Good day all. One of the things President Trump has been doing is cutting back the number of bureaucrats screwing up the lives of people and businesses in America. One way he has done this is by not filling job openings.
Another way he’s been doing it is looking to move agencies, or parts of agencies closer to where the people they’re allegedly meant to aid actually live. Recently, it came to the attention of a number of bureaucrats that they might have to move from the Beltway to West Middle of Nowhereville. What did they do? They quit. Here are the details from Fox News:
Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway.
Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but important agencies within the USDA – are unhappy with Perdue’s plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the country’s agricultural centers.
“This move does not serve a public purpose,” Peter Winch, a representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents ERS workers, told Fox News. “Employees don’t want to move, and it doesn’t make sense for them to move.”
Actually, it does. Of course, it doesn’t serve the purposes of the Union.
Winch added that since ERS employees joined AFGE earlier this month, six employees have already quit their jobs with the government agency in response to the planned move. He said overall staffing is down to 209 from 300 during the Obama administration.
And the problem with this is what exactly? Oh, right! It means fewer dues paying CommuNazi voters.
Perdue said in a statement to Fox News that the move was meant “to improve performance and the services these agencies provide.” The secretary of agriculture added that the planned move would bring the department’s scientists closer to “stakeholders” and “customers” such as Midwest farmers. “It’s been our goal to make USDA the most effective, efficient, and customer-focused department in the entire federal government,” Perdue said. “We don’t undertake these relocations lightly, and we are doing it to improve performance and the services these agencies provide.”
Now why would any true “I want to serve the people” bureaucrat not want to move closer to the people he or she is meant to be working for? Could it be that they don’t care about the farmers and others who could use some advice? Naah, It can’t be that!
Congressional Democrats are scrambling to try and block the move.
“This parochial idea of, like, ‘Washington messes everything up. Let’s move it out of town’ overlooks the important role that this agency plays,” Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, told The Washington Post. “There’s just a heightened level of concern about this administration, generally, about data collection and science.”
What I see here is a weakening of some entrenched power structures, and since the Democrats are big on bureaucracy and big government, anything that reduces either must be bad and must be stopped!
Winch argued that weakening the agencies’ influence in Washington is at least part of the point. The NIFA funds grants that go into researching the effects the agriculture sector has on climate change – which the Trump administration has tried to downplay – and Perdue was allegedly upset by NIFA’s policy to support LGBT members of the 4-H youth farming organization.
Global Warming and man caused climate change are a load of manure. The sole purpose of the “Research” is money. Flaming dump truck loads of grant money. For the Democrats, it’s power and the ability to reduce Americans to chattel. As for the LGBT nonsense, WTF, Over? What does that have to do with agriculture? Scrap it.
Perdue and his staff have narrowed the list of places where the two agencies could go down to three from an original 130 — with Kansas City, the state of Indiana and North Carolina’s research triangle in the Raleigh-Durham area on the shortlist. St. Louis, Mo., and Madison, Wis., are two alternate locations.
Well, it’s a shame that the Grand Dragon of the KKK Democrat party, Robert Byrd, is dead, otherwise it would all be shipped West Virginia. Still to close to the beltway swamplands for my tastes. Kansas now, that is a great place to drop hundreds of Washington Bureaucrats.
The USDA’s own inspector general is currently looking into whether Perdue has the legal authority to move these agencies, while the House Appropriations Committee’s draft bill of agricultural appropriations, which was released earlier this week, prohibits the USDA from using funds to move agencies outside of the Washington area. Trump’s 2020 budget proposal wants $15.5 million to relocate ERS and $9.5 million to relocate NIFA.
I suspect Perdue probably does have the authority. As for the house passing a bill not allowing it? Granted, the CommuNazis control the house and the purse strings, but it still has to go through the senate and be signed by President Trump. Even then, not hiring new people will put a dent in the hopes and dreams of the scum in the house.
“We continue to believe that the USDA lacks the legal authority to carry out this proposal,” Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said in a statement earlier this spring. “However, even if it had such authority, USDA has not done the proper analysis of the cost and benefits, and this proposal will harm agriculture research and our constituents.”
Translation, “We will do all we can to protect our base and screw the rest of the country.” When Hoyer and Holmes talke about this hurting their constituents, they aren’t talking about farmers. They’re talking about the bureaucrats and their union leaders.
I don’t know if Perdue does have the legal right to make this move. As for the cost analysis, well guess what? It’s a hell of a lot cheaper living in Kansas then it is in Washington DC. That means a lower cost of living and housing. In the end, it would save money and forcing these worthless bureaucrats to actually go out into the fields will do them a world of good.
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