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The article below, posted on Daily Signal, refers to a 2016 article from Daily Caller 03/03/16 which demonstrates that federal government employees are almost impossible to terminate. Because of the availability of many agencies (and supporting unions) that hear appeals of termination, the process for employee termination can take years. So, incompetence, insubordination, and non-performance are ignored. An employee can be functionally illiterate (had someone else to complete their application) and be a federal employee. Today, while Socialist factions petition CONgress to pass Bills that guarantee a "living wage" (already passed in Illinois), the Feds already have a guaranteed income since you can't fire a fed.

Recommendations

I recommend two (2) movies for interested viewers. If Democrat voters (or any voter) want to understand what is wrong with their party, I recommend a documentary movie that contains a completely corroborated history of the Democrat Party. The documentary's title is: Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. The documentary was produced by Dinesh D'Souza who was 'railroaded' by the Obama Administration into a kangaroo court controlled by a corrupt judge and sentenced to prison for producing another documentary, 2016: Obama's America. All FACTS presented in these documentaries are the historical evidence of the failure of the Democrat Party although the Democrats have many allies that support these Communist/Socialist attempts to destroy America, and no group of FAKE NEWS companies can deny the FACTS.

While America has a Constitution that guarantees freedom of speech, it doesn't guarantee an everyday political education. If Americans believe in their freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, if Americans believe that Capitalism is the greatest creator of individual wealth the world has ever experienced (historical facts prove this assertion), then Americans should know the people and organizations who want to destroy America from within. Therefore, the best documentary available that exposes and identifies these enemies who have grown much stronger since the Russian Revolution is The Enemies Within.

Also near the end of The Enemies Within documentary, the video requests that citizens call their Senators and Representatives (those NOT affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and other subversive Marxist organizations) to support S. 68: Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017 and H.R. 377: Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017. After watching the video, you will clearly understand why the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to destroy America from within. Many current Representatives and Senators are affiliated with persons and organizations whose precepts, behavior, and speech are as Marxist as Vladimir Lenin without identifying themselves as Marxist. One of these organizations has infiltrated America like a final stage cancer. These un-American organizations must be excised like a massive tumor. This is NOT McCarthyism since you will SEE and UNDERSTAND the evidence presented in the video.

