He wants a dramatic overhaul of labor laws. It’s long overdue. They’re a relic of the thirties.
I haven’t read the proposal, but it’s worth noting that he could eliminate public-employee unions with the stroke of a pen. That’s how Kennedy created them.
While we’re at it, I want someone to make a campaign issue of reforming the civil service laws. The federal workforce is severely bloated. There are reports of deadbeats, on-the-job porn watchers, people who abuse government credit cards, people who abuse citizens, etc., yet it is very difficult to fire anyone regardless of reason. It’s time to reform the civil service laws that make it easier to fire government employees for cause or as needed to reduce the number of employees.
I’d do it by instigating infighting.
“If you can show, and then demonstrate in practice, how the needed work of any (now fired) non-field agent can be replaced for less than half their total yearly cost, you get half their yearly pay as a bonus.”
A porn-watching robot should be easy enough to script – and quite lucrative under these rules.
“The needed work?”
98% of them or thereabouts aren’t needed.
Everyone who sits on a “Diversity committee,” gone. Every Affirmative Action featherbed hire in a do-nothing job, gone. Every bureaucrat who makes all of us poorer just by existing, gone.
Give me half an hour and I can replace most of the Federal government with a PERL script. A very, very short one.
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Agreed. Reagan showed the way to handle federal employment downsizing when he fired the entire air traffic controller workforce and replaced it. At a bare minimum the IRS and EPA also need to be PATCO-ized.