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There’s bipartisan agreement that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is inefficient, using antiquated and vulnerable computer systems. But after 18 months of trying to eliminate an agency that employs 5,500 bureaucrats, President Trump now says he won’t. Despite telling campaign crowds he would cut the size of government so fast your head will spin, he has accomplished no substantial reductions in the size or scope of the federal bureaucracy. Should Republicans abandon their talk of ending the era of big government and just accept that once a federal agency starts, like OPM did in the 1970s, it will live on eternally?
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10 replies on “Now Trump Won’t Eliminate Inefficient Agency That Employs 5,500 Bureaucrats”
The government needs the OPM function. Put on a hiring freeze for an extended period and forbid the hiring of contractors to fill jobs that you have removed.
Also a lot of the bloat of government comes from the requirements of federal laws – so that needs be addressed as well.
Good luck . . .
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I’ve actually worked for OPM. Eve if you eliminate the agency, all of its functionality (and personnel) simply get shoehorned into a different agency.
And that was exactly the proposal, to divide up responsibilities between White House and GSA.
Lincoln lamented that after his inauguration, with the civil war raging, that he was constantly beset by petitioners to be “postmaster of podunk”.
Could you imagine the caterwauling if he announced that he’d be laying off 5500 people a week before Christmas?
This is so accurate (starting around 16min) and i was waiting for someone to say exactly this for so long – thank you Bill!
If Donald Trump is going to dismantle the “deep state”, then they are going to fight back with everything they got, and they have a lot of power and connections, so this is exactly how it should look like
They are fighting this way, cause this one is the battle of their lives…
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No one. Absolutely no one has the right to be supported involuntarily by another. The other side of that coin is that no group of individuals has that right either. Yet involuntary support is exactly what a huge majority of government employees expect, demand, and are willing to use the gun of government to enforce.
An agency of government has no inherent right to exist and no employee of that agency has a right to his job. They exist at the pleasure of We the People. We can and should withdraw our support early and often or expect our substance to be consumed by that government.
Unfortunately, it is the nature of government to grow to do exactly and only that. Hence, one of the more important statements by George Washington: “government is a dangerous servant and a lethal master.”
The so called elected politicians, almost to a person, supports such a violation of individual rights because that is the foundation of their power of office. It is the power to make people do what they would not otherwise do is EXACTLY why they seek office – either elected or appointed. That We the People “elect” those politicians does not make that violation of individual rights valid and proper.
Government unleashed is the ultimate catastrophe for beings living and working to thrive on earth. Any government must be held on a tight leash and constrained to be strictly and severely limited in function and power. Otherwise, the society governed will soon collapse in ruin. Again, see the 20th century for instructive detail.
We have a choice, either we fully respect individual rights or we follow the law of the jungle where might makes right. There is no third way.
Thank you Bill for mentioning the people who work for the government as generally good and being effected by cuts I “are” one. Where I worked the whole building was being shut down with over 1000 people being effected. We had notice of 3 years. We could transfer, get new jobs, get a buyout of trade with someone who wanted a buyout. And FYI… There are some people here that should be fired, just like anywhere else. However, this place base too many middle managers. It’s like the 60’s in that sense.