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
—George Orwell

FROM Firing a Bad Federal Employee May Get a Little Easier by John York 7/19/2018 WHICH TYPE IS THE AVERAGE FEDERAL EMPLOYEE? Holding federal employees accountable is essentially impossible. They have the highest job security of any sector of the economy. In fact, out of a federal non-military workforce of 2.1 million, only 11,046 persons�or 0.5 percent�were fired in 2017. One reason for this is the cumbersome process managers must endure to fire a single employee. Multiple appeals involving as many as four separate agencies, as well as union representatives, are not uncommon. This process can last years even in the most cut-and-dry cases. Faced with such obstacles, federal managers often let misconduct go unaddressed. But two bills moving through Congress now would make it much easier for federal managers to take action when an employee is simply not getting the job done. The Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation (MERIT) Act and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Reauthorization Act would strip away several layers of red tape that insulate federal employees from accountability. How 2 Bills Would Fix the Problem The process for firing a federal employee is laden with speed bumps and roadblocks. One of the most time-consuming requirements a federal manager with a problem employee faces is developing a performance improvement plan, which is meant give the employee one last chance to correct his or her behavior. It rarely has the desired effect. Only 35 percent of federal managers believe �poor performers make a serious effort to use the performance improvement period to improve their performance.� The MERIT Act cuts this requirement. The performance improvement plan requirement is just one of many built-in delays that slow down any disciplinary actions to a crawl. Today, employees must be notified 30 days in advance of a suspension, demotion, or termination. The MERIT Act would cut that time in half. Currently, employees have 30 days to appeal an adverse action to the Merit Systems Protection Board. The new deadline would be 10 days. In the federal government, firing an employee is the easy part. Keeping them fired is where things get difficult. Federal employees can appeal any serious disciplinary action to two different agencies (the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), enlist the legal expertise of a third agency (the Office of Special Counsel), and, of course, involve their union representative. The MSPB Reauthorization Act would clear some of the land mines from this procedural battlefield. Surely, anyone who observes and understands current events with a background knowledge of Progressivism, Socialism, Communism, and our own failed governmental system of Federalism can see with clarity that our current federal government since 1933 is progressing toward Socialism. Our country is a Warfare/Welfare State that is financed and heavily regulated on the backs of companies and citizen taxpayers. The Democrats (Socialists) import illegal prospective voters from south of the border who vote illegally and get paid by citizen taxpayers. While the U.S. fights the enemies of allies ostensibly to keep enemies from our shores, the U.S. should demand that allies defend themselves more—WWII is over. Sell U.S. weaponry to allies that is appropriate for their current disputes or skirmishes with enemies and provide training if necessary. See How to Make America Great Again. Obviously, something must be done about: after firing 50% of federal employees (without replacing) based on past performance and skill levels, future bi-annual performance appraisals determine who is promoted/terminated, limit employment to 20yrs, and require federal employees to contribute 65% with government 35% for retirement pension savings, 50%/50% for health insurance, and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 didn't REFORM anything. It created the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), and all of these bureaucracies are corrupted by unions since most employees of bureaucracies are union members, and therefore, all venues for appeal of termination should be condensed into one, independent, non-government, private, non-profit organization that uses the very latest technology to evaluate all appeals of termination and renders a FINAL opinion. Politics, sexual or any other harassment, skills deficit, abrasive personality are all reasons for termination or not and would be considered in deliberations. Government CANNOT investigate itself objectively, and prohibit all government employee union activities on the job, i.e., if union activity, then must occur in union meetings off-site in union buildings only, and our INDEPENDENT agencies that generate freedom-restricting regulations, and our obsolete agencies that merely provide make-work employment, and our CONgress that created independent agencies but doesn't have enough power to oversee or change them, and For starters, the MERIT Act would sideline federal employees� unions. The bill would prohibit employees fired for misconduct, or let go due to downsizing (referred to as a �reduction in force� in the federal government), from making a union grievance. Employees would still be able to appeal adverse actions to the Merit Systems Protection Board, but if the MSPB Reauthorization Act passes, they would need to meet a higher evidentiary standard to win. Today, an agency must justify an adverse action by a preponderance of the evidence, meaning the balance of the evidence favors their position. If the MSPB Reauthorization Act passes, an agency must only support its decision with substantial evidence�the lowest evidentiary burden in civil cases. Under the terms of the MSPB Reauthorization Act, the Merit Systems Protection Board would not be able to second-guess the severity of the punishment an agency takes against an employee. Today, even if an employee is clearly guilty of misconduct or chronic poor performance, the Merit Systems Protection Board can overturn a punishment it finds to be too harsh given an employee�s past performance, punishments doled out for similar offenses, or extenuating circumstances that help explain an employee�s behavior. Under the new law, the Merit Systems Protection Board would no longer have this discretion. The MERIT Act would also make it much easier to get rid of new employees when agencies make a bad hire. The bill would lengthen the probationary period for new hires from one year to two for most federal employees. During this period, an employee can essentially be fired at will and cannot appeal a demotion, suspension, or firing. The Hidden Cost of the Status Quo The cost of unaddressed misconduct and poor performance is hard to calculate. Not only do bad employees draw a paycheck, but permit applications fall through the cracks, welfare fraud goes undetected, and government projects run over budget because of employee negligence. All of that creates a drag on the economy. Not only do American people deserve better, but so do diligent and competent public servants. Good workers do not want to be dragged down or asked to pick up the slack for bad employees. In fact, when President Donald Trump recently issued three executive orders that made it easier to fire poorly performing government employees, a majority of public-sector workers were on board. Don�t be surprised if good public-sector employees are the catalysts for the sort of reforms members of Congress are attempting to implement. [Editor's Note: "Practically unlimited discretionary power is vested in government agencies the decisions of which are expempt from judicial review." - Ludwig von Mises There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--this is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives. - Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism, p.67 ] [Editor's Note: When has a minor fix to a law ever resulted in a major change? WE all would like exceptionally performing fed employees to set the example for failing employees, but that doesn't work. Motivation and the desire to do a good job comes from within a person. If a person was never taught to internalize responsible behavior as a child, then you can't instill such behavior as an adult. We learn through the mistakes we make—or NOT. If an employee doesn't have the skills and internalized "right from wrong", then the employee should be fired immediately. While government doesn't worry about making a profit, it should worry about getting a full paycheck's work out of hires. The fact is that no government manager or official cares about any of this because they don't have to. So, I will be pleasantly surprised if anything short of firing every bad employee immediately based on performance will solve the problem of clowns working for government. ]

