Stop, you don’t have to give me reasons to support Trump
Trump admin fires early-career federal workers. It could alter the future of government.
Federal agencies have slashed many early career recruiting and development programs as the government trims spending — and employees worry the cuts could drastically alter how the government operates.
These annual training programs — which last anywhere from a couple months to two years — have long been pipelines for hundreds of mission-driven college graduates and career-switchers into full-time public service. They were heralded by the Biden administration, which aimed to bolster recruitment of younger professionals in the face of an aging federal workforce gearing for retirement.
Right there is a big problem: mission driven. Because it’s their mission, not the stated mission of the federal agency. So many want to put their own beliefs, usually far left ones, onto what’s going on. They do not care what Americans want or need from an agency: it is a means to a dogma.
The confluence of the early-career program closures and mass departures means knowledge about arcane government workings could disappear. One result is it’ll be easier to undermine or eviscerate certain functions of federal agencies, said a HUD attorney who participated in the legal honors program.
Excellent. The business as usual garbage needs to go.
Six current and recently fired government staffers — most of whom participated in these programs — say they worry about the future of the federal government as early career program participants receive terminations. Trump and Musk have let go workers who guided years of opaque operational and policy decisions through probationary staff cuts, which also affected mid and late-stage workers who just received promotions. Simultaneously, they have seeded agencies with loyalists looking to undercut traditional government functions they see as bureaucratic bloat.
Change is hard, buttercups. Innovate or whither. If government were a private company they’d be Enron, not Amazon. They’d be Blockbuster, not Netflix. It’s time to get back to working for We The People, not for your own beliefs. Time to stop pissing taxpayer money away. And probably pocketing it. There was a time, less than 50 years ago, when the saying was “you don’t get into government to make money (though the benefits are great). You get in to help people.” Now it’s about being Little Dictators.
NEW POLL: Americans overwhelmingly support President Trump’s agenda.
(Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll, Feb. 19-20, 2025) pic.twitter.com/ZYWb43fYY8
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 24, 2025
I included the 2nd because it includes the breakdown by party. 76% support eliminating fraud and waste. Even 62% of Dems. It’s worth looking at those others, though, they aren’t related to the post.
How does he do it every time? Scott Jennings Just ENDED a CNN Host for Attacking Dan Bongino – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-does-he-do-it-every-time-scott.html
Winning an argument against a CNN host doesn’t “end” them. They are impervious to facts, logic, or even memory of what they said yesterday.
It would be a great thing if people didn’t see government jobs as careers. Not just in Congress: we need term limits for all federal government employees!
I’d make a term limits exception for people whose jobs include actual work: doctors, nurses, the military and real researchers and scientists, janitors, HVAC techs, etc. But bureaucrats? Nope! Ten years and it’s hit the road!
Depends on what the job is. There are some things that progress from entry level to executive, where the executives needs the personal experience of having come up through the ranks. Some careers take longer than 10 years to become expert. For example, the largest federal bureaucracy, the US Army, doesn’t let people with 10 years experience become generals. Federal government also hires doctors (at the VA) and lawyers. Personally, I don’t want a doctor operating on me who is right out of Med school (though, many in the VA and military are just that). But the ones looking forward to careers progress through the ranks, civil and military ranks) as they gain experience and take on teaching, mentoring and supervisory roles. Many of the jobs being openly recruited on USA JOBS require more than ten years experience.
The point of your argument isn’t lost. Government employees need to be productive, accountable, and worth what they are paid. If those things are met, it shouldn’t matter if they are doing it for 40 years.
Simpler jobs, like bus driver, have been contracted out decades ago. Thus, it doesn’t matter to the government how long the same driver sits in the same seat doing the same job.
According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), federal employees stay for an average of 11.8 years, with many working for the government for less than 10 years.
But why shouldn’t a federal employee view their job as a career?
The concept that each new administration should fire all the government workers and replace them with partisans would be counterproductive.
We definiely should explore term limits for Congress and the courts. Or at least, age limits. The Supreme Court needs to be reformed.
Senators comprising the Senate are old multimillionaires. Our House members are perennially campaigning.
The headlines for CLICKS are becoming more and more sensationalized.
Every day I see headlines like TRUMP JUST IMPEACHED BIDEN. Trump ends Kamala. Ends….ends….ends.
Yet the next day, Biden is not impeached, and in fact, if I choose to watch the video, nowhere in it is the headline even remotely approached.
I watched a YouTube video a couple of months back in which a Filipino guy sang an Air Supply song, and the guy was awesome. The video showed him on the Americas Got Talent stage, and the judges reacting to his singing with weepy eyes.
It turns out it was AI-generated.
Do not take for granted what you are hearing or seeing on YouTube any longer with AI. Probably three-fourths of the content on YouTube that you would watch is AI-generated, or indeed, AI does the speaking.
You can tell Microsoft’s pilot to write you a program that dials your phone or a thousand other things. It will. It will not be long before mankind never gets out of bed because there is no reason for it.
AI will ensure that Global warming is a nonissue because humanity won’t give a shit one way or another.
Do we need all these government workers? No. AI will see to that. In fact in 20 years you will be hard pressed to find an actual worker anywhere that uses their brain. AI will even be digging the ditches and laying the bricks.
AI is the epitome of evil. It will do a lot of good before it becomes really, really bad.
Or avoid YouTube.