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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who can point to an exact law Congress enacted that justifies their job, and are superior at doing said job. Most people in government have survived by inserting themselves into the 23-step approval process for anything and they’re glorified paper pushers with the title assistant deputy to the deputy chief’s assistant. That’s all going away.[/quote]

Yep. I am not wishing for anyone to lose their jobs but as an experienced private sector veteran, corporations reduce their headcounts all the time for fiscal reasons and low performers are gently laid off. It's clear Trump is looking for a more resilient, nimble and efficient government and part of that has to be much greater flexibility to change the personnel as needs require rather than a system of institutional tenure that shuffles low performers from department to department. [/quote]

“Experienced private sector veteran” = “I feel certain I know a ton of stuff about the inner workings of the federal government, which I never though about before until yesterday.”[/quote]

Private sector with a lot of federal contracting exposure. There's plenty of grift in the government and plenty of wastage and inefficient staffing. It can be a problem. It rewards some while bogging down others. No one wants to be told their job is useless or they do something that can be combined with multiple other roles in a private company. But it's true enough. "inner workings of the federal grovernment" means following endless arcane rules and processes delaying everything in order to protect one person's job or one little department that needs to justify its existence. Endless busywork and meetings and shuffling of papers.

Most people are not losing their jobs. We're not facing a situation where 80% are laid off. But I do see 30% being realistic. [/quote]

As if federal contractors don't grift. I've seen high priced contractors grift so hard trying to make problems seem so much more exaggerated than they really are to ensure they can keep the work. It's always very obvious when that's what's going on and it's so unnecessary because there's plenty of work to do without that. [/quote]

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