Trump wants to leave govt positions unfilled, so that government fails

[muriel_volestrangler]

Trump said Tuesday he would start by leaving most of the 600 mid-level vacancies in his government unfilled.

"In many cases, we don’t want to fill those jobs," Trump said on Fox.

He sees leaving those positions open as a way to both cut costs and thin out the bureaucracy.

"There are hundreds and hundreds of jobs that are totally unnecessary jobs," Trump said. "That's not a bad thing. That's a good thing. We're running a very good, efficient government."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-is-betting-the-economy-sails-1488301512-htmlstory.html

This is going to be the pattern for however long Trump lasts: jobs left vacant, regulations rolled back so there's no legal necessity to keep the environment clean, or safe (eg fertiliser explosions, or poisoned water supplies) or honest (goodbye, Dodd-Frank and the Volcker rule), anti-union legislation, and a no-holds-barred dash for profit by unscrupulous companies and individuals. And he'll make sure his cronies get it all tax-free, while the medical cover needed to care for the people they poison is withdrawn.

It's Ayn Rand on steroids.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If only we would cooperate and start dying in the millions.

Bannon and fuckface cant take all our money until some of us die off first.

Or maybe they can.

Sure, the first ones to whine and cry like stuffed little piglets will be cons, the ones who voted for fuckface.

[Tanuki]

2. I wish those simpering Fox interviewers would have followed up by asking specifically

about which has positions he felt were unneeded, and why. He hasn't a clue who these people are, what their jobs entail, and what will be the consquence of leaving the positions unstaffed.