Trump Issues Executive Orders Freezing Federal Hiring

>>102910
This is a good thing so that when the situation arises, the national park service can hire extra firefighters, or the national hurricane forecast center can hire extra workers during an incoming storm, or the USGS can hire an extra earthquake monitor, or any one of a million other things. There are always unintended consequences. Just wait until next time the government shuts down.

>>102914
>ust wait until next time the government shuts down.
I remember this happening twice and nothing eventful occurred. Most didn't even notice.

>>102917
except all the old people who needed their medicare you moron. and the poor kids who no longer got fed at school.

get ready for people to start dying of easily curable illnesses like in any third world country. haha. putin is soo fucking stoked.

>>102917
You know except all of the military members who lost their orders and had to fly back to their base.

>>102917
You uneducated dunce. Lot's of people noticed, myself included.

My wife is a govt contractor and worked in a govt facility at the time, so she couldn't work for a few weeks.

Best part was that while fed employees received back pay, govt contractors didn't. Shit was rough and took almost a year for us to recover financially.

>Not even states follow federal (his) rules: pot pushers in many states pay federal taxes that come in part from taxing federally illegal drug dealers. "United" sure has a funny meaning in language America.

It's United States, not a single state.

>>102935
Lol. None of that happened.

>>102970
More bullshit

>>102972
Are you serious. I watch the news and never heard anything like this.

>>102998
All of that happened. Stop lying anon.

>>102998
Why the fuck would you learn any of that from tv news?

>>103066
Because the government shutdown was national news. And some national parks shut down, even one by me.

That's it. Even the library was open.

>>102910
>I'm going to help the American working man!
>orders hiring freeze on America's single biggest employer
Where were you when the bad guy from Tommy Boy became president?

>>103078
>>orders hiring freeze on America's single biggest employer
>"Oh noe, what will we do without more paper pushing bureaucrats ?!!?"
I wish I got welfare to watch online porn 6 hours a day while pretending to work too.
Is solitaire still your favorite game to play ?

>>103103
>got welfare to watch online porn
do you think that's really what fed employees do? Sounds more like a NEET wet dream.
>>103069
WHy wouldn't your local library be open during a federal government shutdown?

>>103078
>says he'll get rid of the swamp
>stops the flow of corruption at its source

I don't see the problem

>>103106
>says he's gonna drain the swamp
>picks cotton mouths as his cabinet
Hopefully he's not, but so far my opinion is he's a crock

>>102998
You uneducated mongoloid

>>103135
Why did he think I'm Asian?

>>103106
>Implying contractors and elected officials isn't where the corruption is

>>102998
>I watch the news and never heard anything like this.
lol

Just going to throw in some stuff.

There are fewer federal employees today than there were under President Johnson in the 1960's (sans Post Office, which is the only growing federal organization by personnel count). However, because of a 50% increase in the population (125 million people), this means the federal government has significantly shrunk compared to the population is serves. This means fewer FBI agents to investigate more crimes (though thankfully the overall drop in crime rate since the 1960's makes this less pronounced) and longer lines at the IRS and Social Security because there's more people per caseworker (again, the post office is the only one growing with the population). Multiple areas of the federal government are already understaffed as it is, notably immigration courts (you know, the guys who have to process illegal immigrants for deportation), thus those agencies will continue to run slowly and will get worse as population increases.

The hiring freeze is also disruptive to the regular operation of some agencies, such as the park service which hires seasonal workers (>>102914), and said disruptions can actually increase operating costs as alternative methods are found to fill the gap (hiring outside contractors who of course cost more money per employee than internal hires). A hiring freeze also prevents new blood from entering the federal workforce, as it stands federal workers over age 60 massively outnumber those under age 30. The hiring freeze is also counter intuitive for the agencies which generate more federal revenue per employee, notably the IRS which is one of a few federal organizations that generates a profit for its budget.

In effect, the Republicans already won their smaller government, and are now complaining that it doesn't function (because there's literally not enough employees) so their solution is to further cut the number of workers. It's a self-serving plan that feeds upon itself while actively harming Americans.

>>103277
Good. A small, inefficient government is a government that cannot oppress.

>>103474
t. edgy ancap

>>103069
You honestly have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

>>102998
You need to be at least 18 to use this site

>>103474
A small inefficient government is impossible to have in a nation as big as the US that's already starting to undergo the very beginnings of balkanization.

>>103474
This not going to apply to the intelligence agencies, or military.

>>103474
The parts of government that ancaps like crying about will be fine. It's all the parts we actually interact with regularly that will become slow and inefficient.

>>103069
Libraries, unless you live in D.C. are locally ran by city, town, or county governments not the Feds.

>>102972
It took you almost a year to recover from 2 weeks off? What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you living day by day with your wife being the soul bread earner.?

>>103506
DC still has a city council for that, Congress can still over rule them if needed.