The career congressmen are just the tip of the surface of the swamp. The real swamp is composed of government employees and contractors that are fairly isolated from the changes in D.C. The alphabet agencies and the Pentagon are the real reasons the swamp exists.
Which is why the feds should be spread around country - if only for continuation of government survivability. One fat dirty bomb and you have govt and intel shutdown for years.
There needs to be a permanent moratorium on anyone representing the people who isn't an elected official or member of the president's cabinet.
Shut down or consolidate the vast majority of alphabet soup agencies and then reduce the remaining ones to congressional committees and make our elected officials handle those matters. Lord knows congress loves their f-king committees anyway.
I think it would have prevented or at least reduced swamp formation if enacted at the beginning
The career congressmen are just the tip of the surface of the swamp. The real swamp is composed of government employees and contractors that are fairly isolated from the changes in D.C. The alphabet agencies and the Pentagon are the real reasons the swamp exists.
Draining the swamp doesn't mean increase the turnover rate of the water. It means take away the power of government so the water never returns.
Then over time the slime accumulates and we're up to our eyeballs in muck again.
Terms limits aren't a pump. They're a dam.
"The chickens come home to roost." These people you refer to actually state that POTUS' efforts interfere with their agenda.
Which is why the feds should be spread around country - if only for continuation of government survivability. One fat dirty bomb and you have govt and intel shutdown for years.
There needs to be a permanent moratorium on anyone representing the people who isn't an elected official or member of the president's cabinet.
Shut down or consolidate the vast majority of alphabet soup agencies and then reduce the remaining ones to congressional committees and make our elected officials handle those matters. Lord knows congress loves their f-king committees anyway.