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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenior Trump Official' On Shutdown: 'We Do Not Want Most Employees To Return' TPM
Get ready for right-wing think tank privatization plans to be implemented.
You know what letting the lowest bidder do the job gets you? A BAD job.
Now that we are shut down, not only are we identifying and eliminating much of the sabotage and waste, but we are finally working on the presidents agenda, the official wrote, adding in conclusion: Wasteful government agencies are fighting for relevance but they will lose. Now is the time to deliver historic change by cutting them down forever.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senior-trump-official-anonymous-daily-caller-op-ed-shutdown-federal-workers?fbclid=IwAR0T6OTM4NSpAvW6q5rA8PFtwgkMDT-2eTblgXkcTTyl3at6XHvbdLPG8_E
Squinch
(51,087 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,772 posts)superpatriotman
(6,254 posts)Followed by Shock Doctrine followed by free market solutions
tavernier
(12,416 posts)Sounds just like him.
Hes trying to figure out a way to pocket the excess.
klook
(12,174 posts)bdamomma
(63,962 posts)perhaps
superpatriotman
(6,254 posts)Helping divide the public spoils with the .45 organization getting a taste of everything.
Me.
(35,454 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,254 posts)The more workers will leave for other jobs, thus relieving the feds of paying unemployment.
The thing is, it's always the BEST people who find new jobs first, leaving behind the dregs (relatively speaking). Race to the bottom, step right up.
bdamomma
(63,962 posts)to privatize everything including air travel.
shanny
(6,709 posts)I think Dunning-Kruger is in effect here: i.e. I think it will backfire.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,254 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Bayard
(22,233 posts)This was the purpose of the wall fight afterall. Next stop, martial law. This will be used as an excuse to not have an election in 2020.
hedda_foil
(16,379 posts)area51
(11,943 posts)Mmm-kay, you're saying that the Secret Service needs to be dismissed, as they're working w/o pay?
live2011
(101 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)dating back as far as union busting reagan.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Guarantee it. This is precisely his brand of stupid.
area51
(11,943 posts)UTUSN
(70,788 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,412 posts)https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25896024/trump-official-daily-caller-government-shutdown-native-american-services/
More than a third in federal taxes? From 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States
You had to be in the top 1% before you paid a third of your income in federal taxes. And that was before Trump gave a handout to the top 1%, so that's probably not true now. Top 0.5%, perhaps?
Mc Mike
(9,116 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)anti-regulation right-wing donor classes that have taken increasing control of the GOP since around 1980. They want an end to taxes on them and an end to the ability of voters to stop them. The Daily Caller's a rotten source, of course, but the goals of all these groups would be furthered and TPM considered it worth reporting.
Note, this does not necessarily have to be from Trump, but could be someone busily pushing him into creating chaos.
This Vox article has a graphic that shows WHAT PROPORTION of workers are furloughed from which government agencies.
Such as DHS 14.7%, DOI 66.5%, EEOC 84.5%, EPA 95%.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,554 posts)That donor class keeps buying more critters to install in government.
We need to regain control from the oligarchs.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)of course, but that too few will take a half-hour stand for democracy and too many are so easily suckered into supporting evil.
Speaking of, I see a lot fewer posts here these days claiming to not vote for either party as a matter of principle. Presumably seeing what not voting against evil brought us to, so that's an advance.
Johonny
(20,956 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Do we get a dictatorship?
superpatriotman
(6,254 posts)So yes. A dictatorship.