Anonymous
Post 01/26/2025 17:50     Subject: Is Trump turning agencies into a spoils system?
Anonymous wrote:Trump loves Andrew Jackson. AJ defined government efficiency as the speed at which he could turn his will into agency action. Efficiency had nothing to do with saving money. To create efficiency, AJ fired much of the existing agency leadership and replaced it with loyalists, a move called the spoils system because the new bureaucrats became subject to political and pecuniary corruption. Is this where Trump is headed with his actions toward the bureaucracy?



It was obvious this has always been his intention.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2025 16:14     Subject: Re:Is Trump turning agencies into a spoils system?
Yes.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2025 16:13     Subject: Is Trump turning agencies into a spoils system?
Anonymous wrote:Yes

Indeed, just look at Elon. Pay to play.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2025 13:54     Subject: Is Trump turning agencies into a spoils system?
Yes
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2025 13:40     Subject: Is Trump turning agencies into a spoils system?
Anonymous wrote:Trump loves Andrew Jackson. AJ defined government efficiency as the speed at which he could turn his will into agency action. Efficiency had nothing to do with saving money. To create efficiency, AJ fired much of the existing agency leadership and replaced it with loyalists, a move called the spoils system because the new bureaucrats became subject to political and pecuniary corruption. Is this where Trump is headed with his actions toward the bureaucracy?


How is this even a question? This is how Trump has operated forever and always will.
obturningrussian
Post 01/26/2025 13:35     Subject: Is Trump turning agencies into a spoils system?
Anonymous wrote:Trump loves Andrew Jackson. AJ defined government efficiency as the speed at which he could turn his will into agency action. Efficiency had nothing to do with saving money. To create efficiency, AJ fired much of the existing agency leadership and replaced it with loyalists, a move called the spoils system because the new bureaucrats became subject to political and pecuniary corruption. Is this where Trump is headed with his actions toward the bureaucracy?


so a system that gives loyalists to the government more riches and fails to care about its people? sounds like my home country!
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2025 12:53     Subject: Is Trump turning agencies into a spoils system?
Trump loves Andrew Jackson. AJ defined government efficiency as the speed at which he could turn his will into agency action. Efficiency had nothing to do with saving money. To create efficiency, AJ fired much of the existing agency leadership and replaced it with loyalists, a move called the spoils system because the new bureaucrats became subject to political and pecuniary corruption. Is this where Trump is headed with his actions toward the bureaucracy?