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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would any competent person take a job with the federal government knowing they will be paid under market and subject to being fired if some political flunky doesn't like the way they look?[/quote]

It is only incompetent people who mainly care about job security. I worked at a amazing innovative start up and everyone was underpaid and there was zero job security yet it was very hard to get a job there as tons wanted to work there. Was an incubator for young talent who wanted to work on cutting edge things and have autonomy, work with best people using the latest IT and given mgt. roles at young ages based on ability rather than seniority.

None of the bright young people want to work as Feds not due to pay or job security or insecurity but due to it is older people, using dated systems and antiquated ways not open to change.

I think Trump cleaning house and dismantling Fed agencies and freezing hiring and firing is like in the late 1970s when the whole South Bronx pretty much burned to the ground via massive Arson fires set over a few years. Once the buildings all burnt to ground it allowed a rebuilding phase and the South Bronx in those very crackhead infested sections of abandoned buildings with Pitt bulls and gun shots are now Single Family Homes, Condos, Coops and newly built affordable rental projects and thriving stores.

Sometimes you have to burn it to the ground. And in 2030s our children and our children children will fix what Boomers and Millennials destroyed. Our Grandparents the Greatest Generation made Govt great and show what it could do in WWII and sadly you destroyed it.  Time to rebuild.  [/quote]

There is so much wrong with your post that I don’t even know where to begin.

Maybe let’s start with the idea that government is full of a bunch of inflexible dinosaurs. 🦕

Can you name an organization that has a complete change of upper management and priorities every four years and carries forward without a hitch?  Because that’s what government and the military do.

Naturally this limits “autonomy.”  If every individual has “autonomy” the organization cannot flex every few years to meet new goals.  Government is about structure and following the law.  This isn’t a weakness; it’s a strength.  People in the private sector fundamentally don’t understand this.

Further, you state that everyone wanted to work at your startup because you had the latest tech- this requires investment that voters and Congress are simply not willing to make.  Federal buildings are not even adequate.

I actually question the premise of investing in “tech” rather than people.  Maybe that works for some fly by night startup that no one depends on but government needs to work.  It can’t be “burnt to the ground” as you say because actual human beings depend on government services.  Companies can screw up and burn themselves to the ground because no one actually needs them and there are always competitors waiting in the wings.  There’s no competitor for government and it needs to be run with a seriousness of purpose that honestly, I am not seeing in private sector people.[/quote]

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