This is simply a mechanism for political firings.
Need to do the same for police unions⌠Trump Admin DOESNâT DARE!
If you believed this cartoonishly rapacious rich manâs brat kid when he said âthe forgotten people will be forgotten no longer,â if you thought he was on the side of ordinary people, you were a damn fool.
Resolved: Republicans are vile, disgusting human beings.
It seems to me that the reason for due process clauses in contracts is past experiences with violations of due process. This is likely to make it more difficult to recruit and retain professional staff, and will lead to more whistle blowing, although this whistle blowing will be anonymous, and thus harder to remedy.
It makes me think of a suspicion that Iâve been musing since the last school shooting: is this a step toward eliminating a public good? If they canât get the doctors and nurses they need, will this be a bigger argument toward privatization? (And the connection to schools: If they refuse to make schools safe, is it so people will move their children to private schools?)
Jesus watches over children in private schools and protects them from harm. Everyone knows that!!
This is the first step to go back to the âSpoils Systemâ of the 19th Century that allows Republicans to pack federal jobs with party hacks.
There, fixed it for ya!
Let us never forget, Trump and his rethuglican enablers in Congress are the symptom, not the disease. The disease is usâŚ
Your opinion. Mine? Their offspring need strangled in their cribs.
Until the Left takes this seriously and views it as a war for the survival of the nation weâll continue to lose. Extreme circumstances call for extreme measures. The GOP has this approach. Once we match it we might stand a chance.
Of course it is! Republican playbook, scream about how broken something is, then break it beyond repair and scream some more about how broken it is. Then jam through legislation to destroy whatever it was they are breaking and replace with the exact opposite of what they broke was designed to address.
Again, this isnât THEM, itâs the sycophantic, authoritarian followers who support them!
Yesterday I âfiredâ a client who was a right wing deplorable. Told him I would not do his work BECAUSE OF who he supports politically.
After sputtering about his ârightsâ to have me work for him (Iâm fortunate my company has a very good reputation, and a waiting list) I explained what freedom of association means and that I would let him associate âwith his own kindâ (good luck with THAT) and bid him farewell.
I hate that itâs come to this, but if we are truly going to address the CAUSE of this low intelligence, authoritarian and holier than though problem in this country, we need to bring the solution to the problem-authoritarian SUPPORTERS. In other words, Trump voters. These people donât deserve our âunderstandingâ, they deserve our derision and they deserve all that comes with that, economically, socially and professionally.
Anything short of this, and we will ultimately fail and we WILL lose this grand experiment we call the United States in everything but nameâŚ
We are of the same mind. The difference is I may understand the authoritarian mind a little better.
Authoritarian âleadersâ would be the village idiot barking at the moon without supporters. Never forget that, itâs the key to unraveling this hair ball
Someone here posted this a week or two ago. Itâs serious reading and probably the foremost research done on the authoritarian âsystemâ and what makes it go. Check it outâŚ
There is one sure fire method an individual can employ if he/she fears medical treatment at the hands of a hobbled, diminished VA system. Donât volunteer for the military. Do something else with your life. Starve the militaristic murder machine of its manpower. Everyone bellyaches about the lack of money for childcare, infrastructure, the environment, schools, etc. Too few suggest maybe spending $700 billion dollars a year on the goddamn war machine is a tad excessive.
But not all people can afford to send their precious children to private schools. And not all people can afford to live in gated communities. Getting a bad feeling about all of this.
I grew up in Michigan and I learned the history of the fight for unions by my relatives involved in the 1936-37 sit-down strike. Todayâs social and economic conditions are looking more and more like what existed then. A huge difference between then and now was who occupied the White House (Roosevelt). Reagan busted the PATCO union, and it gets worse with each Republican administration.
The teachers strikes this year show the power of solidarity When more people see this power and protection of unions, they can begin to take back some of their economic rights. I want to hold on that hope.
Medical best practice is something called a Just Culture. In a nutshell, it doesnât decrease errors to punish or fire people for simple human errors, it simply encourages people to cover-up and lie. You punish reckless and criminal behavior, while using simple human errors as opportunities to improve the system and the process.
The monkey wrench in all of this, as in so many things, is vindictive, spiteful Republicans, whoâd rather judge than help. But itâs usually possible to help six people for the cost of judging five.
Itâs the same way I look at all these drug-testing, work-requiring waiver applications to Medicaid, to everything to do with reproductive, mental and behavioral health, and to about 7/8 of the criminal justice system. We could help six people cheaper than judging five, and Republicans are all about the judgment.
Turn the fired housekeepers into campaign ads â along with the fired Harley Davidson workers in Kansas. Dems should go all worker, all the time in their campaigning against Drumpf and his kleptocratic mafia regime. Time to wage class warfare with nuclear weapons.
This is the face of authority that this admin wants to bring us: arbitrary and capricious control of the workplace and state, where a lack of protections leave the majority with no option but to defer to the whims of the powerful. Itâs like Trump Org as a model for society.
Not a pretty picture.
To the reporter: donât call these acts âreforms.â That casts them in a light favorable to the VA. They are attacking employees yet again.
The VA hates this president as much as the rest of us. My wonderful nurse practitioner is retiring early because she canât take any more of the nonsense theyâre being put through daily.