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Why shouldn't they be as fireable as everybody else?
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Because one way you attract higher quality talent for lower wages - and many federal employees could make vastly more money in the private sector, especially lawyers - is to offer them greater job protections. Reducing those protections reduces the attractiveness of federal jobs.
Call me crazy, but I think finding good candidates is a bigger issue than being able to get rid of lower performers, especially in a tight labor market.
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It's $200 bil or so in direct cash, the rest is guarantees.
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Yes, that's what you want. I don't think that's what he said last night, which was an improvement. We should not do what you want.
He said (paraphrase) "In partnership with state and local authorities, and, where appropriate, private financial interests." To me, that sounds like mostly not PPP, but open to it here and there.
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Streamlining the permitting process is also a brilliant idea.
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It's a meaningless talking point. Most of the permitting issues are state and local that he has no power over. And most of the delays aren't the permitting process, but the political haggling over what people actually want and/or will tolerate.
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It's actually focused on speeding up the permitting issues at the local and state levels.
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Yes, that's why what he said is bs.
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The municipalities and states move at the speed of molasses.
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Yes, because that's where the people with conflicting interests are.
For some reason I blanked on including opioid in his list of nonsense. There not only his offered solution - drug warring on dealers, which means doctors and PHARMA, right? - ludicrous but his own policies have already made things worse. Scaling back Medicaid and making it harder for people to get treatment actively undermines our attempts to deal with the epidemic.
