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Federal Employees Brace for Possible Draining of the Swamp
Trump, who ran on a promise to "drain the swamp," has identified hiring freezes at most federal agencies as a top priority for his early days in office. Republican lawmakers, many of whom have long advocated for reducing Washington's workforce, are looking to cut benefits and make it easier to fire poor performers. The threats and preliminary steps taken by Congress have created anxiety for many of the government's 2.1 million employees. "People don't know what to believe, and they're in a state of uneasiness," said Witold Skwierczynski, a Catonsville, Md., who heads the American Federation of Government Employees council that oversees Social Security Administration field offices. "That's the feeling I hear. People are unsettled."Wow. Federal employees have an "unsettled" feeling about not knowing if they'll still be employed in their jobs in the coming couple of years. I'm sure no private sector workers know what that feeling is like.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2017 12:16 PM (hjpzi)
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:17 PM (8b+oT)
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2017 12:17 PM (hjpzi)
It was broken, but it was less broken than uniparty control of the federal bureaucracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:17 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2017 12:17 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Jaimo at January 10, 2017 12:18 PM (9U1OG)
Posted by: IC at January 10, 2017 12:18 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Federal Employee at January 10, 2017 12:18 PM (8b+oT)
Posted by: Sponge at January 10, 2017 12:18 PM (ooC43)
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I'll take 'things that shouldn't exist' for $500, Alex.
And people wonder why government is inefficient.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 10, 2017 12:19 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at January 10, 2017 12:19 PM (hjpzi)
Awww, poor babies. Give them some crayons and teddy bears before the door hits them in their asses.
Do it, Donald.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:19 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Work at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (8b+oT)
And people wonder why government is inefficient.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 10, 2017 12:19 PM (KUaJL)
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That's one long category.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (zdM/+)
C'mon snowflakes. You told us for 8 yeas that Preezy Imam Obama was the Jobs President. There are JOBS everywhere. The jobless rate is like .0000001%
/welcome to the jungle baby. you're gonna d*e....
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Carol at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (sj3Ax)
they'll still be employed in their jobs in the coming couple of years.
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Private sector employees call that "Monday".
Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: Drc at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (vbaSG)
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:21 PM (8b+oT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2017 12:21 PM (s6uSp)
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2017 12:21 PM (hjpzi)
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:17 PM (8b+oT)
Agreed. I worked in govt at different levels for 20 years. Fought on a daily basis against the unspeakable stupidity and arrogance of fellow bureaucrats.
Most nongovernmental employees have no idea how much power even the lowest, least educated bureaucrat has over their respective lives.
DRAIN THE SWAMP!
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at January 10, 2017 12:21 PM (nQ10o)
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The "I" key is going to get worn out on the teleprompter keyboard.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2017 12:21 PM (X7E8f)
they'll still be employed in their jobs in the coming couple of years.
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Private sector employees call that "Monday".
Posted by: 18-1
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THIS.
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (8b+oT)
Posted by: Lord Sir x at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (nFwvY)
Obama gave Fed employees a 1% across the board raise last month via executive order.
Not sure about you folks, but my pay hasn't gone up in 6 years.
Posted by: ghbucky at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (D2q91)
Therefore I say, embrace the suck.
I only hope they also break their unions. No government employee should be allowed to join a union.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (BP2E4)
Posted by: oddnot enjoying #winning still with schadenboner to prove it at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (g1MTt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2017 12:21 PM (s6uSp)
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"Are you serious? I'm a public servant! I deserve a certain lifestyle! I'm not moving to Cheyenne!"
-IRS drone looking from from some porn
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (zdM/+)
Did you catch the Story about Obama Staffers being unable to find jobs?
Pure Awesome.
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2017 12:21 PM (hjpzi)
I wonder where Josh Earnest will end up? He's got lying butt boy skilz, so there's that.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (PY9jH)
there due to eliminating all those Cost of Living adjustments.
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I hear real estate is very reasonably pricing in Flint and Detroit. And this will help HUD and the EPA focus on their missions...right?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (X7E8f)
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hahahaha
I cannot remember my last raise.
So at least 8
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:23 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:22 PM (PY9jH)
CNN.
Posted by: IC at January 10, 2017 12:23 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: East Bay Jay at January 10, 2017 12:23 PM (PvCxa)
C'mon snowflakes. You told us for 8 yeas that Preezy Imam Obama was the Jobs President. There are JOBS everywhere. The jobless rate is like .0000001%
/welcome to the jungle baby. you're gonna d*e....
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (J5mC3)
This. And ValJar and her pet still have 10 days left to create another 32 million jobs. Problem solved!
Posted by: LASue, super deplorable at January 10, 2017 12:23 PM (CLKfs)
No, I had not heard about The JEF employees unable to find jobs.
You made my afternoon.
Thank you.
Posted by: Carol at January 10, 2017 12:23 PM (sj3Ax)
AND better yet, none of her Cabinet appointments will be approved.
Posted by: Lily Formerly of HotAir (Now from AoSHQ) at January 10, 2017 12:23 PM (vivhj)
Posted by: Witold Skrbtchwski at January 10, 2017 12:24 PM (RD7QR)
Not sure about you folks, but my pay hasn't gone up in 6 years.
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hahahaha
I cannot remember my last raise.
So at least 8
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:23 PM (J5mC3)
Yea, at least 6 years for me.
Posted by: IC at January 10, 2017 12:24 PM (a0IVu)
(((
If there is no inflation and Obama cut health care costs by 3000% - why do they need a raise again?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2017 12:24 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2017 12:24 PM (BP2E4)
Posted by: ShainS at January 10, 2017 12:24 PM (mt8X9)
C'mon snowflakes. You told us for 8 yeas that Preezy Imam Obama was the Jobs President. There are JOBS everywhere. The jobless rate is like .0000001%
/welcome to the jungle baby. you're gonna d*e....
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:20 PM (J5mC3)
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Plus, most seem to be culturally averse to moving anywhere remotely conservative. Suggest moving the EPA's headquarters to Dallas, and half may just quit anyway to avoid being around a bunch of hick racists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:24 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: Chris Stevens at January 10, 2017 12:24 PM (Eeeim)
The free ride is over, bitchez...
