@Officer Hotpants
That’s Twitter speak. It forces you to talk in short phrases because people can’t pay attention for more than ten seconds. It’s true.
I had a startling revelation reading Jason Chaffetz’ book “The Deep State”. He’s a big time “conservative” (and a former never-Trumper), that means he likes smoking cigars, driving expensive and inefficient cars, and eating animals to extinction. He says that the solution to ending the power of the Deep State is to make the government more like the private sector, where unions don’t exist, everything is at-will, managers have absolute power to fire anyone they want for any reason they want and can run their departments like fiefdoms, get rid of pensions and 401(k), and bonuses. He has multiple orgasms over the way the private sector treats its workers like shit (except with the visas undercutting wages, he does want to get rid of that). He says that it’s a failure of the government that people stay at the same job for 20 years where as the average private sector job lasts 4 years. And he faced tremendous opposition to reforming the system during his time in Congress.
No shit. He spells it out and still can’t see it, but it all of a sudden makes absolute perfect sense to me. Why is the government fighting so hard to avoid all oversight?
Because the private sector is broken!
The private sector is shit. No pensions, no bonuses, no healthcare, no union protection, managers who can act like kings, executives who are making 400 times the wages of regular workers, visa programs that allow companies to fire American workers and contract foreigners at a fraction of legal American wages, 50 years of wage stagnation.
This wasn’t always the case. In the 50s and 60s union wasn’t a dirty word, it was a sign of pride, and pensions and profit sharing were rewards for hard work and company loyalty over a multi-decade long career. And executives only made about 5 times the wage of a regular worker, and those wages kept pace with inflation.
The government is bloated, inefficient, lacks oversight, and resists change precisely because there is nowhere else for those workers to go. Government workers don’t leave after time served and go into the private sector because there are no private sector jobs to go to. Government agencies are doing everything in their power to hold onto the last vestiges of the great post-war workers economy this country used to have.
If you want to eliminate the Deep State the best thing you can do is fix the private sector. Once you fix working conditions for everyday Americans the swamp will drain itself.