Not so. “As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the president’s next move at shuttered government…
Not so.
“As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the president’s next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down… Federal employees are starting to feel the strain of the shutdown. I am one of them. But for the sake of our nation, I hope it lasts a very long time, till the government is changed and can never return to its previous form… The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.”
Going on to accuse their coworkers of laziness, graft, and ineptitude — all entirely funded by private sector taxpayers — the anonymous writer excoriates the increasingly large and increasingly lumbering federal service for any number of wrongdoings, most notably the sin of dogmatic abeyance to “the process.” Paperwork for paperwork, meetings over nothing in particular, and no incentive to produce results — lest your position then be considered redundant — the vast majority of workers, many of them working for minimum wage at the McDonald’s and Burger King restaurants recently mocked by the press, may be unlikely, and indeed unable, to sympathize too much.
Great, anonymous op-ed in @DailyCaller today: I’M A SENIOR TRUMP OFFICIAL, AND I HOPE A LONG SHUTDOWN SMOKES OUT THE RESISTANCE
Take a read. Makes a lot of sense—and echoes the bureaucratic rot that I hear from many friends in and around government.