Back some years when they had to close some government offices one or two days a week due to budget disputes, no one hardly noticed!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 10, 2017 12:25 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 10, 2017 12:25 PM (LrAXf)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2017 12:25 PM (BP2E4)
Not from where I'm sitting. It seems TFG has been in office for decades.
January 20 can't come fast enough.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:25 PM (PY9jH)
Waste??? What waste???
http://tinyurl.com/j96qdl9
The NIH also spent $3.5 million to find out why people are afraid of the dentist, and $1.3 million creating robot flowers to study bees. A $5 million study looked at the partying habits of fraternities and sororities. That study found, among other things, that frat boys tend to sleep in late.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 10, 2017 12:25 PM (2x9LM)
you let me natter along alone again!
that's it, I only like some of you.
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:26 PM (R7cwD)
They'll all collectively find out that they are "bipolar" or have "back problems" and cannot work. Ever. So... SSI for them for the rest of their life.
SSI: it's the new unemployment.
/I hope to God Trump takes care of this abuse as well..
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:26 PM (J5mC3)
It was broken, but it was less broken than uniparty control of the federal bureaucracy.
Kill them and take their lands and wimmens?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2017 12:26 PM (mZLmb)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Infested With Russians? Use Commie-B-Gon! Available at the Outrage Outlet at January 10, 2017 12:26 PM (hLRSq)
I'm pretty sure my shirt was tucked in when I sat in the chair!
Posted by: Jerry at January 10, 2017 12:26 PM (hjpzi)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (PY9jH)
Awesome. I didn't know thar compensation could be EO'd. Pay cuts!!!!!!$!
Posted by: Lord Sir x at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (nFwvY)
McCain turned 80 & I don't know where I can find list of ages of all 535 of them.
Posted by: Carol at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (sj3Ax)
The karmic effects of this sort of talk are harsh enough, but harsh language in turn invites even harsher responses from The Fates. Please bear this in mind!
Posted by: Meryl Streep at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (X4ZNp)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (BP2E4)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (qJhUV)
Wait until the porn filters are installed in Federal offices. That will really unsettle them.
Posted by: Benji Carver at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (OD2ni)
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You may recall the left claims that red states get more government funds then blue states.
A large part of that is that military bases are mostly in red states (the other part is welfare for certain lefty client groups that live in red states, but ignore that for now). Military bases congregate in the red states because it is cheaper to run them there.
By this argument alone, all government offices should be in red states...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (hjpzi)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (mZLmb)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (UEtL2)
Posted by: Scott formerly from Virginia at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (MF9ED)
Posted by: Alfred Von Neumann at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (+wjl1)
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This. And prohibit federal money to states from being used to fund union employee benefits in states with employee unions or even to administer paychecks which deduct dues, i.e., no funds into general fund, must be segregated, spent and accounted for on purpose of federal grant. Let the unions collect their own dues and the states that have them deal with pensions and bennies separate from federal monies.
Posted by: oddnot enjoying #winning still with schadenboner to prove it at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (g1MTt)
McCain turned 80 & I don't know where I can find list of ages of all 535 of them.
Posted by: Carol at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (sj3Ax)
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We'll get him in 2024. I'm sure of it this time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (2x9LM)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:28 PM (hdpay)
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Witold you this would happen.
Posted by: josephistan at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (7HtZB)
By this argument alone, all government offices should be in red states...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (X7E8f)
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Not bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (BP2E4)
they do a shitty job they get fired?
and their federal unions get nixed. why is it they can have the power while voting themselves the power and voting themselves permanent jobs, high wages and graft?and the people get nothing to say about anything they are doing, demanding ?
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Chris Stevens at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (Eeeim)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2017 12:17 PM (hjpzi)
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BREAKING: Wikileaks publishes first draft of Obama's Farewell Address/Coming-Out Party after Putin personally hacks the TOTUS --
"Fans, for the past eight years you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the duckiest trans on the face of this earth. I have been in-the-closet for twenty years and have never received anything but fawning and Nobel Prizes from you fans.
"Look at these grand mirrors. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to gaze upon them for even one day? Sure, I'm ducky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have blown Jeremiah Wright? Also, the builder of Europe's greatest empire, Abu Soulayman? To have spent six years swallowing the wonderful little fellow, Saul Alinksy? Then to have spent the next thirty years on the down low with that smart student of Taqiyya, the best lobbyist for Iran today, Valerie Jarrett? Sure, I'm ducky.
"When the Kennebunkport Bushes, a team you would give your right tit to face, and vice versa, sends you a Romney -- that's something. When everybody down to the body men and those boys in puberty remember you with herpes -- that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who lives in the White House with you at taxpayer expense -- that's something. When you have a name-donor and a mother who failed to abort so you can have free education and build no transcripts -- it's a blessing. When you have a beard who has been a tower of fashion and shown more love-of-country than you dreamed existed -- that's the finest I know.
"So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but selfies are an awful lot to live for."
-- Barack "the Iron Trans" Obama
Posted by: ShainS at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (mt8X9)
Quit frankly I think we are headed to a new civil war in this country..Now it may not be a true shooting civil war with armies and all, but I just do NOT see a way of bridging the huge chasm between real Americans and the left
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2017 12:16 PM (sRFAL)
I agree, I don't see a way to bridge the chasm, either. So I can't see any future except that there will eventually be a shooting war. On the other hand, the USSR collapsed without a huge war, contrary to my expectations, so I'm hopeful.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (bZbkb)
I'm a lifelong Republican, but I really do not see that. Larry Sabato is never wrong and he predicted Hillary will easily get at least 340 EV's. Sorry, but it will be an early night.
Posted by: Bull Wynn at January 10, 2017 12:30 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 10, 2017 12:27 PM (qJhUV)
Sustained golf clap. Even better if, when they return the next day after the storm, they find their stuff in a box outside the building with their pink slip taped to it.
Posted by: joncelli, Gobsmacked Rage Monkey and Crossbowman at January 10, 2017 12:30 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: no good deed at January 10, 2017 12:30 PM (hJamr)
Posted by: dax at January 10, 2017 12:30 PM (r0rZG)
they'll still be employed in their jobs in the coming couple of years.
