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EPA 'UnCivil Servants' Upset by Arrival of Trump |
2017-02-12 |
[PJ] The feel-good story of the year so far: 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. At the United States Digital Service -- the youthful cadre of employees who left jobs at Google, Facebook or Microsoft to join the Obama administration -- workers are debating how to stop Mr. Trump should he want to use the databases they made more efficient to target specific immigrant groups. "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?" |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#7 As Trump's to Jerusalem slumping To empty your swamp, you'll be jumping And lie, snapping, flapping, While all of us, clapping, Will pump out that stuff you've been dumping. |
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-02-12 22:47 |
#6 Thirty years on the public teat and this lame Jaws analogy is the best she can do? There's a reason these bozos don't make it in the private sector. |
Posted by: Regular joe 2017-02-12 21:47 |
#5 "It’s like the movie music when the shark is coming," I guess they're gonna try jumping it. |
Posted by: charger 2017-02-12 13:58 |
#4 Sooooooo... By publicizing that these creatures are planning to be obstructionists, the media is greasing the skids for their removal. Brilliant! |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-02-12 11:49 |
#3 It is all about helping. Our civil servants have been helping us, and now Trump is going to help them. |
Posted by: Matt 2017-02-12 11:45 |
#2 ...fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president Hahahahahaha And to repeat - they work for the public We're from the government, we're here to help you (cause you are a bunch deplorables incapable of taking care of yourselves) |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-02-12 09:20 |
#1 That Shark is actually reality. It represents the lesser need of Government workers of the likes of you. You can find real work if you put your heart into it. |
Posted by: newc 2017-02-12 01:24 |