OP ED: Labor Day 2018: To drain the swamp, you must be able to fire the swamp

[libertybele]

Labor Day 2018: To drain the swamp, you must be able to fire the swamp

If you want to drain the swamp, you need to be able to fire the swamp.

President Trump, Congress and public employee unions (the defenders of the swamp) all know this. You need to know this because this Labor Day the battle over public funding of public employee union expenses and the ability to fire incompetent federal employees should matter to everyone.

Fortunately, the protection for the swamp is beginning to show cracks. For one, there is reason to believe that Congress will take steps to allow the rest of government to use the same expedited firing process that was overwhelmingly passed in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate in 2017 for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Astonishingly, a 2015 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, estimates that it takes a between 170 and 370 days to fire bad federal employees once the decision has been made to terminate their employment.

The sad fact is that many federal managers would prefer not to spend six months to a year in meetings trying to dislodge an entrenched do-nothing employee, so instead they just manage around unproductive employees. This allows federal employees who should be terminated to effectively shelter in place because it is too much of a pain to dislodge them...........

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/03/labor-day-2018-to-drain-swamp-must-be-able-to-fire-swamp.html

[Bigun]

I have said it here many times previously but once more won't hurt.

The biggest problem we have in this country is the entrenched inside the beltway bureaucracy who's mantra is "I'll still be here when you are long gone Mr. President!"

[Hoodat]

To drain the swamp, you need a President who has been fighting against the Establishment his whole political career - not one who suddenly decides to give lip-service to 'Drain the Swamp' a month before the November election and then right after names the GOP national chairman as his Chief of Staff.