I'm sure no private sector workers know what that feeling is like.
Just holding on until my options vest, then I can retire at the ripe old age of 26.
Posted by: IT guy 2 days before the DOT BOMB exploded at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (4WhSY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (tOcW/)
they Need a middleman?
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (Om16U)
Welcome to reality ass clown and an economy with 90+ million people out of the workforce
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (6n332)
It usually ends up with the useless barnacles staying, anyone with some moxie leaving, and destroys the ability to hire new, good people.
It's better than nothing, but don't kid yourselves that there isn't a down side.
The ideal solution is to eliminate the Unions and the CS protections, and keep the performers, while slashing the bottom feeders.
Posted by: pep at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (NrQPT)
Posted by: Carol at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (BP2E4)
Posted by: Steamboat McGoo at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (M6etg)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (bZbkb)
they Need a middleman?
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (R7cwD)
"I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS!"
~ Guy from Office Space who made Jump to Conclusions Board
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (8hICw)
I'm sure no private sector workers know what that feeling is like.
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I'm shocked he didn't mutter something about "let them eat cake"
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Chris M at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (y37Zc)
Also I'm so sick of hearing about oh noes Trump asked who at the DoE worked on climate change stuff as if that's somehow out of bounds.
Hell, yes, Trump has a right to know that. For that matter, you and I have a right to know that.
If you work for a public entity, then what you do as part of that job is public record. How is that difficult to understand?
Part of me really thinks it would be more honest to go back to the old days of flat out spoils system. Then everyone knows straight up that if your benefactor loses the election, out the door with you.
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (mf5HN)
Well, we're all set. We're starting a new business!
Posted by: Harf and Psaki: Pole Dancers for Hire at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (hdpay)
Is he on the Judiciary Committee?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Hermann Fegelein at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (X7MoD)
Posted by: Bull Wynn
It was an early night for Hillz only cause the wild turkey and DJT knocked her ass out, but mostly DJT
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (/CIN4)
they'll still be employed in their jobs in the coming couple of years.
I'm sure no private sector workers know what that feeling is like.
Property values are only going up!
Posted by: Realtor 1 week before the bubble burst at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (4WhSY)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (hdpay)
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Is he on the committee?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (zdM/+)
It was broken, but it was less broken than uniparty control of the federal bureaucracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
The Feds didn't have a $4 trillion budget then, nor did they have much interaction with the average citizen.
A spoils system today would turn us into Brazil overnight. Without the charm.
Oh, and considering citizenship is pretty much meaningless, a spoils system would turn the US over to a series of assholes like Soros.
No. Thanks.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (V3IFq)
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (8b+oT)
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (mf5HN)
..but this is already the current system.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: ValJar at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (gTQoY)
Posted by: Chris M at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (y37Zc)
District 1 will never be fired.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (bZbkb)
they Need a middleman?
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (R7cwD)
When you're biggest accomplishment is going on break you might need some help
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (493sH)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (8hICw)
Sure is and is senior to Basse.
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (hdpay)
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I live in Metro Detroit. I've been hearing comeback stories since the mid 80's.
Placing die hard liberals in the middle of the hood is a great idea. Let's see how their "but I self-identify as black" schtick plays when they're on a residential street with two, no three crack houses and ten abandoned houses where dead bodies are found.
Oh yea. Detroit. Make them live the liberal dream.
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (J5mC3)
and if so why would we want a govt that needs represenatives to be fair to workers?
but the citizen gets ..??
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (R7cwD)
Um ... that's two words. I think.
Posted by: Steamboat McGoo
that 3 letter word J-O-B-S
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (/CIN4)
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (/CIN4)
"Never underestimate me!"
~ Wild Turkey
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:34 PM (8hICw)
The Feds didn't have a $4 trillion budget then, nor did they have much interaction with the average citizen.
A spoils system today would turn us into Brazil overnight. Without the charm.
Oh, and considering citizenship is pretty much meaningless, a spoils system would turn the US over to a series of assholes like Soros.
No. Thanks.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2017 12:33 PM (V3IFq)
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I'm mainly hoping that it would be a very large shock to Democrats who realized what a monstrosity they've made and get at least some of them to work towards making the leviathon smaller.
But, I'm an optimist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (zdM/+)
You can sort Representatives by year of birth here.
http://tinyurl.com/h25go8v
Oldest is Conyers at 87
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (2x9LM)
Kinda like those people harassed by the IRS, EPA......
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (KtXKb)
Posted by: John Podesta at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (hjpzi)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (hdpay)
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They also know WHEN they can go on break.
So they can tell time too!
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (NOIQH)
Or the John Doe investigation in WI.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:36 PM (8hICw)
END THESE FUCKERS.
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:36 PM (8b+oT)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (hdpay)
But someone really should bring the Bass(e).
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:36 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 10, 2017 12:36 PM (/CIN4)
Now that I'm queasy, I'll skip lunch. GAINZZ
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 10, 2017 12:36 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: EPA hall crapper at January 10, 2017 12:37 PM (+wjl1)
With the exception of the military, those of you who get to stay home on snow days as "non-essential employees"? Yeah, "non-essential"....
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2017 12:37 PM (NOIQH)
It usually ends up with the useless barnacles staying, anyone with some moxie leaving, and destroys the ability to hire new, good people.
It's better than nothing, but don't kid yourselves that there isn't a down side.
The ideal solution is to eliminate the Unions and the CS protections, and keep the performers, while slashing the bottom feeders.
Posted by: pep at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (NrQPT)
It's called a good start.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 10, 2017 12:37 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: USNtakim at January 10, 2017 12:37 PM (hMqvx)
Posted by: Kramer at January 10, 2017 12:37 PM (hjpzi)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (PY9jH)
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Suggested edit.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 10, 2017 12:37 PM (kTF2Z)
join the club pal. i'm sure all the workers at govt agencies wewre srsly worried about how the average citizen was treated by govt workers and their agencies the last decade?
