There are entire departments and agencies that serve redundant purposes. These purposes are so ineffectually executed that it is almost like they are not even there. There needs to be a review of every single agency with the forced cutback of 25-30% of the least productive members. After that stage, look at redundant/overlapping tasking and redirect or eliminate the excess personnel and authority/responsibility to areas that are lacking. There are many areas that are underserved and there are many Federal employees that are overworked. I know most people believe that there are no Fed workers that do anything, but that isn't true at all. Some of us have a ridiculous workload that is nearly unbelievable and extremely demoralizing. A small percentage of the workforce accomplishes a large majority of productive work. The excess personnel actually impede work being completed, rather than providing assistance. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some of us are holding everything together with string, super glue and duct tape. Without the technical knowledge, skill and historical data, virtually all of our high tech technology will become useless. I work for the DoD and without us, there are systems that will break and eventually become useless that are irreplaceable. There are no civilian equivalents to many of these systems and no talent pool to draw from that can replace the lost skills. Even finding new hires to train to replace us is one of the most difficult part of our job. It takes a certain skill set and a certain type of psychological makeup to do what we do. The people that can be trained are difficult to find and are often unwilling to go to combat zones to fix critical systems. The work we do and the lengths that we go to is unappreciated, but we do it anyway because we know it is important.
My point is every beaurocratic agency that was created out of thin air in an unconstitutional method needs to be deleted...period. Delete the 4th branch of government. Not saying it must be done all at once. It has already started with the Supreme Court EPA ruling. We've only just begun.
There are entire departments and agencies that serve redundant purposes. These purposes are so ineffectually executed that it is almost like they are not even there. There needs to be a review of every single agency with the forced cutback of 25-30% of the least productive members. After that stage, look at redundant/overlapping tasking and redirect or eliminate the excess personnel and authority/responsibility to areas that are lacking. There are many areas that are underserved and there are many Federal employees that are overworked. I know most people believe that there are no Fed workers that do anything, but that isn't true at all. Some of us have a ridiculous workload that is nearly unbelievable and extremely demoralizing. A small percentage of the workforce accomplishes a large majority of productive work. The excess personnel actually impede work being completed, rather than providing assistance. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some of us are holding everything together with string, super glue and duct tape. Without the technical knowledge, skill and historical data, virtually all of our high tech technology will become useless. I work for the DoD and without us, there are systems that will break and eventually become useless that are irreplaceable. There are no civilian equivalents to many of these systems and no talent pool to draw from that can replace the lost skills. Even finding new hires to train to replace us is one of the most difficult part of our job. It takes a certain skill set and a certain type of psychological makeup to do what we do. The people that can be trained are difficult to find and are often unwilling to go to combat zones to fix critical systems. The work we do and the lengths that we go to is unappreciated, but we do it anyway because we know it is important.
My point is every beaurocratic agency that was created out of thin air in an unconstitutional method needs to be deleted...period. Delete the 4th branch of government. Not saying it must be done all at once. It has already started with the Supreme Court EPA ruling. We've only just begun.