Calling for Congress to investigate? THAT is the crux of the problem. Congress is not the one with the power, it's the unelected bureaucrats and their agencies. It's just like all the other issues - Congress holds a hearing. Said bureaucrats smirk, lie, obfuscate or claim 'ongoing investigation'. Members of Congress act tough, give grand…
Calling for Congress to investigate? THAT is the crux of the problem. Congress is not the one with the power, it's the unelected bureaucrats and their agencies. It's just like all the other issues - Congress holds a hearing. Said bureaucrats smirk, lie, obfuscate or claim 'ongoing investigation'. Members of Congress act tough, give grandstanding speeches, and send the video off to their fundraising team. No one goes to jail, no one is fired, no budgets are cut. Until Congress decides to starve the beast, nothing is going to change.
Yes, ma’am! Well stated and true on every point. However Congress will NEVER decide to starve the beast because of its symbiotic relationship with it. What will force them to represent their constituencies and not their so-called CONSCIENCE? We shall see.
Trump was heading in the right direction when he started trying to relocate some of these agencies out of the DC area. The culture is toxic and everything is about self preservation. They all go to the same cocktail parties and they all get infested with the same groupthink and palm greasing.
Some of this hinges on We the People -- seems our culture/too many people look to the government - 'there ought to be a law...' - to 'fix' all that ails society. We spend billions and billions of dollars and none of said problems is any closer to being fixed. And the more laws (188K pages in the code of federal regulations!) the more enforcers, interpreters, and monitors are needed.
And with all those pages, it's easy for some group of bureaucrats on a power trip find something to go after anyone who has either gotten sideways with the Official Narrative, or is a political enemy. Just like the arcane accounting fraud language from Sarbanes-Oxley being used against the J6 protestors.
If you look hard enough, we are all lawbreakers, whether we know it or not!
Wow - that's the problem with Executive Orders - too easy for the next administration to undo them. Too bad we don't have a functioning Congress that looks out for the taxpayers funding the preservation of dead wood in these agencies.
Calling for Congress to investigate? THAT is the crux of the problem. Congress is not the one with the power, it's the unelected bureaucrats and their agencies. It's just like all the other issues - Congress holds a hearing. Said bureaucrats smirk, lie, obfuscate or claim 'ongoing investigation'. Members of Congress act tough, give grandstanding speeches, and send the video off to their fundraising team. No one goes to jail, no one is fired, no budgets are cut. Until Congress decides to starve the beast, nothing is going to change.
Yes, ma’am! Well stated and true on every point. However Congress will NEVER decide to starve the beast because of its symbiotic relationship with it. What will force them to represent their constituencies and not their so-called CONSCIENCE? We shall see.
Trump was heading in the right direction when he started trying to relocate some of these agencies out of the DC area. The culture is toxic and everything is about self preservation. They all go to the same cocktail parties and they all get infested with the same groupthink and palm greasing.
Some of this hinges on We the People -- seems our culture/too many people look to the government - 'there ought to be a law...' - to 'fix' all that ails society. We spend billions and billions of dollars and none of said problems is any closer to being fixed. And the more laws (188K pages in the code of federal regulations!) the more enforcers, interpreters, and monitors are needed.
And with all those pages, it's easy for some group of bureaucrats on a power trip find something to go after anyone who has either gotten sideways with the Official Narrative, or is a political enemy. Just like the arcane accounting fraud language from Sarbanes-Oxley being used against the J6 protestors.
If you look hard enough, we are all lawbreakers, whether we know it or not!
The Ds hated these measures and Schedule F, Executive Order 13957. Of course Biden squashed that one on his first day.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertberger/2018/05/28/president-trumps-common-sense-reform-of-the-civil-service-system-is-just-the-start-hopefully/
Wow - that's the problem with Executive Orders - too easy for the next administration to undo them. Too bad we don't have a functioning Congress that looks out for the taxpayers funding the preservation of dead wood in these agencies.