whitnebrat wrote:
You've destroyed the federal civil service requirements and allow cronyism to sneak back into the government workplace.
Let us look at this one a little more..
https://www.fra.org/fra/Web/Content/Sgt_Shaft/VA_Employees_Not_Fired_for_Felony_Convictions.aspx"As the story goes, a Department of Veterans Affairs employee in Puerto Rico was fired after being arrested for armed robbery, but her union quickly got her reinstated — despite a guilty plea — by pointing out that management’s labor relations negotiator is a registered sex offender, and the hospital’s director was once arrested and found with painkiller drugs.
The woman missed work while sitting in jail but was reinstated in March with back pay."
"The same reasoning was used by the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) to justify reinstating VA executives Diana Rubens and Kim Graves after they swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars by bullying others out of jobs and then cashing in on relocation bonuses to take the jobs themselves."
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/03/heres-why-its-all-but-impossible-to-fire-a-fed/, recently reported Environmental Protection Agency officials let an employee convicted of stealing thousands of dollars worth of equipment from the EPA back to work after a 30-day suspension. Another EPA employee was convicted of sneaking marijuana and marijuana pipes into a federal facility, but went back to work after a 21-day suspension.
Federal law requires agencies, in instances of criminal misconduct, to prove the criminal activity hurts the agency’s mission, Morris said.
“These are all symptoms,” Coburn said. “They are symptoms of a greater and bigger problem. You have an uncontrolled federal government that nobody can manage.”
The first step, he said, is cutting the federal workforce — drastically.
“The first thing you need to do is downsize the government by about two million people,” Coburn said. There are about 2.7 million people working in the executive branch, according to OPM. But Coburn doubts Congress has the willpower to do anything drastic.
“Most of them don’t even know how to run a business, or hold people accountable,” Coburn said.
You seriously don't think changes need to be made??