eagleye13 Loc: Fl

I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes out The Resistance

By Senior Trump Official


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.

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.

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.

On an average day, roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don’t feel like doing what they are told, they don’t.

Why would they? We can’t fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position - some do this in the same position for more than a decade.

They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands - administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. “Process is your friend” is what delusional civil servants tell themselves. Even senior officials must gain approval from every rank across their department, other agencies and work units for basic administrative chores.

Process is what we serve, process keeps us safe, process is our core value. It takes a lot of people to maintain the process. Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process. Then there are the 5 percent with moxie (career managers). At any given time they can change, clarify or add to the process - even to distort or block policy counsel for the president.

Saboteurs peddling opinion as research, tasking their staff on pet projects or pitching wasteful grants to their friends. Most of my career colleagues actively work against the president’s agenda. This means I typically spend about 15 percent of my time on the president’s agenda and 85 percent of my time trying to stop sabotage, and we have no power to get rid of them. Until the shutdown.

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. One might think this is how government should function, but bureaucracies operate from the bottom up - a collective of self-generated ideas. Ideas become initiatives, formalize into offices, they seek funds from Congress and become bureaus or sub-agencies, and maybe one day grow to be their own independent agency, like ours. The nature of a big administrative bureaucracy is to grow to serve itself. I watch it and fight it daily.

When the agency is full, employees held liable for poor performance respond with threats, lawsuits, complaints and process in at least a dozen offices, taking years of mounting paperwork with no fear of accountability, extending their careers, while no real work is done. Do we succumb to such extortion? Yes. We pay them settlements, we waive bad reviews and we promote them.

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.

The message to federal supervisors is clear. Maintain the status quo, or face allegations. Many federal employees truly believe that doing tasks more efficiently and cutting out waste, by closing troubled programs instead of expanding them, “is morally wrong”, as one cried to me.

I get it. These are their pets. It is tough to put them down and let go, and many resist. This phenomenon was best summed up by a colleague who said, “The goal in government is to do nothing. If you try to get things done, that’s when you will run into trouble.”

But 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. Sure, we empathize with families making tough financial decisions, like mine, and just like private citizens who have to find other work and bring competitive value every day, while paying more than a third of their salary in federal taxes.

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.

President Trump does not need Congress to address the border emergency, and yes, it is an emergency. Billions upon billions of hard-earned tax dollars are still being dumped into foreign aid programs every year that do nothing for America’s interest or national security. The president does not need congressional funding to deconstruct abusive agencies who work against his agenda. This is a chance to effect real change, and his leverage grows stronger every day the shutdown lasts.

The president should add to his demands, including a v**e on all of his political nominees in the Senate. Send the career appointees back. Many are in the 5 percent of saboteurs and resistance leaders.

A word of caution: To be a victory, this shutdown must be different than those of the past and should achieve lasting disruption with two major changes, or it will hurt the president.

The first thing we need out of this is better security, particularly at the southern border. Our founders envisioned a free market night watchman state, not the bungled bloated bureaucracy our government has become. But we have to keep the uniformed officers paid, which is an emergency. Ideally, continue a resolution to pay the essential employees only, if they are truly working on national security. Furloughed employees should find other work, never return and not be paid.

Secondly, we need savings for taxpayers. If this fight is merely rhetorical bickering with Nancy Pelosi, we all lose, especially the president. But if it proves that government is better when smaller, focusing only on essential functions that serve Americans, then President Trump will achieve something great that Reagan was only bold enough to dream.

The president’s instincts are right. Most Americans will not miss non-essential government functions. A referendum to end government plunder must happen. Wasteful government agencies are fighting for relevance but they will lose. Now is the time to deliver historic change by cutting them down forever.

Mikeyavelli

If you are a government employee, this was good for me to read.
I don't trust anyone in government other than Jim Jordan. Everyone else is a paid off Obama Clinton cabal member.
Trump stands alone.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Its a process!
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cbpat1

I’m probably wrong as usual, but, I thought when Nancy was leader during Bush’s term, didn’t she demand, and get, her own private jet, so she could commute back and forth from D.C. to San Francisco?

