Prof. Glenn Reynolds: FEMA’s Outrageous Act Reveals Weaponized Government
Trump can use the event to position reform as the responsible corrective action to take so it won’t happen again.
President Donald Trump has an opportunity to use the actions of one federal official to demonstrate how weaponized the government can be against its citizens.
In his recent New York Post column, Professor Glenn Reynolds reviews the case of FEMA workers in Florida who were ordered to skip houses with Trump signs out front after Hurricane Helene. He argues that Trump can use the event to position reform as the responsible corrective action to take so it won’t happen again.
…But a federal workforce that turned over regularly would end up with roughly equal representation for the parties, so shenanigans like hers would be much less likely. Especially if federal employees were easier to fire.
America has a runaway budget deficit and a huge national debt. Our bloated federal government has increasingly been prone to abusing its power in ways large and small. (Forget FEMA – don’t get me started on the Department of Justice, which was treating parents who protested at school board meetings as domestic terrorists.)
In his second term, President Trump should slash the bloat. Some of these bureaucrats shouldn’t have jobs at all, doing work that’s either unnecessary to the constitutional responsibilities of government or that’s outright harmful.
The rest of them should have to worry more about being fired.
Make government responsible. Make government accountable. It’s time and past time.
As always, read the whole thing.
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Lots of management levels of the government can be gotten rid of.
Get rid of groups that are not needed and let the Reduction in Force (“RIF”) rules do their job.
If a federal employee is using “lawfare,” transfer that person to some out-of-the-way post. “Fairbanks, Alaska’s Golden Heart, there is a warm spot there for you.” (Slogan on the side of the open biplane my grandfather’s cousin, Col. Clarence Crumrine, flew to Alaska in 1920.)
I thought we were just conspiracy theorists for pointing out what FEMA was doing in Florida and North Carolina even though it was happening right in front of us. I know I got far too many first hand accounts from people I know to discount it.