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No nothing changes, the idea that anyone thinks they can actually fire career federal employees is a pipe dream. If congress wants to change the civil service system good luck, you cant fire them because you don't like them, it takes an act of god to get rid of any employee.
Yes you can. Happens each administration change and quite often throughout.
Might want to wake up and go outside from time to time and breathe in that fresh breath of reality so as not to have a system shock.
"WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended climate change policy conferences, as well as emails and documents associated with the conferences."
If Trump has NOT been sworn in and his Cabinet has NOT been "confirmed" yet, HOW could Trump's team find out WHO worked there and HOW could he "circulate" the questionnaire within the dept., especially when the Agency is filled with left leaning Obama people?
Being this from the NYT, I have serious reservations about its validity.
After reading the other posts I see where the OP LIED with his title.
Another poster stated that the DOE has REFUSED to circulate the questionnaire, so why did the NYT make such claims?
It has proven itself to be treated the same as the Philadelphia Enquirer
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What we have learned is that the promise of draining the swamp was just bogus. Billionaires and bankers in the cabinet. What do they know with helping the middle class and bringing jobs back. Trump and his daughter sends their job over seas so why would they care about us
"What do they know with helping the middle class and bringing jobs back."
DUH! THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THE JOBS.
How many "middle class" workers have created thousand of jobs?
sure no need to worry about US energy policy, regulate rates, no need to worry about all the nuclear material they handle...we'll just put it in storage lockers....
We DON'T need an entire Agency to accomplish those things.
By the way those things you mention are NOT all of what the EPA does.
Perry can just set his own policy banning attendance at these conferences, I don't know why the transition team is getting involved in wasteful exercises. They need to go forward, not backward.
Well then get rid of it, it's certainly within their power. They wanted to get rid of DOE, EPA, Dept of Ed, so just do it and stop talking about it. This was one of their campaign promises, so let's see if it was just bluster or if they really meant it.
IMO, every single program in the fed gov't should be audited and decide if that program is worth borrowing money to keep it going.
Sorry sir, we aren't (yet) in a fascist country. I hate to break it to you, but you can't fire a federal employee just because they don't have the same political beliefs as you do.
There are knowledgeable scientists who have chosen to devote their professional lives to the public good, not one political party or another. The data they are generating may have nothing to do with the climate change debate and they may not be spouting extreme climate-related nonsense either. Just because a researcher like this happened to attend a conference on climate change topics does not mean they do work that has no merit or use. Good science avoids bias whenever possible. Others usually add the political spin to data. IMHO, there is a lot of atmospheric and climate related research and monitoring that is pretty darn useful to have. Whether you want to believe in climate change or not, much of the work these folks do affect the lives of millions around the globe, even down to your nightly tv weatherman. You want to know when to dive into a tornado shelter or board up your barrier island beach house before the storm hits? Thank a scientist.
We DON'T need an entire Agency to accomplish those things.
What is an "agency"? If there isn't some organization mandated to handle the huge workload assigned to DOE who do you suggest should? Your local city council? Your neighbor Ralph? Come on. If DOE is a problem, dig into it and revise the mandate, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
"The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
Aldo Leopold
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