Holy crap! First off, the video starts out with great music, a dancing chimp and a dancing rabbit. Then he goes right in to a Daily Caller opinion article by a “Senior Trump official” and reads the whole thing. To myself, it really strongly pointed out how deep
the entrenched (and most likely, for the most part, unnecessary)
bureaucracy is. And, of course, it may be related to one of the
mechanisms by which the “deep state” controls its narratives, and keeps
constructive change from happening..
https://youtu.be/B3r5oZiF8LI
“Federal employees are starting to feel the strain of the shutdown. I am one of them. But for the sake of our nation, I hope it lasts a very long time, till the government is changed and can never return to its previous form. The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.I’m a Senior Trump Official, and I Hope a Long Shutdown Smokes Out the Resistance
“On an average day, roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country… But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don’t feel like doing what they are told, they don’t… We can’t fire them… some [work] in the same position for more than a decade
“Due to the lack of funding, many federal agencies are now operating more effectively from the top down on a fraction of their workforce, with only select essential personnel serving national security tasks… [In contrast] The nature of a big administrative bureaucracy is to grow to serve itself. I watch it and fight it daily.
“Many government agencies have adopted the position that more complaints are good because it shows inclusion in, you guessed it, the process. When complaints come, it is cheaper to pay them off than to hold public servants accountable. The result: People accused of serious offenses are not charged, and self-proclaimed victims are paid by you, the American taxpayer.
“…President Trump can end this abuse. Senior officials can reprioritize during an extended shutdown, focus on valuable results and weed out the saboteurs. We do not want most employees to return, because we are working better without them.
“President Trump has created more jobs in the private sector than the furloughed federal workforce. Now that we are shut down, not only are we identifying and eliminating much of the sabotage and waste, but we are finally working on the president’s agenda.
“The president’s instincts are right. Most Americans will not miss non-essential government functions. A referendum to end government plunder must happen.”
Senior Trump Official | Contributor… 10:00 AM 01/14/2019 | Opinion
The Daily Caller is taking the rare step of publishing this anonymous op-ed at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose career would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the president’s next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.
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