Trump has civil servants shaking in their boots. Good, it’s about time.

Last updated on: February 20, 2017 at 9:57 am by Mark Meckler

Trump has civil servants shaking in their boots. Good, it’s about time. 2017-02-20T09:57:51-06:00 Mark Meckler

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Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: “civil servant” is a misnomer as a large majority of them leech off the people they’re supposed to serve. That’s what makes their current crisis all the more enjoyable.

Right now, these largely unfireable government employees are shaking in their boots under the new administration and for the first time in a long time are worried about their normally secure jobs. But don’t take my word for it. The New York Times wrote all about it:

Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump’s arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.

At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired. At the Treasury Department, civil servants are quietly gathering information about whistle-blower protections as they polish their résumés.

It’s almost a sense of dread, as in, what will happen to us,” said Gabrielle Martin, a trial lawyer and 30-year veteran at the Denver office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where colleagues now share daily, grim predictions about the fate of their jobs under Mr. Trump’s leadership.

“It’s like the movie music when the shark is coming,” Ms. Martin said, referring to “Jaws,” the 1975 thriller. “People are just wary — is the shark going to come up out of the water?”

Isn’t that fantastic news? This is LONG overdue.

As is noted in the NYT piece, surveys reveal that the majority of federal workers are Democrats even though the civil service was a Republican creation. Michael Walsh adds in his piece for PJ Media that the service was created in “reaction to the Democrats’ plundering patronage system” and that they resisted its formation. So, isn’t it funny, now, that they embrace it and have exploited the system after “realizing that by putting in good, unfireable… men, they could control the Permanent Government forever.”

So, what’s next? Well, according to the NYT, civil servants are planning an uprising of sorts against Trump:

This article is based on interviews around the country with more than three dozen current and recently departed federal employees from the Internal Revenue Service; the Pentagon; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Justice and Treasury Departments; the Departments of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development; and other parts of the government. They reveal a federal work force that is more fundamentally shaken than usual by the uncertainties that follow a presidential transition from one party to the other…

…the concerns of federal employees are being spread across social media, on accounts with names like “@Rogue_DOD,” “@Alt_DeptofEd” and “@AngryWHStaffer.” One anonymous Twitter user created “@WhitehouseLeaks,” with a purported mission to reveal the secret workings of the Trump administration from within the West Wing.

There are also plans for “public displays of protest” by some federal workers and most are taking inspiration from the Justice Department’s former Attorney General Sally Yates who was fired for refusing to comply with President Trump’s executive order on immigration.

I say, go for it. The more federal employees that quit, or are fired, the better. It’s time the government starts shrinking. This is a great start.

Like Walsh ends his piece:

For Trump — or any other future Republican president — to succeed, control of the government must be wrested back from two distinct, left-leaning groups of cultural sappers: the regulatory agencies (which Congress and/or the president could dissolve in an instant) and the civil service, which needs to be terminated. It came from nothing more than Goo-goo (19th-century slang for “good government”) feelings, and to nothing it should return.

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