The Donald is playing Chimp and Nasty just as masterfully as Itzhak Perlman plays his Stradivarius ...
Posted on 01/19/2019 4:22:54 AM PST by Zakeet
The federal government shutdown has presented a unique opportunity for President Donald Trump to clear out the deadwood in the federal bureaucracy, saving U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars in salaries, perks, and rented office space for people who aren't doing anything productive.
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A high-ranking Trump administration official wrote four days ago in the Daily Caller that the shutdown enables Trump to get rid of people like this. As members of the Senior Executive Service, many of them can't be fired unless they're convicted of a felony, or of committing some flagrant misconduct.
... SES employees cannot be furloughed (laid off) under normal circumstances, but they can be removed during a Reduction in Force (RIF) when their positions are found to be unnecessary.
In the D.C. article, our unnamed administration official explains that roughly 80% of the federal work force in many departments, including his own, simply don't do anything. They plan shopping trips and vacations. They send out résumés for better-paying positions, perhaps without realizing that any new employer might expect them to actually get some work done.
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... on Day 30 of the shutdown, a clause is triggered in these federal employment contracts that enables RIF. The Office of Personnel Management oversees the RIF process.
... Roughly 800,000 federal employees could be permanently removed under this plan, with an annual savings of roughly $80 billion in salaries alone. Including the pensions; the government vehicles; and the rented office space, furniture, and equipment, it could be $150 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Donald is playing Chimp and Nasty just as masterfully as Itzhak Perlman plays his Stradivarius ...
Swamp draining 101.
JUST!
DO!
IT!
So this is how you pass by the protection of the illegal government union hold, brilliant! I would imagine most of the 800,000 employees are family and friends of rat politicians
Love it.
Post of the Day!
Is tomorrow day 30?
We’ll find out what he’s doing at 3:00 PM today!
Making America Great Again!
Well.... there’s the wall, er... barrier right there. And then some!
The savings from their perks will pay for a giant wall and then some.
Zero-based budgeting.
Make each one of them show their value-added or see-ya.
Including the ones who watch porn on our computers all day?
I enjoy that guy more and more with every day that goes by ... !!!
Make everyone of them go through this process. Get rid of half of them.
Roughly 800,000 federal employees could be permanently removed under this plan, with an annual savings of roughly $80 billion in salaries alone. Including the pensions; the government vehicles; and the rented office space, furniture, and equipment, it could be $150 billion.
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150B. That’s 30X Wall money!
L8r
Happy Days Are Hear Again...
You mean he’s not listening to the fatuous nincompoop, GW Bush? Why, Bush was out last night making certain the press got photos of him giving pizza to his unpaid Secret Service contingent and criticizing Trump for the shutdown - he never said a word of criticism of Obama in eight years, Clinton was his “brother” and he didn’t support the nominee of his own party. Instead, I expected him to be looking for nonexistant WMDs and yelling about “they could hit San Francisco or sumpin’ along the West Coast if we don’t invade Iraq”.
Including the ones who watch porn on our computers all day?
Related: Pornhub Reports Traffic Spike In Washington As Shutdown Drags On
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