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So. The Daily Caller decides to publish this opinion piece by a ‘Senior Official’ in the Administration, whereby the official basically says:
- Government agencies are wasteful;
- 80% of Government workers are non-productive; because
- They have no incentive because they cannot be fired;
- The process of administering government regulations is wasteful;
- Government employees use ‘research’ to sabotage the Administration’s agenda;
- Government is working ‘more effectively’ from the top down because there aren’t those staffers mucking up the process with the process (i.e. — following government regulations handed down by law) by only having a handful of essential government workers run everything;
- Government works from the bottom up because workers at the bottom have been empowered with the expression of their ideas and that slows down the process;
- Government thinks that more ‘complaints’ are a good thing because that shows how inclusive the process is and it’s cheaper to pay off complainers than face the real problems of federal workers who are not doing their jobs;
- Government workers tout programs that are ineffective because they are their ‘pet projects’ and Federal Supervisors can’t do anything about it;
- Trump can put an end to all of this with a long shutdown because govt can finally re-prioritize what is important and weed out the saboteurs;
- This person doesn’t want most of the federal employees back anyway because the government works better without them (but he/she feels sorry for them being plummeted into debt and despair);
- Trump doesn’t really need Congress to address border security and he doesn’t need Congressional funding to deconstruct abusive government agencies;
- Trump needs to add to his demands that the Federal employees who are resistors and saboteurs need not return; and he/she closes by stating —
Secondly, we need savings for taxpayers. If this fight is merely rhetorical bickering with Nancy Pelosi, we all lose, especially the president. But if it proves that government is better when smaller, focusing only on essential functions that serve Americans, then President Trump will achieve something great that Reagan was only bold enough to dream.
The president’s instincts are right. Most Americans will not miss non-essential government functions. A referendum to end government plunder must happen. Wasteful government agencies are fighting for relevance but they will lose. Now is the time to deliver historic change by cutting them down forever.
I would comment on this, but I think it’s best that all of you do. I do have one question though — who gets to determine who is truly essential and who is not? I mean, it’s not a good look when the Treasury Department decides to recall 46,000 IRS staffers to work without pay to process tax returns….