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:37 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Chris Matthews at January 10, 2017 12:37 PM (IqV8l)
*looks up bipolar symptoms for future reference just in case*
Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at January 10, 2017 12:38 PM (Om16U)
If you don't have degree in 1) Accounting; 2) Computer Science; 3) Engineering/Science in a Department related discipline, you're head isn't safe
If you have a law degree w/o an degree in those fields, or the word "diversity" in your title, job description or CV, here is the door. Thank you for playing our program. Here is a home-edition of our game as a lovely parting-gift
Posted by: Chainsaw Al Dunlop at January 10, 2017 12:38 PM (DpOmP)
Posted by: John Podesta at January 10, 2017 12:35 PM (hjpzi)
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Please reset your Windows admin password to 123456.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:38 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: Fritz at January 10, 2017 12:38 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (mf5HN)
..but this is already the current system.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
Srsly? Because I'm pretty sure the gimps at my local SS office will still be working there come January 21st.
I'd prefer some Republican blood in there. Office might work better.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2017 12:38 PM (mZLmb)
Grrrr. There should be a better photo of Melania's dress. Grrr.
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats at January 10, 2017 12:32 PM (mf5HN)
There is a photo of her dress? To the inauguration? What is she wearing??
Posted by: IC at January 10, 2017 12:38 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: redenzo at January 10, 2017 12:39 PM (5wSNN)
Can someone explain to me why, for f*ck's sake, the Federal Government has continued to hire people from the height of the crash back in 2007-2008 until today? When the private sector was laying off scores and scores and businesses were closing why the Fed felt the need to hire ANYONE?
As far as I am concerned the Fed should only be allowed to hire when the private sector is above a certain amount in in new, full time unemployment positions created in the new jobs report, and unemployment is under a certain amount AND private sector salaries are on the increase over a certain percentage. Secondly the Fed's employees' pay should be tied to private sector pay as follows: Private sector pay goes up? Then fed employees are eligible for a possible raise of a modest percentage - if it goes down? Then Fed pay goes down in an EQUAL percentage. These f*ckers need to be taught that the private sector is MORE important, as is the individual, not their phony baloney jobs - which are sh*t - and they should be encouraged to leave them for better pastures in the private sector . . . constantly. Encouraging people to work in government and suggesting that this is some sort of noble calling is complete horse-hockey - this is one very easy way to shrink government.
Oh and people who use their government jobs to harass private citizens for no real reason - like the jerk offs who shut down lemonade stands for not having a permit, or make a barbecue festival throw out all the food it was going to give the poor because it had not been inspected - that sort of cr*p - If I am Trump - I appoint a person whose sole job is to scan the news for these A-holes and then make sure that they are stone cold fired (or shipped to north of the Arctic circle in Alaska where a special Quonset hut will be built, with desks in it, so they can do their jobs from there if they can't be fired for some reason) - if you have time to do that sh*t then you are obviously not busy enough - meaning your job is NOT NEEDED.
Now that might motivate our bureaucracy - but I will not hold my breath waiting for this to happen.
OK done screaming for now -
And Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States.
*resets Hillary will never be POTUIS egg-timer - feels better*
Posted by: Publius Redux at January 10, 2017 12:39 PM (Fb9aZ)
I'd prefer some Republican blood in there. Office might work better.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2017 12:38 PM (mZLmb)
I was referring to the heads of the agencies only. I misunderstood the point AtC was making.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:39 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 10, 2017 12:40 PM (JNDQi)
Posted by: IanDeal at January 10, 2017 12:40 PM (teGBX)
Because of the keynesian multiplier, or some such voodoo horse puckey.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:40 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: IanDeal at January 10, 2017 12:40 PM (teGBX)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:41 PM (8hICw)
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Exactly.
Take the VA as an example. Under a hiring freeze, you will see the bloated administration and union gold-brickers protected while the need for more good docs goes unfilled.
Hiring freezes have to be selective to work at all.
Yes, you can replace the doc or PA who just retired but, no, you can't replace the assistant to the vice-chairman of diversity.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 10, 2017 12:41 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Chainsaw
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Anyone with an undergrad Political Science Degree ->OUT
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2017 12:41 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 10, 2017 12:41 PM (2x9LM)
Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2017 12:41 PM (2z74n)
Because of the keynesian multiplier, or some such voodoo horse puckey.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:40 PM (8hICw)
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"I swear. If you give me a bunch of money, it'll help the economy three times what you give me. Trust me, Paul Krugman agrees with me."
-Solyndra CEO
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:41 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (xN1DB)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (2x9LM)
The ideal solution is to eliminate the Unions and the CS
protections, and keep the performers, while slashing the bottom feeders.
Posted by: pep at January 10, 2017 12:31 PM (NrQPT)
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As a wise man once pointed out, "and then they are wandering the streets".
As an emotional catharsis , a mass federal layoff would be awesome.
Right up to the part where they all apply for unemployment and eventually begin wandering the streets with shopping carts, huffing gsoline and paint thinner and spreading crime and TB.
The resultant crime wave would make modern Baltimore and DC look like a resort paradise.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (toH8T)
the union backs their political candidate , pretty much propagandise their workers they all fluff up their income, while using their positions to reek havoc on people they dislike for polticial purpose
I cannot understand why TAX payers should have to kick in for Politicians that hate them
and we have to . no choice at all..
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (R7cwD)
Why is it convenient.? Is she thinking of going on disability?. It might be that her job loss and her divorce were a result of being bipolar Bi-polar 11 is not as severe as Bipolar !
(And NO, di not think everyone who gets divorced and loses a job is bi-polar)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (tOcW/)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (2x9LM)
SHUT UP AL FRANKEN!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Dem Buster at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (Cq3r5)
Posted by: redenzo
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Thus the contempt that the Left hold for him.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (NBHj5)
Just fake the symptoms and voila! On the dole for life.
/really was not kidding about this being the new unemployment. I believe you can also use "depression" for SSI as well.
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: IC at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (a0IVu)
Bobby Kennedy Jr. just showed up at Trump Tower. He's really scraping to meet with people. Geez, where's my invite? After all I voted for him and still didn't get my submissive Russian woman
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (493sH)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (cHQtB)
Posted by: Al Franken at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (r0rZG)
Yeah. Unfortunately, changing only heads doesn't change much. That's like changing ambassadors. Big whoop if you leave the grunts their. They can still stab him in the back.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (mZLmb)
cat eat mouse,
mouse eats cheese,
and cheese just smells.
