Who was fired without reason given ? Put up the list to support the claim.
Voluntary severance package offers are compensated resignations if accepted .. just like in corporate world during downsizing or restructurings. There are some involuntary reductions in those cases too .. but again, compensated.
This is life everywhere else .. govt should be different when bloated and spending is out of control and our tax money is being wasted?
@BrandNewMan OK... I accept that you were focused on the E.U. in your comment. However: If the USA has always wanted to be a 'world power' and somewhat 'direct' the world events then there's no reason for it to complain now - Most countries have deferred to that approach BECAUSE the decisions and direction have (mostly) been reasonable and well directed. But: You say the USA is 'due' more respect? I throw it back to you that the governments of other countries are due more respect by the USA! The USA has been directly meddling in the politics of many countries for at least a century (Lets start with the the post WW1 "Tready of Versailles) where it (mostly) dictated the reparations Germany would have to pay - even though the USA was VERY late participating in that war. That dictating in itself gave rise to the German nationalism that Hitler manipulated and which resultingly led to WW2 - which (BTW) the USA declined to put boots on the ground in that conflict until much later than the United Kingdom and Russia who had already engaged Germans. (I"m not denigrating the US contribution - it was welcome and it was worthy), I'm just looking at the politics of it. Then, post-WW2 the OAS mutated to become the CIA and the USA has been a somewhat menacing shadow in every country ever since. (Again, I'm just saying... many countries, Canada included, have felt the presence of the USA at times when it was not needed or warranted). Please take note too that US 'largess' in providing aid has always been accompanied by concessions of natural resources, land access concessions or indirect control of the country's internal policies (propping up dictators). SO the Bottom line is: That where the USA 'thinks' the world should be showing more appreciation for the US aid that has been provided - the USA (read 'tRump' who has NO knowledge or interest in world history) is now seen as 'demanding' respect when that respect has already been returned and the USA might wish to re-gauge what it is demanding in more 'friendly' terms. Again: DIPLOMACY is what is visibly lacking - and NO - if you read the feedback about JD"s trip - he did not build bridges.
Whooo-ee.... I just saw the news where tRump accuses Zelensky of 'starting' the war in Ukraine.??? (and that's just recent history!!)
Then there's the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Trump administration targets CFPB, halting work and funding
https://fox2now.com/news/national/were-about-to-get-annihilated-musk-doge-descend-on-consumer-bureau/amp/ What does the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau do for US citizens? It helps consumers with loan overcharges, interest withheld, and other misdeeds by large financial institutions.
The agency says that, since its inception, it's helped consumers to the tune of $21 billion through monetary compensation, loan principal reductions, canceled debt and more.
And thousands more at Dept of Education are on the chopping block. And we're less than three weeks into this admin!
What is happening is long overdue
On the contrary, what is happening is in violation of the law, in particular spending bills passed by Congress and signed by the President. Remember, the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. Not Tяump, not 卐LON, but Congress.
USAID money, CFPB money, and all other government agencies are funded year by year with budget bills passed by Congress, signed by presidents. These bills have the force of law. When a president swears to faithfully uphold the laws of the land, the laws include budget bills.
@BrandNewMan anyone can say that. Doesn’t mean it’s all accurate. And who’s to determine what’s waste? What’s important to one is not to another. Few would argue efficiency is a good thing. Wiping out entire agencies is not the same. If you’re comparing it to a company, it’s like going out of business. Rarely celebrated!
So opewn the books for scrunity, all debate would stop
Right, sunstroke, reveal EVERYONE's social security info, what could possibly go wrong???
... The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates that in the middle of the last decade, underreporting of income on individual income tax returns accounted for roughly $300 billion in unpaid taxes.
Unpaid taxes – that's FRAUD!! And the tRump admin, by firing auditors, is making it HARDER to detect tax fraud!!!
I.R.S. Fires 6700 Employees Amid Tax Filing Season
The silliest thing is that auditors more than earn their keep!! Firing them REDUCES revenue!!!
... For each audit, they calculate both the upfront revenue associated with the audit and also the deterrence effect that the audit has on future tax revenue paid by the person who is audited. The researchers find that the average upfront revenue per audit was $14,283, compared with an average cost, including exams, appeals, and collections, of $6,418. The average revenue yield was therefore $2.17 per dollar spent on audit resources.
@Pretzel I must agree..... Lots of 'knee-jerking' going on and anything with any 'blue tinge to it is a target. The historical horrors of "Vlad the Impaler" fit quite well here: Paranoia overriding logical thought and due process of truth and law.
@pentagrammom Right! But the situation is (as said above) knee-jerk' - P. tRump has been out of 'the loop' for 4 years and now he's back in with an agenda that 'might' be cleansing, but is most likely destructive. Not everyone in governmental bureaucracy is without a brain and he's decapitating indiscriminately while the people he's inducting have a BIG learning curve ahead of them.
The Red Scare was a garden party compared to this blood letting. This is nothing less than a complete dismantling of the federal government to be replaced with a corporate neofeudal theocracy.
@MasterLee Sorry ? (Not).... So do a short review on the things you have said about Biden and Democrats in general....Not forgetting that these people are your neighbors who you probably even socialize with! It's so easy to denigrate people when we generalize.
Not that I'm trying to raise myself up from having done that here in SW (only in replies, BTW), but I didn't see the previous administration literally slamming people for their personal life choices as what I see P. tRump doing.... He seems to be creating strata of people and to me that's what Hitler did. Therefore, until I see a change in his approach to minorities, I will continue to diminish him...He is not a man worthy of receiving admiration.
@Reason10 Obviously you didn't lose your job! AND: If you're on a pension and the people who are responsible for sending you your checks are fired.... Goodbye check!!
