Posted on 09/20/2018 9:12:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Project Veritas just released its latest undercover video, "Unmasking the Deep State." This first video focuses on a State Department employee who is both a poster child for the Deep State and a perfect example of why the federal bureaucracy needs serious reform. Providentially, there is new legislation being considered in Congress that would do just that: the Merit Act (H.R. 559).
The Merit Act would greatly streamline the process for firing employees who are poor performers, insubordinate, or otherwise engaged in misconduct. Since the election of President Trump, the bureaucracy, including numerous holdovers from the Obama administration, has been engaged in an unprecedented level of obstruction, leaks, and sabotage. These bad actors call it "resistance." FBI and Department of Justice misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe and the Clinton email scandal is only the most visible component.
This is nothing new. President Bush faced similar resistance from the bureaucracy, and going as far back as 1986, the Reagan administration had to contend with a State Department relentlessly working to derail his foreign policy. In the intervening period, we have been treated to stories of almost incomprehensible incompetence and corruption in the federal bureaucracy.
Recall, for example, the case of John Beale, the EPA's "climate expert," who continued to collect a salary for 18 months after he retired and scammed the government for 13 years. He collected a salary higher than legal limits; took unearned bonuses; awarded himself a handicapped parking pass though he wasn't handicapped; and was absent for months at a time, falsely claiming to be a CIA agent working other assignments. Then-president Obama appointed Beale's wife, Nancy Kete, to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The pair own houses in Arlington, Va. and Cape Cod.
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Get rid of the union for public employees. Then restore the constitutional republic and fire 95% of the work force than has no authority to exist.
"Providentially, there is new legislation being considered in Congress that would do just that: the Merit Act (H.R. 559)."
Election year dog-and-pony show.
For example, regardless that Pres. Trump warned Congress that he would never sign another bloated Omnibus spending bill like he reluctantly signed earlier this year, the corrupt, anti-Trump RINO Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration continues to spend.
Trump Signs Omnibus Spending Bill: I Will Never Sign Another Bill Like This
Conservatives left frustrated as Congress passes big spending bills
Patriots need to give Pres. Trump a Congress that will support Trump’s vision for MAGA in the 2018 midterm elections.
RE: Get rid of the union for public employees.
Practically, how does one do that?
Can the President simply sign an Executive Order to get rid of it? I don’t think so, not without a court fight.
Congress can pass a law de-authorizing the union and remove the act from Judicial review.
The Civil Service Law was a tremendously bad idea. The old spoils system was, of course, corrupt but the parties engaging the corruption were changed periodically and long term entrenchment was unlikely. Civil Service did not end corruption. It firmly embedded it into the system and made it impossible to clean house. And, with the government employees being changed often they did not become themselves a political pressure group and an independent power. The corruption in the old system was honest straightforward corruption and visible to all. Now it is baked into the system and grows with the longevity of employment.
Congress can do it. What is done is the outlawing of collective bargaining. Public unions do not act directly on the Bosses. They connive with the Bosses for increases in pay and Job Tenacity but it does not cost the Bosses who dig deeper into the citizens’ pockets. Private labor unions have limits on what they can squeeze from the Bosses before they put the employers out of business because the ultimate payers won’t pay the necessary higher prices. Public Unions have no such limit. The payers are third party and have to pay. They have no choice.
Ditto to what you've written.
Also return all legislative authority to Congress where it belongs. Make those elected Congress critters do their job.
Kennedy created the unionized federal work force by executive order. It can be abolished the same way.
Yes it can. The courts will try to interfere though. But since we have a system of separated powers, the executive branch should just ignore them.
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