If you like your cushy government job, guaranteed raises, and great perks, you can keep them.

Oh wait, not so fast. Trump has other ideas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...ob-security/?ref=yfp

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Hiring freezes, an end to automatic raises, a green light to fire poor performers, a ban on union business on the government’s dime and less generous pensions — these are the contours of the blueprint emerging under Republican control of Washington in January.

Trump says get to work or......

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Originally posted by EZ_B:
Donald Trump’s media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’

President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post.

“It was like a f—ing firing squad,” said one source.


LINK

I am LOVING that Trump is gathering all these shocked MSM types and telling them that there's a new sheriff in town and that he's simply NOT going to play their game!

I would imagine it went a little like the "Batter Up!" scene from this movie:

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Originally posted by Jimineer:
If you like your cushy government job, guaranteed raises, and great perks, you can keep them.

Oh wait, not so fast. Trump has other ideas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...ob-security/?ref=yfp

Government employees and unions going 95% in for the Democrats are the reason the Republicans can now do this. The GOP has no support to lose, so full speed ahead. The single-block voting govt employees can thank themselves. About time.

In the '80s, I was fascinated how Ronald Reagan was able to outmaneuver the media time after time and find ways to get his message across directly to the people, even when the elites stonewalled his requests for TV time. He flat-out beat them at their own game.

Today's media banked on their ability to control all of the latest social media platforms to hammer Trump no matter how fast he could Tweet. Instead, he beat them at their own game.

I guess the media isn't as smart as they keep telling us they are.

I really like Judge Jeanine: She has outdone herself this time. I was sleepy and getting ready to go to bed, but not so much so now.



Link to original video: https://youtu.be/6yrpmzM5NLI

Judge Jeanine rollin' in hot with the safety off.

between the trump vid and the judge, Imma gonna need a metric ton of popcorn to sit back and watch all of these liberal heads explode for the next 8 years. gotta love it.

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Originally posted by Jimineer:
If you like your cushy government job, guaranteed raises, and great perks, you can keep them.

Oh wait, not so fast. Trump has other ideas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...ob-security/?ref=yfp

That is a good read,I get all gigley just reading it ,the firing the incompetent would be fantastic.

The Donald should refuse to have anything to do with the MSM, fuck 'em, deal with the local papers instead, or the online media that supported him or at least gave him a fair hearing.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
From the great video: "I will provide more updates in the coming days...."

Fuck the "media." He can talk directly to us. Let them lie and deceive as they always do. They have been exposed. As POTUS, he can make them as irrelevant as they deserve to be.

That's one of the things Reagan was noted for. He knew the media hated him with a passion. But he never came out and said so or griped about it. But he did talk "over their heads" (a term the media used back then) directly to the people. Once enough of the populace got to see and hear him, they realized the picture the media had painted of him was bogus and his popularity rose. The media tried ginning up some 'scandal'. Reagan gave an address and said "There are all these stories attributed to an in-named White House source. Well, you know my name, so let me give you the facts." He laid out what had happened. That story soon lost traction.

To this day the media still hate Reagan.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by EZ_B:
Donald Trump’s media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’

President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post.

“It was like a f—ing firing squad,” said one source.


LINK

I am LOVING that Trump is gathering all these shocked MSM types and telling them that there's a new sheriff in town and that he's simply NOT going to play their game!

I would imagine it went a little like the "Batter Up!" scene from this movie:

More like the penthouse scene in Godfather III.

Watching the Today show this morning, it's obvious the msm has learned nothing. Their totally unbiased reporting was affected only by their reliance on inaccurate polls. Furthermore, if Trump keeps abusing and ignoring them, he will lose access to millions of Americans.

Maybe he can address that last point in his next video.

Morons all.

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Originally posted by 45 Cal:

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Originally posted by Jimineer:
If you like your cushy government job, guaranteed raises, and great perks, you can keep them.

Oh wait, not so fast. Trump has other ideas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...ob-security/?ref=yfp

That is a good read,I get all gigley just reading it ,the firing the incompetent would be fantastic.

The comments section on that story are full of apologists for the Civil Serpents. There are plenty who are good people. But almost every group has at least one bad apple. Many who show up, walk around for a few minutes, then leave. They come back at 'quitting time' and make a show. They spend their day at home, playing golf, on shopping sprees, etc. Others who keep getting transferred because no one want them. Get rid of some bad apples and things can improve dramatically.

And the pension system, regardless as to whether or not it's overly generous, needs to go away. It's currently driving many cities and counties into bankruptcy. There's a reason most businesses have done away with defined benefit plans.

Hillary Clinton was the ObamaCare of presidential candidates

Regardless of how we may have voted, most of us were shocked by the results of last week’s presidential election. Yet the most astonishing electoral upset in recent history is a lot less astonishing when considered from the perspective of markets. It becomes clear that Donald Trump won because his party embraced free markets. The Democrats lost because, as usual, they rejected them.

We’re not talking here about policy, but the yawning chasm that separates how the two parties see the world. Republicans are commonly ridiculed as the suits, buttoned-up defenders of the status quo. Like most media tropes, this is anything but the truth. However conservative they may appear, under those Brooks Brothers suits and dresses iconoclastic hearts beat. Of the two parties, it is the GOP that understands that real creativity and “change we can believe in” can only come from grassroots forces unleashed by messy, unpredictable markets.

