Discussion: Carson's Newest Eyebrow Raising Comment: 'Covert Division' Of Government Employees

Chill. We call it whistleblowing. The Government calls it breach of trust.

What a hole.

Fantastic. Kinda like “Undercover Boss” where the boss is a total prick. Brilliant.

I guess he never heard of E Germany and the Stasi.

I REALLY doubt he has. I you asked him he wouldn’t know what you were talking about.

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Rubio’s continuing to have major financial problems in his personal life but he’s got a billionaire sugar daddy propping him. Hope you’re right about Carson.

I worked in the very conservative USDA Forest Service for 32 years. There were many right wingers working there and some of them were quite lazy. When confronted about this one fellow told me “that is why i got this job, everybody knows government employees are not expected to work.” Needless to say, he had few friends at work and was viewed with open contempt by some. My experience was that most government workers are dedicated people who really serve America.

Obviously Dr Carson is ignorant of a unique institution within the federal workforce. It seems government employees work for this thing called a supervisor, who in turn is held responsible for productivity. Clearly this is something that does not exist elsewhere and is understandably outside of Carson’s experience.

Uncle Ben’s Reich Krispies

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Exactly so. He’s turning out to be the biggest turd in the bowl.

The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (IPA: [ˈʃtaːziː]) (abbreviation German: Staatssicherheit, literally State Security), also State Security Service (German Staatssicherheitsdienst, SSD), was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), colloquially known as East Germany. It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies to have ever existed.[2][3][4][5][6][7] The Stasi was headquartered in East Berlin, with an extensive complex in Berlin-Lichtenberg and several smaller facilities throughout the city. The Stasi motto was “Schild und Schwert der Partei” (Shield and Sword of the Party), referring to the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants

Wow. Secret police. What an absolute nutter.

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“IL DUCE” Carson for President!!

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Sounds like a foolproof plan. I often remark at how efficient the private company I work for is, due to all of the undercover operatives working in the office.

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It’s a good think his former patients’ records are confidential because the first burning question coming to my mind is how may errors were made in his medical practice, where his ridiculous, punitive mentality of spying on people because he can, looking for excuses to fire someone because he has power and considers it his birthright to lord it over somebody, reigns supreme. Volumes of medical literature prove that such a vindictive organizational mindset encourages cover ups while doing nothing to promote safety.

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It’s so sad that Daniel Strauss doesn’t know how to read or write. First sentence of story: “If he’s elected president, Republican 2016 presidential Ben Carson said he might set up a ‘covert division’ of government employees to monitor coworkers in order to make government more efficient.”

Can we get some quality control around here, a.k.a. copy editors or proofreaders?

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Stalin does it = example of the tyranny and failure of “liberalism”

Carson does it = “improving” government

What is the sound of one Ben clapping?

Next thing will be “block watchers” to report on the neighbors. Then the old woman near the elevator in the hotel to survey the “comings and goings” of the guests.
Reminds me of Soviet Russia or Eat Germany back in the good ole days of the Cold War.

Rubio can stay in the game as long as A) he doesn’t talk much, and therefore doesn’t say really stupid stuff and B) other people DO say stupid stuff to draw attention from the fact that there isnt much there.

B will definitely happen at least through SC and NV. A is always a question with any GOPer. Eventually the field will start to narrow and B won’t protect him any longer, but he may have stayed in long enough to look like a viable VP by then.

Oh…and C) Bush has to drop out or Rubio has to best him in FL. If neither happens, Rubio is going nowhere.

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"Employees would work harder if they believed some of their coworkers were secretly spying on them, he added. "

This is right out of Stalin’s playbook of paranoia.

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A cursory search indicates several cases where Carson was close to a suit but things were dealt with …ahem… meaning $$ was exchanged so that he wouldn’t end up in court. Technically he can still say he’s never been sued.

No, he doesn’t think through any of his ideas because he is a political rube, and he is so arrogant he believes that every idea that flashes across his brain is brilliant.