03-20-2018, 11:18 AM
(03-20-2018, 11:10 AM)PhilHos Wrote: I agree with you here. I'm personally of the mind that if you break the law or your break the rules of the job you work for and the consequence is that you are to be terminated from employment, then that's what it should be. And that goes for those before McCabe that were allowed to retire instead of being fired.
Indeed. It should be a policy and those guidelines should be in place. Career staffers are not above reproach, but disciplinary actions towards them need to not be politically based. You will always have political appointees that are going to be the ones handing down the discipline once you get to a certain point, but the rules should not be arbitrary. They should be clear cut and well defined, because if they are not then we are reverting back to a spoils system of governance which is not effective for our current administrative state.
I know that probably went a bit more in depth than you were thinking, or anyone else, but this is my public admin/policy side coming out.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