Officer Jim Loc: Florida

I think you are exactly right Proud. That was my thought as well. I have actually worked the Border in San Diego, "San Ysidro", and it was bad back then and that was when San Diego Police picked up i******s all the time and turned them over to the BP. My partner and I once caught around 50 i******s coming across the fields when the fog was very thick. I called to them to come to us thinking that there were only a couple making the noise! We called the BP to bring a bus as we could not fit that many into our patrol vehicle. LOL True story but that was back in the early 70's when the i******s were more cooperative and just wanting to make a better life. Now we are seeing not only the ones simply trying to have a better life, but those that are looking for a quick buck by bringing narcotics, MS13 gang members, Cartel members, and men from the Middle East who are dev**ed Muslims. Build the wall and then place razor wire all around it.

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

Quite the rant there. Just one thing. You seem to conflate “our house “ with your own POV. I know it’s a hard pill to swallow but our house is the American peoples’ house and we just elected a new management team.
If you truly believe what you wrote you would not be so upset and accept the verdict. Instead here you are, raving that only you and your fellow travelers know the t***h and that the v**ers are i***ts.
Good job and keep it up. The American people will let you know their verdict in 2020.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

"The American people will let you know their verdict in 2020." - working class stiff

Yes they will. Lets hope America gets the t***h from the MSM.

For those that haven't checked out this conservative/t***h telling network;
Amazing; the news not covered on all the other networks, and many conservatives have not discovered OAN yet.
As long as we have a liberal/Left Wing controlled media there will be people who never hear the conservative perspective or the blacked out news.
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F*****m&C*******m- both Totalitarian
Keep Our Constitution! Keep Our Liberties!
Understand the International Banker’s NWO Bilderberg Agenda
Google: “CFR,Trilat,Bilderberg”
To preserve our liberties and our Constitution; the enemies within our republic must be exposed. If you do not know your enemy - How can you effectively fight the enemy?
The International Banker’s G*******t/NWO agenda is the greatest threat to our future liberty and prosperity. Only the Republican Party (Non-NeoCONS)
Are fighting the International Banker’s NWO agenda

Our Republic and our Constitution must be fought for.
The attackers tell us what they are up to;

“An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal attack" –
Richard Gardner ,Ambassador to Italy - quoted in CFR Foreign Affairs, April, 1974

"Actions at the multinational level will be required; if the process of international relocation of industries is to be achieved in an organized fashion." - TC Report #23, 1982

Trump reversed that!


Zbigniew Brzezinski formed Trilateral Commission for David Rockefeller in 1970’s, and Jimmy Carter was made a founding member. Jimmy Carter later became President, & ZB was made Carter's National Security Adviser. ZB took off where CFR/Trilat/Bilderberger/ Republican Kissinger left off.

Zbigniew Brzezinski – Following are quotes from his book 'Between Two Ages' (1970)
“Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner passive man and a victory of reason over belief… and has served to stir the mind and to mobilize human energies purposefully ” (p.72)
Referring to the rivalry between the USSR and the United States – “The eventual outcome of the competition is however, foreordained, given the inherent superiority of the c*******t system.” (pp.146,147)
“This system to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.” - Insider, Professor Carroll Quigley – (Tragedy and Hope, p. 324)

A great book on CFR/NWO agenda – ‘Descent into S***ery’ by Des Griffin at Amazon

For those that haven't checked out this conservative/t***h telling network;
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As long as we have a liberal/Left Wing controlled media there will be people who never hear the conservative perspective, or the blacked out news.
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OAN - One America Network.
Also a Web site;
https://www.oann.com/
Check them out.

cbpat1

The people, your people, only added to one third of the new management team. The republicans added to the senate, and of course, still hold the White House. The way Nancy Pelosi, and her followers act, one would think she was elected President. After the democrats show what juvenile delinquents they are, 2020 should return the house back to the republicans again, as well.

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

Yeah. That’s the revised edition of the e******n results. Before the e******n the president said it was a referendum on him.

And btw my people are Americans also and I like the odds next time around. Let Trump be Trump. He motivated the base. Ours.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

He also motivated Hispanic base because his approval among Hispanics jumped up 19 points!!!!

Mikeyavelli

I've been watching OAN for years.
Fox is a lefty owned network.

Carol Kelly

I humbly and wholeheartedly agree with you on that.

Carol Kelly

She thinks she’s going in the back door of the White House to become the first female
President. That’s what they’ve been planning all along. Impeach Trump by hook or by crook. They’ll try to make the grab. May God be with s on this.

Mikeyavelli

Yep, Mueller succeeds in removing Trump from office.
The kommiecrats succeed in bullying the oh so typical Republican Pence to resign.
Pelosi then becomes President and appoints Hillary as vice president, and then Pelosi resigns. VOILA.

1ProudAmerican