a big and proper movement.
The strongest unions for the Rats are the federal unions for fed employees. I would love to see them waste millions of $'s in courts trying to get people hired back if my plan was use. That would weaken the rats even more.
Then, you nailed it. Most of the agencies might have a short term need. They should be funded and then defunded when that need is managed or is gone. Now once they become a federal agency, they have eternal life.
Last but not least most of these jobs should go to independent contractors with no benefits nor long term contracts. They contract for X work, and they do it and move to the next job or wait until one comes up.
The only fly I see in the ointment there is that it would give the next Rat administration a free hand to clear out anyone who would potentially stand in the way of turning the federal government into a subsidiary of the DNC. Basically it's going to turn civil service jobs into political spoils, and that sword can cut both ways.