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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 08:55 AM Sep 2016

Dick Head Gingrich Advising Trump To Go After Federal Employee Unions If Elected.

Gingrich based on a Huff Post article is advising Trump to go after federal employee unions. The idea is to actually go back to the "patronage" system where government employees must follow party lines when doing their jobs. That would mean massive privatization, end of civil service, end of pensions and "work at will" employment.

No longer would federal employees be able to do their jobs unless it reflected corporate or party bias. So if there is a party change during the election process workers not loyal to party in power would ALL be replaced with each election cycle depending on who won the last election.

The usual attacks will be that federal workers are overpaid and over protected and do not deserve "jobs for life" like politicians seem to have with gerrymandering. So we would go back to the day so Lincoln and Grant where massive government corruption and influence peddling was the rule. Even with the present system we see a lot of evidence of how institutions are compromised.

And such attack falls right into the Trump mantra about abolishing government regulation. Poison food, poison water and poison air is the official GOP plan.

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Dick Head Gingrich Advising Trump To Go After Federal Employee Unions If Elected. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Sep 2016 OP
If you're in a union and you vote Republican, you're a moron Johonny Sep 2016 #1
Sadly Many Union Members Vote GOP Because Of Religion & Guns. TheMastersNemesis Sep 2016 #2

Johonny

(20,907 posts)
1. If you're in a union and you vote Republican, you're a moron
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 10:49 AM
Sep 2016

because they hate you, everything about you and have for 50 years.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
2. Sadly Many Union Members Vote GOP Because Of Religion & Guns.
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 06:46 PM
Sep 2016

I have talked to union stewards who have told me that more union members vote GOP than you would think. Many federal employees are GOP and when I was a state employee there were a lot of GOPPERS in the ranks. Some even criticized pensions they would be eligible for. Go figure.

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