The real reason they are going after Civil Servants. The reason they ALWAYS go after Civil Servants [View all]
It's NOT because of cost, or savings, or waste, or fraud. It's NOT to create chaos and uncertainty, that's just a side benefit. It's not even to get rid of oversight and regulations so they can poison, rape and pillage our country's resources and people. Again, that is just a side benefit.
I think the reason they target Civil Servants is much more cynical.
They go after Civil Servants, because Civil Servants are the last significant US labor force that represent how labor was valued before Saint Ronnie Ray-Gun sold America's Middle Class down the river.
The Civil Service is the last significant labor force in America that exists, where you are fairly compensated, enjoy rigorous safety and employment protections and enjoy decent pensions and benefits. They are the last segment of the American labor force that hasn't adopted the billionaire and corporate goal to turn us all into; "you ought to be just fucking thankful you have a job", lemmings.
Civil Servants are somewhat protected from the cruel, greedy whims of tyrants. It's one of the last American labor force, where your boss can't come in one day and fire you because they don't like your hair, skin color, looks, or simply because they had a fight with their spouse over having no half-and-half for their morning coffee.
It's also one of the last places where your boss, whether an SES, or a GS15, doesn't make 300, 400, or 1,000 times what a GS7 makes.
The oligarchs simply can't allow this example of what American labor can be to exist.
Break this workforce and we all become "just be fucking thankful you have a job" quislings.
Finally, civil service is an easy target.
I think it was LBJ who once said; "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best black man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
The Retrumplicans have spent, at least the better part of 40 years applying that to civil servants.
It's possibly the greatest scam in history. They have convinced a large segment of Americans making $50K to $52K a year, with shitty retirement options and benefits, that their true enemy is their fellow Americans making $53K to $55K a year, with decent pensions and benefits.
If the American labor force ever starts asking; "why do my wages, pension and benefits suck so much"?, instead of hating people that enjoy halfway decent wages, pensions and benefits, it's game over for the trickle-down bullshit.
That's why they must destroy the civil service.
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