An anonymous senior U.S. government source claims that the shut-down gives everybody the opportunity to see that upwards of 80% of government jobs are unnecessary, that most government employees only follow "process" without regard for results and spend any amount of the time on the job attending to personal matters. And if the shut-down goes on long enough, that furloughed government employees won't return and that will go a long way to a much needed permanently reduced size of government.
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The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.
They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands — administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. “Process is your friend” is what delusional civil servants tell themselves.
Process is what we serve, process keeps us safe, process is our core value. It takes a lot of people to maintain the process. Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process.
Saboteurs peddling opinion as research, tasking their staff on pet projects or pitching wasteful grants to their friends.
Due to the lack of funding, many federal agencies are now operating more effectively from the top down on a fraction of their workforce
When the agency is full, employees held liable for poor performance respond with threats, lawsuits, complaints and process in at least a dozen offices, taking years of mounting paperwork with no fear of accountability, extending their careers, while no real work is done.
Many federal employees truly believe that doing tasks more efficiently and cutting out waste, by closing troubled programs instead of expanding them, “is morally wrong,” as one cried to me.
Source: https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/14/smoke-out-resistance/
Excerpts:
The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.
They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands — administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. “Process is your friend” is what delusional civil servants tell themselves.
Process is what we serve, process keeps us safe, process is our core value. It takes a lot of people to maintain the process. Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process.
Saboteurs peddling opinion as research, tasking their staff on pet projects or pitching wasteful grants to their friends.
Due to the lack of funding, many federal agencies are now operating more effectively from the top down on a fraction of their workforce
When the agency is full, employees held liable for poor performance respond with threats, lawsuits, complaints and process in at least a dozen offices, taking years of mounting paperwork with no fear of accountability, extending their careers, while no real work is done.
Many federal employees truly believe that doing tasks more efficiently and cutting out waste, by closing troubled programs instead of expanding them, “is morally wrong,” as one cried to me.
Source: https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/14/smoke-out-resistance/
