USDA Slashes Buyouts For Experts Leaving Agency Over Relocation

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They can use the money saved from salaries to give directly/bribe farmers whom will suffer subsequent to loss of expertise they get from Dept Ag

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And maybe his head.

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Remember, with the Trump Administration, the Cruelty is the Point.

EVERYONE, no matter how minor of a bureaucrat or government employee, is to be PUNISHED for not sufficiently worshiping at the altar of Trumpism.

One of the hallmarks of Malignant Narcissim (which Trump suffers from) is SADISM. Cheatolini ENJOYS seeing people SUFFER because of his actions and decisions. It feeds his every-expanding Ego and makes him feel Powerful. Since he has no ability to feel Empathy for anyone or anything, it costs him nothing emotionally to be cruel to others and reinforces his “Transactional” view of the world.
This then enables his craven minions he has placed in positions of power to emulate him wherever possible to curry favor from Dear Leader.
This also explains his fawning “fan-boyism” for cruel dictators around the world. He desperately wants to be as Feared and Worshiped as they are.

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The Trump Administration

Incredibly, Amazingly, Stunningly …

Full of Shit

Shit for ideas, shit for policies, shit for how they treat people,
Shit for Brains

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But now that a federal job as an expert scientist has been shown to be so volatile—you could be released with any new administration—what kind of experts will you get? Stability and benefits were what these positions offered.

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Reposting:

Barry Ritholtz interviewed Michael Lewis about his new book that looks at the federal government. Was a great interview: Excerpt:

.RITHOLTZ: So some of the — some of the specific factoids you bring up in the book, I just pulled five or six aside because I was just fascinated by these. There are two million federal employees, 70 percent of whom work in national security. That’s a mind blowing stat. I assumed they were all these bureaucrats and pencil pushers. Most of the government spends their time working — and personnel working to keep everybody else safe.

LEWIS: Safe, that’s the basic function of the government. And …

RITHOLTZ: How is that …

(CROSSTALK)

LEWIS: … and it’s also — it’s also — you know, another kind of misunderstanding is that the federal workforce is just out of control. There are fewer federal workers per capita than they were 30 years ago. The thing that’s really alarming about the federal workforce is how it’s aged that young people don’t like to go work there anymore. And you got — so you got, in information technology alone in the federal — in — in the federal government, five times more people over the age of 60 than under the age of 30.

RITHOLTZ: Wow.

LEWIS: So, you know, no tech company could function that way.

RITHOLTZ: Right.

LEWIS: And so this is — when you look at what’s — what’s happening is we’re kind of living on borrowed time with the federal government, running on fumes. And — and it’s all a consequence of this enterprise being basically demonized. And — and a lot of that …

RITHOLTZ: So decades now.

LEWIS: Yeah. And — and allowed partly by Congress to atrophy. I mean, it’s — it’s just too hard to hard hire or fire people. It’s too — who wants to go work for a place where only — the only time you ever recognize is if you do screw up.

RITHOLTZ: Right.

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That’s what happens when they lock you out work for no reason and you stay home and watch TV instead of going out and protest, if you are not prepared to protect your rights they will be taken away from you. The same goes for voting and reproduction rights they are about to be taken away without a peep from the affected people, and no a tweet does not count, needs to be done in the streets where they see and hear you, like in Hong Kong.

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And by those buyout terms they are being actively disincentiveized from working for the federal government again for at least half a decade.

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The economics of hiring experts to move to, or back to, Washington DC are pretty horrific. Housing is insane there.

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Republicons continue to find ways to influence people to vote…for anyone not a republicon.

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Time for a government wide “general strike”?

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I the Agriculture Building is enormous. I wonder what kind of hotel DJT is planning to put in there.

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. . . and screw loyal career federal employees in the process. Next, they’ll screw the rest of us.

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One of the many, many pieces of legislation that Democrats will have to pass after the Trump Crisis is over to reconstruct a functioning Federal government will be bills to rehire exerts at many agencies, with special allocations to make them whole from the punitive treatment they received - restoring their careers, etc.

It won’t actually be a lot of money compared to all the other things that will need fixing.

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The federal employees work for us. DJT is screwing us by screwing them.

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There you go another lawsuit laid at the feet of the big fat mother F her in the White House the traitor the liar the thief. Can’t wait to that big fat butt is out of the People’s house.

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Reposting from this AM.

Incredible article. The whole party should run on this:

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Jobs. Plural. Isn’t he still moonlighting as CFPB head as well as CoS?

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That’s why there needs to be total annihilation of the GOP in this election.

And reforms to governance so that this kind of bullshit can’t be pulled again.

Unfortunately, our opponents cannot behave according to norms, or even laws when they are in charge.

We have to put an end to this, or destruction of a functioning USDA is among the least of our problems.

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Is it even legal that they are doing this?

There are Civil Service protections, to protect the workforce from political abuse like this, why aren’t the Democrats and or Unions making more noise about this? Or are they and the media isn’t reporting on it?

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