FROM The Crux A new Congress has been seated, and it brings the prospect of perhaps, maybe, potentially, in a possible way doing something about the runaway federal deficits. And in other news, several New York area bridges are for sale, which you can acquire at a bargain price. Excessive Spending Destroys! Feds Have a Spending Problem — DO NOT RAISE THE CEILING! Feds Have a Sewage Problem! DEBT PERSPECTIVE! Social Security (SS) monies flow into the Feds via paycheck withholding. The Feds buy US Treasuries and the Bond purchase money is deposited into the treasury. Benefit money must therefore be paid out of the Treasury. If there had been a SS brokerage account (instead of the Feds spending it), the monies could have been invested very conservatively to receive a modest 5-8% annual return on investment and the SS "Trust" Fund would be solvent even with retiring baby-boomers. Another mismanagement failure is SS Disability which has been defrauded by mendacious citizen malingerers especially from 2000 to 2016.

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Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice
... when the court wasn't part of the L-E-J Cabal

Joseph Story (1779�1845) was born during the American Revolution, and came of age in the early years of the new United States of America. He was a scholar of the U.S. Constitution, and, eventually helped found the Harvard Law School.

In 1811, Story was appointed to the Supreme Court by President James Madison � who knew a few things about the U.S. Constitution, in that he helped write it. Story was a contemporary of another famous member of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall (1755�1835).

In 1833, Justice Story published a study titled, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. In a discussion of the Second Amendment, Story stated:

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."

See the following links for more related articles:

• The Tyranny of Economically Stifling Government Agencies which I call "Creeping Socio-Fascism" or Bob Livingston's Benevolent Totalitarianism
• Fourier Socialism
• Unions Control Governments at All Levels
• Senate Bill 391 & H.R. 612: National Right to Work Act
• Unaccountable Union Make-work Job Failure
• Rand Paul's National Right to Work Petition
• STOP Obama's out-of-control NLRB
• The Perpetrators of Failure
• The Failure of Central Banking
• Free Market Destruction
• Karl Marx Has Achieved His Goal
• Ron Paul: Blame the FED
• Central Bank Failure
• Return the World to Stability
• Gold Standard Now!
• Strongest Banks Are NOT in the U.S.
• Singapore Bank told Uncle Sam (the thief) to 'Stick It!'

[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.

FROM Project to RESTORE AMERICA

The FairTax is a consumption tax unilaterally applied to all Americans at the same rate. For businesses, payroll taxes would no longer exist. Our exports would include a heavy tax for overseas buyers purchasing our products, while our imports would be cheaper for us to purchase. I'm not sure how this would affect GDP, as more information is necessary.

According to the FairTax website, "Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate." The prebate gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free.

So a family of four making something like $50,000/year should not have to pay taxes, thus preventing an unfair burden on low-income families. Since the FairTax eliminates both federal and payroll taxes, you get to keep your gross pay amount of each paycheck earned.

Why Do We Need Term Limits?

John Adams said, �Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey�. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.

1. Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
2. Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
3. Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
4. Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
5. Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.

Term limits for lawmakers: when is enough, enough?

[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]