Go for it! Most “civil servants” couldn’t even get a job in the real world, and certainly the heads of departments or agencies are for the most part political hacks who have only made their living by clinging to the Democratic Party, which is mainly the one in favor of expanding bureaucracy to cover every single facet of every life...and making those jobs the most desirable of all, because they are allotted on the basis of many things which have nothing to do with competency. And then they can never get fired. What better?
Lay them off, let them collect unemployment, and let them and their bosses (most important of all!) go out and get jobs in the real world.
Keep the essential stuff, but get rid of all this other nonsense and don’t think of hiring people for civil service because “how else could they get a job?” Literally, I heard that in NY for a government program.
I’m sure there are many very efficient and very good people who are “civil servants,” but they will be fine in the private industry world. And the others who won’t be fine might actually need to do a little career development and retraining and find a job that encourages their skills and capacities.
Been living in the DC area for 30 years now and for 30 years now I’ve been hearing stories about employees that do nothing and can’t get fired.
I believe it. Worked at VA hospitals in the past... same thing. Unbelievable laziness! Never fired!
60 Minutes did an episode years ago on a VA I just left. The nurses would drop off a food tray for a QUADRAPLEGIC patient, come back later and say “Oh, you’re not hungry.” and take the tray away. The other patients had to feed the guy.
Lesson here... Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for yourself.
What I’d like to know is this... are the IRS AGENTS, those responsible for confiscating your assets and garnishing your wages and scouring the world for your foreign bank accounts considered essential or non-essential?
If essential, why are they more essential than the US COAST GUARD?