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misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 11:15 AM Jul 2016

Donald Trump and Chris Christie are reportedly planning to purge the Civil Service

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12233454/christie-trump-purge-federal-employees

Donald Trump and Chris Christie are reportedly planning to purge the civil service

Updated by Dylan Matthews on July 20, 2016, 12:30 p.m. ET

Why?
Reuters’s Emily Flitter reports that Christie told a donor meeting on Tuesday that Trump will try to purge the government of Obama appointees, out of "fear that Obama may convert these appointees to civil servants, who have more job security than officials who have been politically appointed."

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Christie and Trump would seek to replace the current civil service system, which involves extensive protections meant to keep workers from being fired for political reasons, with a system specifically designed to make it very easy to fire workers for political reasons.

Revolving door government, but without actual revolving
Flitter also reports that Christie and Trump want to "let businesspeople serve in government part time without having to give up their jobs in the private sector." Ostensibly, the purpose of this would be to allow the government to recruit better private sector talent.

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The Christie/Trump proposal would allow that kind of revolving door to take place without actual revolving. Regulators could be working for the companies they’re regulating as they’re regulating them.

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Weakening that system has costs. It could imperil the reputation and standing of the federal government, and produce rules and regulations that let industry act with impunity and cater to the whims of Congress members with affected businesses in their districts. And letting business people come in and be regulators while still running their businesses, as Christie and Trump are proposing, runs against the very purpose of having an independent federal bureaucracy at all.

(And yes this maneuver is based in racism & exclusion)

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Trump and Christie are reviving a very old tendency in the Republican party, associated with the "Stalwarts" after Reconstruction. Once federal troops had pulled out of the South and national Republicans had given up the project of robustly enforced racial equality in the former Confederacy, the GOP split into two factions, divided entirely on their views about the propriety of patronage.

The Stalwarts, led by former President Ulysses S. Grant and New York Sen. Roscoe Conkling, defended patronage as necessary for building political coalitions, and moreover as one of the few means of advancement for black Americans after Reconstruction fell short.

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Donald Trump and Chris Christie are reportedly planning to purge the Civil Service (Original Post) misterhighwasted Jul 2016 OP
When you politicize the courts and the civil service system, is that a coup? nt procon Jul 2016 #1
I believe the coup has been going on for some years now. misterhighwasted Jul 2016 #2

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
2. I believe the coup has been going on for some years now.
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 11:55 AM
Jul 2016

And though the TeaParty is its visible face, its all we see on the TV news.
But there's a big old septic white belly sitting under the fat neck of the Teaparty's face.
Trump is leading the threat to our US Constitution & American existence.

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