They'll eat each other. That is they'll stab each other in their backs to try to save their own useless jobs.Swampman wrote:Hope Trump keeps his promise to freeze federal hiring . . . permanently. Attrition will shrink government all by itself.
The problem is that they control the movement of the paper that needs to be pushed to reduce those forces.
The inertia in the system will slow the process down to a snails pace.
And a blanket freeze on hiring/replacing government personal wont work.
That was tried in Ohio and a certain government paid worker sent a memo up the food chain stating that he was retiring and plans needed to be made to replace him.
Word came down that the new rules stated that all jobs were to be reduced by attrition and he wouldn't be replaced.
He waited until his last day (after arguing with upper management several times that he needed to train a replacement and being told he WOULD NOT be replaced) to call some supervisor and ask if he wanted the bridge up so the boats could get to and from Lake Erie or down so people could cross the river going to and from work and home.