-Stan Ridgway
Dear government bureaucrats, you are now the government cheese.
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (8b+oT)
Bobby Kennedy Jr. just showed up at Trump Tower. He's really scraping to meet with people. Geez, where's my invite? After all I voted for him and still didn't get my submissive Russian woman
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (493sH)
You just need to show up, and he'll try to make space in his sched for you.
At least, that's what I've heard.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (8hICw)
Fuck these losers.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2017 12:29 PM (BP2E4)
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I think they ought to disperse Federal offices around the country. IRS? Headquartered in Flippin, Arkansas.
Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (zSMr0)
I think his drug dealer lives there.
Posted by: tu3031 at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (qJhUV)
Feature not bug.
Posted by: Ron Swanson at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (W6Ch1)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (hdpay)
Yikes, I think Harf is a bit too bottom heavy for that job.
Speaking of which, I was watching The Wrestler the other night and the scene where smoking hot (and naked) Marisa Tomei keeps getting rejected by guys for lap dances because she is supposedly too old is hilarious. Oh Hollywood. Good movie overall.
Posted by: Benji Carver at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (OD2ni)
Such as the ones at OPM who enabled the China "hack," the CO EPA personnel responsible for the Animus river mess, the IRS employees harassing Tea Party groups, the ones at the various VA hospitals fudging the numbers while grossly delaying care, etc.
Maybe - maybe - I would have more empathy for federal employees if they were competent in weeding out the bad apples.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: IC at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (a0IVu)
=====================
I quickly looked through the guy's Twitter.
"Just because he has an Asian grandchild doesn't mean he's not racist" is apparently a good retort to people calling him out for saying that Sessions was using his granddaughter as a prop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (oiNtH)
60 Hour Work weeks normal, with no overtime.
ONLY get paid for the miles you roll...
NOT covered by State Employment Law...
Must document every minute of every day...
These are the rules laid down by the FEDERAL Government for truckers...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (qf6WZ)
Yep, she's on disability. Can't work because she's bipolar, she says.
I know here from college; she was the one person that I'm convinced hated me - obviously the sign of an unbalanced mind, LOL.
Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: Al Franken at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (r0rZG)
You're a senator because the people of Minnesota couldn't handle your attempts at "humor".
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (bZbkb)
Trump should just issue an EO stating government employees cannot
unionize and then shitcan the executive leadership of every agency. For
starters.
===
This actually might be a better approach. Can the executives and just watch those racisty UE numbers get adjusted to the actual reality of the past decade.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (LrAXf)
Posted by: Al Franken at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (r0rZG)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2017 12:46 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: scofflaw_x at January 10, 2017 12:46 PM (y9ZJX)
Posted by: joncelli, Gobsmacked Rage Monkey and Crossbowman at January 10, 2017 12:46 PM (RD7QR)
That guy is such a jerk. And, hey, wasn't his son just arrested for assaulting someone in a bar?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2017 12:46 PM (NOIQH)
Seriously? I'm not watching. I've had the pleasure of spending an hour on the line with Sprint customer service over a billing dispute I started on Dec. 21. I still haven't gotten any resolution, and "the back office" is firewalled. I can't directly call them. Such BS. Currently researching new phone plans. Not at all what I had planned today.
Posted by: no good deed at January 10, 2017 12:46 PM (hJamr)
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/254190/
Posted by: steevy
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I gotta admit, I've never jumped so fast to click on a link having anything to do with a boner as that. That is good stuff! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:46 PM (8b+oT)
I think his drug dealer lives there.
Posted by: tu3031
has an appointment with Amber on the 69th floor-IYKWIMAIITTYD
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 10, 2017 12:46 PM (/CIN4)
Think of all the money we would save.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 10, 2017 12:46 PM (3+XoG)
Fuck these losers.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (4ErVI
ok, that's why i'm having a problem with compassion at the moment.
I apologise to govt workers that aren't sinking their teeth into what remaining life and few assets I have left
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: booknlass at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (G7LgH)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: The Humongous-Ayatollah of Rock n Rolla at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (iu553)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (r/0kC)
"Just because he has an Asian grandchild doesn't mean he's not racist" is apparently a good retort to people calling him out for saying that Sessions was using his granddaughter as a prop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:45 PM (zdM/+)
Because it'd just be crazy to think that he loves his granddaughter and that when she's older, she might want to have a photo from today reminding her that her granddad thought she was important enough to remember on a great day in his life.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Emperor Trumpentine at January 10, 2017 12:48 PM (NF2Bf)
Posted by: joncelli, Gobsmacked Rage Monkey and Crossbowman
Minnesota the HOF for awful political choices
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 10, 2017 12:48 PM (/CIN4)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:48 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (kTF2Z)
=================
There's more than one.
The Wrestler
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Her naked body starts the movie, btw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:48 PM (zdM/+)
employees cannot unionize and then shitcan the executive leadership of
every agency. For starters.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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He could even site FDR on that! Even Roosevelt didn't think gov employees should be able to unionize. FDR!
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:48 PM (8b+oT)
Yes, he stole his f'ing seat. And the feckless GOPe said "Welp, OK with us! We can still come to the cocktail parties, right?"
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 10, 2017 12:48 PM (ul9CR)
I mean, he put his name on it, and he apparently didn't do so.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 10, 2017 12:48 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (r/0kC)
"SHHHHHH"
~ MN Donks
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (8hICw)
Swedish woman was
-- kidnapped
-- raped
-- tortured
-- raped again
-- imprisoned
-- gang raped
-- tortured again
-- gang raped again for an entire week
...by Syrian immigrants in Malmo.
The rapist/kidnappers/torturers were all caught and convicted.
Their sentence, for all those crime above, combined?
4 years in a cushy low-security prison.
Actually, only two of the (at least) seven rapists got four years, The other rapists GOT OFF SCOT-FREE:
http://madworldnews.com/syrian-refugees-hookah-shop-cops/
This is your nation on liberalism.
Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (jBuUi)
Because it'd just be crazy to think that he loves his granddaughter and that when she's older, she might want to have a photo from today reminding her that her granddad thought she was important enough to remember on a great day in his life.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (8hICw)
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Remember the rules: When someone that this person dislikes uses children in any form during something remotely political, it's tokenism.
When someone that this person likes uses children in any form during something remotely political, it's truth to power.
Not hard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (zdM/+)
Reducing the federal workforce is great. But whether or not that
happens, I'd like to see much of it relocated. There are a lot of
economically distressed areas of the country that could use a
200-bureaucrat facility. With the internet, there's no reason that so
much government administration needs to be dedicated to making Maryland
and northern Virginia rich.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 10, 2017 12:42 PM (xN1DB)
___________________________________________Excellent post, um, "Masterbatin' Pete. Just read somewhere that the FBI wants a new building - how about we build it in Montana? Why not move the whole EPA to Alaska right next to the oil fields - so they can protect that Tundra they feel soooooo deeply about - it would be a joy to see them try and live in Alaska without burning wood - like they are trying to tell Alaskans to do right now - Mmm hmm that would be awesome to watch that.And to those who say get rid of public unions? Agreed - they should be illegal. Period. FDR's ghost and I at least agree on that one - oh yes indeed.
Posted by: Publius Redux at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (Fb9aZ)
Every bit of news that makes you whine, 'there should be a law' = a law = more government workers.
A couple's pitbull kills some adorable kid. The true conservative position is to convict the couple and force them to work hard in a prison. The what-actually-happens conservative position is to pass several laws, that necessitate a 5-person team per county to administer.
Audit the Fed = more government jobs. Drain the swamp = more government jobs. Build the wall = more government jobs.
Posted by: dustydog at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (6BLvJ)
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (JNDQi)
Remember the rules: When someone that this person dislikes uses children in any form during something remotely political, it's tokenism.
When someone that this person likes uses children in any form during something remotely political, it's truth to power.
Not hard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (zdM/+)
I know. Just venting.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (8hICw)
They are worried, but we can just tell them we are teaching them self-reliance "for their own good". They love that phrase when they export our jobs and raise our taxes, or while they import a new people.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (/aIFg)
Srsly? Because I'm pretty sure the gimps at my local SS office will still be working there come January 21st.
I'd prefer some Republican blood in there. Office might work better.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2017 12:38 PM (mZLmb)
I was referring to the heads of the agencies only. I misunderstood the point AtC was making.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:39 PM (8hICw)
Yeah, I'm talking old school when the new party takes power everyone gets thrown out.
That's more openly graft filled then the current oh the civil service protections are there to protect from retaliation bullshit.
Annnnnnd it's finally over freezing for the first time since Friday. I can tell because the ice is sliding off the roof at work and scaring the crap out of me.
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
It's what they do. Same with Mitt Romney's family adoptions, Laura Ingraham, and others. These people have no shame.
Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: LASue, getting more deplorable every day at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (CLKfs)
if they are afraid of Trump being political about thwem? I would say if so he would also be wrong. but if the door has been opened willingly?
whose fault is this?
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (R7cwD)
I know here from college; she was the one person that I'm convinced hated me - obviously the sign of an unbalanced mind, LOL.
---
I know two people who are biopolar; one is on medication and has no problem working. The second is on medication and chooses not to work, and the government agrees.
Can he work? Hell yes.
But the government-- and his family-- is enabling him.
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (J5mC3)
Swedish woman was
-- kidnapped
-- raped
-- tortured
-- raped again
-- imprisoned
-- gang raped
-- tortured again
-- gang raped again for an entire week
...by Syrian immigrants in Malmo.
The rapist/kidnappers/torturers were all caught and convicted.
Their sentence, for all those crime above, combined?
4 years in a cushy low-security prison.
Actually, only two of the (at least) seven rapists got four years, The other rapists GOT OFF SCOT-FREE:
http://madworldnews.com/syrian-refugees-hookah-shop-cops/
This is your nation on liberalism.
Posted by: zombie
Blonde Scandi hottie misleads immigrants
Posted by: MSM headline at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (/CIN4)
Ending govt. unions is key - but you've probably not heard that idea, that concept mentioned by Trump and Co. Maybe I missed it, but I haven't heard it.
Beyond that, the mindset that made the IRS atrocity possible - I don't know how you change that. Pep, Jim from VA, and others can testify that there are lots of good people in federal govt., but that the overall mindset is usually a big problem.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (QDnY+)
The FBI has a fairly new building in Omaha (fairly new = less than 10 years old)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (8hICw)
The rapist/kidnappers/torturers were all caught and convicted.
Their sentence, for all those crime above, combined?
4 years in a cushy low-security prison.
Actually, only two of the (at least) seven rapists got four years, The other rapists GOT OFF SCOT-FREE:
http://madworldnews.com/syrian-refugees-hookah-shop-cops/
This is your nation on liberalism.
Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (jBuUi)
It's a country in need of a revolution
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (493sH)
The people who are actually competent -- yes there are some -- can still get jobs in the private sector, and will leave if/when better opportunities arise. What you'll be left with is the worst of the worst who cling to the only job they won't get fired from.
What's needed is civil service reform, so that managers can fire the incompetents.
Posted by: Eddie at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (zhOfu)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 10, 2017 12:44 PM (zSMr0)
No, thank you. I don't live too far from there.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (nUdSA)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (hdpay)
Delete your account and find some humanity.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (2vRRd)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (r/0kC)
It's what they do. Same with Mitt Romney's family adoptions, Laura Ingraham, and others. These people have no shame.
Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (oiNtH)
====================
Anything is right when done for the cause.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (zdM/+)
Ah, yes, ye olde double standard when it comes to family of Dems vs. GOP.
If a GOP person dares appear with a family member, they are "using them as a prop" and therefore must forfeit any expectation that the MSM/Left will resist dragging said family member into the fight.
Family of Dems are off-limits, always and forever, even when caught doing drugs in public, getting arrested, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 10, 2017 12:43 PM (J5mC3)
Good to know, maybe I have a career calling after all!
