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Everyone is calling on Trump to drain the swamp. I want him to do so. But while he can replace those who serve at the pleasure of the president, I am sure many of those with civil service protection will be able to retain their jobs due to the difficulty of firing civil servants (an oxymoronic term, in my opinion, as few are civil and many believe they are our masters, not our servants).
So how to deal with them? Especially those in regulatory agencies that will try to block Trump's agenda.
Well, if you cannot fire them, reassign them. Strip them of their responsibilities, put them in offices with no windows, no phones, no electronic equipment, and with walls that block cell phone transmission. Require them to be on-site with no work-from-home. Give them plenty of pens and papers and paper copies of the Federal Regulations for their agency. Also instructions on how to hand-edit text. (STET anyone?) Have them red-line assigned sections of those regulations by hand, to simplify them, both in terms of readability and intent.
Monitor their arrivals and departures — maybe put in old-fashioned time clocks and have them punch in and out like 20th-century factory workers. Monitor their daily output. (Set a quota of 50 to 100 pages a day.) If they fail to deliver, build up a file on them - dock their pay.
With luck, most will quit within 90 days. If not? At least they are no longer doing any harm. Yes, we have to continue to pay their salaries, but that is cheap compared to the damage they do to the US economy in their current positions.
Meanwhile, backfill their old jobs with people picked by Musk and Ramaswamy.
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Going to need strategies to deal with their unions. The unions will sue if we do a tenth of that, especially to any members of protected classes.
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I don't think the class of workers that make policy are in unions. I don't see it at NASA, for instance. We are talking the higher GS levels - GS 9 to GS 15 - the ones where promotion is supposed to be on "merit."
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Candle, quill, and inkwell: that's all the monks needed to copy masterworks, so it's good enough for admin code.
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I love your ideas, @Seawriter. And the sooner, the better!
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If we end the existence of every damn agency, it might be an end run around the matter of the perpetual secret government employees.
At the CDC, NIH, NIAID, and FDA these newly unemployed can go back to working for their real employers: Big Ag, Big Pesticide, Big Pharma and various other industries like the food processing industry that are involved in inflicting Americans with toxins.
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