polgara
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Presidential appointees are not hired. The vast bulk of federal people among those elected, appointed, and hired are permanent federal employees protected under laws that makes firing them extremely difficult. So the only logical way to reduce the federal work force is via attrition. People will retire, quit, move on to other jobs, and they won't be replaced unless they are in critical positions. If there is nobody qualified to promote into those positions, THEN the President leaves open an option for a waiver so that those positions can be filled.
Greetings, AlbqOwl. :2wave:
It looks like the government is being forced to act like most businesses have always had to - the difference being that businesses have to be competitive in order to make a profit to have enough money to pay their bills - employee salaries among them - or they go out of business. The government doesn't seem to have that worry - they can always raise our taxes instead of cutting spending, I guess, because who is their competition? Unfortunately that hasn't worked either, or we would not have a $20 trillion...and climbing... debt to pay.
BTW, what is a permanent federal employee? Would our FBI and employees in departments like that be among that group? I have never heard that term before...