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (wCEn4)
Posted by: Al Franken at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (r0rZG)
*ahem*
AFGE:American Federation of Gov't Employees
AFSCME: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
AFSA: American Foreign Service Association
APWU: American Postal Workers' Union
FAAMA: FAA Managers Association
FMA: Federal Managers Association
FEW: Federally Employed Women
IAFF: International Association of Fire Fighters
LIUNA: Laborers International Union of N.A.
NAFV: Nat'l Assc. of Federal Veterinarians
NAGE: Nat'l Assc. of Government Employees
NATCA: Nat'l Air Traffic Controller Assc.
NALC: National Association of Letter Carriers
NAPS: Nat'l Association of Postal Supervisors
NAPUS: National Association of Postmasters U.S.
NARFE: Nat'l Active & Retired Federal Employees
NCSSMA: Nat'l Council of Social Security Mgmt Associations
NFFE: National Federation of Federal Employees
NLPM: National League of Postmasters
NPMHU: National Postal Mail Handlers Union
NRLCA: National Rural Letter Carriers' Assc.
NTEU: National Treasury Employees Union
OPEDA: Organization of Professional Employees of the U.S. Dept of Agriculture
POPA: Patent Office Professional Association
PASS: Professional Aviation Safety Specialists
PMA: Professional Managers Association
SEA: Senior Executives Association
To name a few
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (2x9LM)
Congrats linda, that's awesome!
Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Al Franken at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (r0rZG)
"Stop giving us a bad name!"
~ Drunk Posers
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: USNtakim at January 10, 2017 12:52 PM (hMqvx)
Annnnnnd it's finally over freezing for the
first time since Friday. I can tell because the ice is sliding off the
roof at work and scaring the crap out of me.
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats
===
Captain America shield!
lex th hick - Know what that is?
That's alexthechick without 'ace'.
Case closed.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 10, 2017 12:53 PM (toH8T)
=====
Senator Franken, with all due respect, please be quiet. If your name is on the top of a legal document, you are the first sued if stuff goes pear-shaped.
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 10, 2017 12:53 PM (MIKMs)
Cuz I'm gloating. It's not so much fun, is it gubmint drones, when YOU might face an uncertain future. Sure, you had a great time sending in armies of inspectors and enforcers from every 3 letter agency to harass Gibson Guitars or any Tea Party group trying to play by the rules; when you pile 60 page questionnaires on small private farms or businesses until they give up; when you threaten prison for possessing a single eagle feather while your other drones okay the mulching of thousand of eagles annually, and so forth.
How's about a little terror in your smug lives? It's just what the doctor ordered.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 10, 2017 12:53 PM (gAXee)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2017 12:53 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: dustydog
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All temp work. All ridding the system of permanent jobs. All good.
Posted by: Dang at January 10, 2017 12:53 PM (8b+oT)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 12:53 PM (hdpay)
I think the film makers intended to "ugly her up" for The Wrestler as a compliment to Mickey Rourke's aging wrestler character. It didn't work as she looked fantastic.
Posted by: Benji Carver at January 10, 2017 12:53 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2017 12:53 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: Max Power at January 10, 2017 12:55 PM (QCc6B)
I said "Really?" in my best Jack Benny voice. Then I switched to John McClaine "Welcome to the party, pal."
Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at January 10, 2017 12:56 PM (UgF8H)
Posted by: Eddie at January 10, 2017 12:51 PM (zhOfu)
Back in the day, I worked in a nameless government office with an obviously incompetent useless secretary that wouldn't even make Xeroxes for the staff. I asked the Department head (Full Colonel FWIW) about this and he said it was easier to put up with her than it is to divert resources to try and dislodge her.
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 10, 2017 12:57 PM (wCEn4)
Posted by: Fritz at January 10, 2017 12:57 PM (2Mnv1)
Yeah, that magical car trunk chock full o' ballots didn't hurt none, either.
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - slip slidin' away at January 10, 2017 12:57 PM (kVX3W)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 10, 2017 12:47 PM (kTF2Z)
Sorry old chum. We should have lit up the "Naked Marissa Tomei"-Signal.
Posted by: josephistan at January 10, 2017 12:57 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Buzzion at January 10, 2017 12:57 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Washington bureaucrat at January 10, 2017 12:57 PM (IqV8l)
https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/818879780917538818
"Israel has unequivocal evidence that the Obama administration led the effort to pass the anti-Israel resolution in the UN Security Council."
There's a video at that link. He may be outlining the proof in the video but I don't have speakers at work at the moment.
I'm trying not to let my nigh to Zionist view of Israel get in the way of hey I want to see proof but since Netanyahu has said we have the proof and will give it to Trump and he can reveal it to the US, I'm inclined to believe him.
Also, on a deep intellectual level, all the screendoors in all the hurricanes. Just. Sayin'.
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats at January 10, 2017 12:58 PM (mf5HN)
The rapist/kidnappers/torturers were all caught and convicted.
Their sentence, for all those crime above, combined?
4 years in a cushy low-security prison.
Actually, only two of the (at least) seven rapists got four years, The other rapists GOT OFF SCOT-FREE:
http://madworldnews.com/syrian-refugees-hookah-shop-cops/
This is your nation on liberalism.
Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2017 12:49 PM (jBuUi)
It's a country in need of a revolution
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (493sH)
Not likely going to happen. They haven't fired a shot in anger in 200 years.
Posted by: josephistan at January 10, 2017 12:58 PM (7HtZB)
...
Maybe - maybe - I would have more empathy for federal employees if they were competent in weeding out the bad apples."
Under the process set up by the unions/civil service laws, and depending on the agency, it might take months, even years of process, a couple dozen meetings, and hundreds of man-hours of work to get someone fired, no matter how incompetent. Most managers find it easier just to work around the turds than fire him. By the time you can get them fired, you may well be transferred elsewhere anyway.
Posted by: Eddie at January 10, 2017 01:00 PM (zhOfu)
Posted by: WisRich at January 10, 2017 01:05 PM (hdpay)
how many used their resources to help average joe citizen when they knew it was a shake down?
how many irs employees stood up against louis lerner and her harassing political opponents for HER 'cause'?
should people like her have lost their jobs or should average joes have paid for her to harass sickeningly your neighbor with HER power over them?
should you have allowed yourselves to be politicized?
how about just working hard with your specific skills for America not against average joes for being an average joe?
police your own and we wouldn't be as angry as we are.