In contrast, the Dems are champions of suffocating rules and bureaucracy that reinforce the power of the establishment. As we’ve learned from the past eight years, from ObamaCare to Dodd Frank to the EPA, they’re the biggest control freaks on the planet. Not only have they sought to control health care and the financial sector, but everything else down to your choice of casual language—and whether your favorite restaurant can have salt on the table. In 2016, this dedication to control and incumbency not only shaped their policies, but also their political strategies—which proved to be their undoing.

In retrospect, the Republicans’ best move was their widely criticized decision to allow their nominee to be selected from a broad field of 17 candidates in a year-long competition that, like most markets, was a messy, brutal free for all. Trump’s victory was typical of the surprises that that can arise from such contests. Free markets frequently confound the “experts,” who initially fail to catch on to shifts in consumer needs and desires—and whose omniscience is generally overrated.

Just the way no one would ever have predicted that we would end up computing on our phones, or that people would spend $5 on branded bottled water—or that a social media website founded by college students would upend the entire world of communication and media—no one ever expected that a political novice, a three-times-married former reality TV star, would ignite GOP excitement not seen in decades.

In contrast, there was nothing surprising about the nomination of Hillary Clinton. The Democrats selected her via a top down process which, like their policies, was predicated on central control by authorities presumed to know best about the needs and desires of their constituents.

Hillary was anointed by the party leadership. With big names like Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden staying out of the race, she faced a far smaller field of lesser-known candidates. Three of her sparring partners dropped out before the first primary. The fourth, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, withdrew shortly thereafter, leaving Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as Clinton’s sole primary opponent. While the populist message of the avowed socialist attracted genuine support from political consumers, the Democrats, as we later learned from WikiLeaks, headed off their party’s emerging disrupter.

So the two parties ended up with very different products in terms of the political marketplace. Whatever his flaws, Republican Donald Trump was a thoroughly market-tested entity who had gotten more votes than any other GOP primary winner.

Democrat Hillary Clinton was imposed on voters despite failing a previous test eight years ago against Barack Obama.

That is not to say that Mr. Trump was the ideal pick for many Republicans. Far from it. However, the GOP accepted his primary victory because they understood that, for better or worse, the market had spoken. They embraced their unconventional candidate, even though many did so with no small degree of reluctance.

Not only Democrats, but many Republicans were surprised by the outcome of the election. But, looking back, it makes perfect sense. Donald Trump’s win is a textbook example of how free markets eventually prevail against bureaucratic hubris and central planning.

This is not to imply that, had the Democrats allowed Bernie Sanders to emerge as the nominee, he would necessarily have won. Sanders would still have been the product of a controlled market offering little choice.

Any Democrat would also have represented a third Obama term that voters were desperately seeking to escape. Still, Democrats seeking to increase their chances might consider encouraging a broader, Republican-style “free market” primary in the next presidential election. But my guess is that they won’t. Liberal politicians never tire of attempting to impose top-down “solutions.”

Yet such solutions, like ObamaCare, are destined to unravel because politically-motivated elites are rarely correct about the real world needs and desires of people in a market. That was the case with Barack Obama’s health care law, which was cobbled together by the Democratic establishment and rammed through Congress. And it is why the president’s chosen successor, Hillary Clinton, was a “sure thing” who turned out to be anything but.

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Originally posted by Jimineer:
If you like your cushy government job, guaranteed raises, and great perks, you can keep them.

Back in the '80s, as I was getting on the Elevated for my morning commute by rail, I heard a fella telling his buddy, "I just hit the lottery". He had secured a government job. I heard the words "$40-something" and "benefits" ...

No doubt some government employees are underpaid. National Park Service comes immediately to mind. The guys on the ground. The ranger picking up trash and answering questions along the rim of the Grand Canyon.

But overall? DJT will hopefully be looking at our bloated government and take a Ron Swanson-type red pencil to agency after agency.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
FBHO!!! DJT said more in that 2 minutes and 37 seconds than Onumb-nutz has said in 8+ years and MORE

And DJT did so without saying "uhhh" fifteen times.

The most recent thing I've been seeing from the snowflakes is saying how the electoral college members should ignore the voters and vote for Clinton anyway. Pretty sure they thought the same thing would happen at the DNC for Bernie Sanders.

Can't wait to get Trump in office.

One more example:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/l...noncitizens-n2249138

President Obama’s Justice Department is penalizing the Denver Sheriff Department for making U.S. citizenship a requirement for applicants.

The sheriff’s department will now have to pay a $10,000 fine for its hiring practices in 2015 and 2016. Additionally, the DOJ is requiring them to comb through old applications for those who were disqualified for being a non-citizen and consider those people for future positions.

“The Justice Department’s investigation found that from approximately Jan. 1, 2015, until approximately March 23, 2016, the Denver Sheriff Department discriminated based on citizenship status by requiring applicants for deputy sheriff positions to be U.S. citizens and publishing job postings with U.S. citizenship requirements, in violation of the INA,” the DOJ wrote in a statement.

“The INA’s anti-discrimination provision prohibits employers from limiting jobs to U.S. citizens except where the employer is required to do so by law, regulation, executive order or government contract. The Denver Sheriff Department was not subject to one of the INA’s exceptions.”

The settlement also requires that the sheriff’s department train its human resources employees on the INA’s anti-discrimination provision and change its policies to comply with those requirements.

Fox is reporting that Trump will not have the Attorney General go after Hillary with any charges. Per Kellyanne Conway on a different network.