Few candidates can say that they can guarantee to deliver on pledges made on the campaign. However, unlike past candidates who have pledged to shrink the federal government, Donald Trump can show that he has already delivered with the result of the recent survey by Government Business Council that found at roughly 1-in-4 federal employees would consider leaving their jobs if Donald Trump is elected president.
Some 14 percent said they would definitely leave while 11 percent said they might leave.
Trump could actually gain votes by highlighting study. After all, during the Reagan terms, the federal workforce increased by about 324,000 to almost 5.3 million people. Trump can promise a reduction of 17 percent by just getting elected.
Good riddance to the 14% and, one hopes, to the other 11%.
“Trump Delivers on Pledge To Shrink Government”
Sorry. The American Founders already did that.
Preamble
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Done deal.
Government is limited to security and infrastructure creating an environment conducive to freedom and free enterprise without interference by government, as the “blessings of liberty.” There is NO mention and deliberate omission of Central Planning, Control of the Means of Production, Social Engineering or Redistribution of Wealth.
Simple, huh?
Sorry Miner, that comment was obviously for Monty Z.
Miner,
What you are advocating for is a bureaucracy that should be empowered to do anything as long it is perceived as a public good. You rightly decry corporatism and in the same breath salute the very unelected bureaucrats appointed by the elected to carry out their agenda. Your hypocrisy is precisely the point of my “house divided” comment.
A prime example of this is some recent Sanders’ supporters being asked why they support him. They are against the billionaires influencing government. When told that Soros and other billionaires funded the Sanders event they were at they said they were okay with that. Billionaires are apparently okay as long as they support the right agenda.
What progressivism has brought us is a nation whose allegiance is no longer to a “constitutional republic” but rather to left or right leaning ideologies. Our house is divided between your vision for more of the progressive, bureaucratic state (both R & D) and my constitutional republic. If you cannot see that this is the real divide that threatens the “public good” then it is you that doesn’t have a clue.
Oh, wow. There really could be a silver lining. Who knew?
A bloated bureaucracy is inefficient and unaccountable. Plus it spreads.
Olly and Miner:
You guys don’t have a clue as to what you’re talking about.
It was a bureaucrat who tried to warn us that the Bush Medicare prescription plan was going to cost several billion dollars more than administration claims, and was threatened with termination if he testified before congress to that effect.
It was bureaucrats who tried to warn us that there were no WMD’s in Iraq, and that there was no connection between Saddaam and the 911 terrorists.
It’s bureaucrats who continually try to warn us about collapsing fisheries, and the risks of oil pipelines to aquifers, and of CAFO’s to rivers and lakes, and of the impacts fossil fuel burning to air quality and the their effect on climate change (Hint: It’s really happening and our energy use is accelerating it.
I could also mention that it was bureaucrats who tried to sound the alarm over the Flint poisoned water supply.
The point is that it isn’t the bureaucracy that’s the problem, it’s the venal politicians that hamstring our government in the service of multinational corporations
25%? That’s what I’d call a good start to trimming the bloated and inefficient federal workforce.
My dad used to tell me “Son, one of the functions of government is to provide employment for the sick, the lame, the weak and the otherwise unemployable,” and he is still right. Every so often the executive branch and the legislative branch arrive at loggerheads over budget issues and the federal government effectively shuts down. For those of us not associated with government employment in the DC area, these are the best of times. There is no traffic on the beltway, the feeder streets aren’t jammed with people who can’t drive, and the only ones who notice any other difference are the freeloaders who can’t collect their transfer payments for a day or two.
So go ahead, elect Trump, and let’s get a good start on making the federal workforce less bloated. Most of function of the federal government is run by contractors anyway.
The ‘progress’ that has been made towards fundamentally transforming America has our country leaving us. Lincoln had it right in his “House Divided” speech. Consider 21st century progressivism replacing the 19th century issue of slavery. We cannot be both a constitutional republic and a centralized, administrative state. It is principally correct for the people to clamor for a return to the limited government the framers intended. Those that will voluntarily leave their government jobs or even better, leave our country are free to do so. We’ve tried it the progressive way and it has been a disaster. Here is a portion of Lincoln’s speech:
” If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation.
Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.”
Trump has a few red meat phrases that makes his supporters’ tongues hang out, but other than that he is vapid and insubstantial. Iowa, we love ya, I’m gonna buy a farm here. Give me a bleeping break. Every election of the last 20 years, I threaten to not vote at all. This might be the one.
Good, let’s hope they leave their jobs and emigrate while they’re at it. I hear Belgium is looking for more useless bureaurcrats.
Well that is yet another survey Trump can use to garner even more support.
That is enough to make me vote for Trump.
Clinton is adopting the current administration’s mantra. . . . Nothing new here!
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I just wish it was true, that they would leave the country. If we could get rid of 20% of the Democrats simply by electing Trump, that would be an improvement.
I watched Hillary’s speak last night and cringed as she made it plain that she would not work with the Republicans if she were elected but would block us and stop us at every turn.
I just want a candidate that would be President of all the people and not just their political party. Even if that candidate was a Democrat, if that candidate would be President of everyone in the country, seriously hearing the concerns of everyone and working toward bringing mutual understanding and compromise, that candidate would have my support.
The two Daves are correct (I wanted to say “right”, but thought better of prejudicing the comment).
So…. make it three Daves on the combined theme. All politics are BS, Trump is a bad “reality” TV show in process and the media is just looking for any kind of “wreck” to sell on the teaser for the 6 o’clock news.
Here’s the rub: The middle of the bell curve will buy almost any kind of titillating thing they promote.
Trump is the Kardashian of American politics. And the media are obsessed exactly the same.
Isn’t politics all BS anyway?
Nick Spinelli, yeah, pretty much.
BS! Just like all the idiots who say “If [Fill in the blank] wins the election I’m moving to Canada/France/Denmark.” 100% pure BS.
Cruise with Cruz.