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 01:05 PM (R7cwD)
It makes it easier to hunt them down if they try to escape...although really just don't give them coats or gloves. The environment will take care of the rest.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 10, 2017 01:06 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0 at January 10, 2017 01:07 PM (GiDKn)
Posted by: willow at January 10, 2017 01:08 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 10, 2017 01:06 PM (4ErVI)
Well, they believe in Darwin's theories, right?
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 10, 2017 01:08 PM (wCEn4)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2017 01:10 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: dustydog
Ahem - Dusty Dog - not sure we agree here. The White House auditing all branches of the Fed and getting rid of a bunch of employees - that is additional money for the auditor - but money well spent if it leads to jobs being cut on a massive scale.
Likewise - "draining the swamp"
The wall - ? I would put it to you that there are certain things that our government SHOULD be spending on, and a wall - which I find as part of the common defense ( See, Constitution, Preamble) is definitely one of them. I am not suggesting that the Fed should not have any jobs - just a lot, lot less.
Oh - and the "conservative response" to someone allowing their pit bull to bite someone is not to pass more laws - it IS to prosecute those persons ( if they deserve to be prosecuted) - reasonable policing is one of the jobs of government - prosecuting someone at a guitar factory for using the "wrong" kind of wood? eh - not so much.
And for someone above who advocated "civil service reform" and not a hiring freeze - because the "good people" go and the bad people end up staying - that proves my point - "good people" should not be wasting their time on cr*ppy government bureaucratic jobs - they should be innovating, creating new things, new companies, contributing to society. Oh - and the thought that government agencies would be, somehow, made "much worse" if the very few "good people" left because of a hiring freeze? I find that to be a very comical thought indeed.
And the person who posted the bit on Obama White House staffers unable to find jobs because of the current job market being cr*p - despite their former boss saying it has been just peachy" ? Thank you! Oh yes the Schadenboner is rising
"THE SCHADENBONER! IT RISES!".
Posted by: Publius Redux at January 10, 2017 01:13 PM (Fb9aZ)
Posted by: Sirius the Canine Pundit at January 10, 2017 01:17 PM (LBO1U)
These federal fukcs are lucky we're not the ruthless capitalists the chinese commies are:
Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE (undefined), which is facing U.S. trade sanctions that could severely disrupt its supply chain, is slashing about 3,000 jobs, including a fifth of positions in its struggling handset business in China, company sources said.
The sources said the Shenzhen-based company, one of the world's biggest telecoms gear makers, is axing about 5 percent of its 60,000 global workforce.
Its global handset operations will shed 600 jobs, or 10 percent of the total, with the cuts concentrated in China, where it has been losing market share.
"Cuts in the handset business in China will be beyond 20 percent," said a senior executive who has been briefed on the lay-offs, which are scheduled to be completed within the first quarter.
A local manager in one of the company's overseas branches said a 10 percent quota was given to shed staff in his department by the end of January.
"I was also given names that must go because they had tried to apply for jobs at (rival) Huawei [HWT.UL] and are therefore branded as 'unstable factors'," said the manager, who is not in the handset unit and asked not to be identified.
The company declined to comment.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0 at January 10, 2017 01:20 PM (GiDKn)
"In 2017...businesses that don't fit our strategic direction or with low output performance will be shut, suspended, merged or reconfigured, improving the company's core competitiveness," Zhao said.
Can you imagine?!?!
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0 at January 10, 2017 01:22 PM (GiDKn)
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats at January 10, 2017 12:50 PM (mf5HN)
Well, the good news is that the new ice is probably making life difficult for the rodent hordes who have taken a contract out on you.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at January 10, 2017 01:25 PM (bZbkb)
Posted by: jay hoenemeyer at January 10, 2017 01:32 PM (uvj0z)
9 more days. NINE. MORE. DAYS.
Posted by: K-E at January 10, 2017 01:42 PM (F6yoX)
What happens to these bureaucracies is that they become self perpetuating, hiring more and more staffs so they can perpetuate themselves.
A hiring freeze, held firmly for years, is a good first step, so that the bureaucracy can wear away by attrition.
I know this may rub many people the wrong way in that people will be paid to do nothing, but suppose there is an utterly crappy government program that should be abolished once and for all. What to do? Offer all the people working at it a "Go Quietly Or Else" deal: they can go home and continue to collect their pay checks, so long as they do not obstruct abolition of the crappy government program. We would still save money by shutting down the apparatus, liquidating the building and its equipments, and stopping all the trouble it causes.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 10, 2017 01:53 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Dav at January 10, 2017 01:56 PM (cct0t)
Horsefeathers!
There's ALWAYS a demand for cheap whores.
Posted by: VelvetElvis at January 10, 2017 02:18 PM (hleDf)
Posted by: ATC Guy at January 10, 2017 02:38 PM (42JMf)
Posted by: ATC Guy at January 10, 2017 02:39 PM (42JMf)
I was hired a couple years ago. Had been a contractor in another training department before that, going back to the emd of my last enlistment. I was actually an emergency hire despite the freeze at the time. But enough of the Vietnam era guys took the retirements offered that there weren't enough people left to support, maintain, and operate 72 assorted firing ranges and training facilities on 127,000 acres.
There are 68 of us and 30,000 troops.
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at January 10, 2017 03:18 PM (c04Om)
And tell these DC employees to "follow the money".
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 10, 2017 05:25 PM (o7l6R)
His agenda should be an extreme all of above to dismantle the institional left protect us from the next 3 corrupt Democrat potus. No more of this tax collector for the welfare state half ass suicide we've been doing post Reagan.
Posted by: Shiggz at January 10, 2017 07:43 PM (G7wcY)
Transparency to Mansfield the left hooks into federal government. Turning Health Care education and majority military spending back over to the states
Pass a resolution saying that American people or started are not responsible for any future debt that the federal government incurs.
Also a constituinal amendment that every 25 years each state must vote to remain in the federations and curency optional.
Posted by: Shiggz at January 10, 2017 07:47 PM (G7wcY)
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