was published in December 2016 and it listed around 4,000 positions appointed by the president. Some of the jobs it lists everyone has heard of: like White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense, and Chair of the Federal Reserve. For those interested in someday becoming Fed Chair, the book says it's Level I on the federal executive pay scale.
Fewer appointed positions would probably be better for governing. The main problem with so many political appointees, Lewis points out, is the exodus of professionals after each president leaves office is followed by a prolonged period of vacancies. A full year into the Trump Administration, Lewis says, about two-thirds of all political positions that required Senate approval remained vacant. Two years into the Trump Administration, over a third remained vacant.
Don't have a problem with the number, have a problem with the appointees being the ones who donated lots of money to campaign and/or being totally unqualified as has been evident in the past 4 years.
Yes. The swamp is real
Yes.
Yes. There are too many of everything. There are too many leeches sucking the blood of the taxpayers....
Yes.
That is why people are willing to Cheat to get ahead in government
Yes!
How else can bureaucracies function without bureaucrats? Political appointments just get in the way.
I’d start by firing at least half of federal workers on day one.
Sad that so many agencies could be politically motivated.
Yeah, too much government and too many people getting paid for what? We need to push for reform people. We need less government and more results!!
Because we are so politically divided. That surely will not be changing any time soon. Thanks to tRump.
Imagine Trumps holdovers still being around after he leaves, this is why the SCOTUS nominations were so horrible. We need to redo a lot of things, but there’s no trust left that those in charge will do “the right thing” and not just be victors
Cronyism, nepotism, and skulduggery. It sounds about right. Our tax dollars at work.
How many people live in Denmark? Perhaps some can be eliminated, yet how do we choose?
GSA should never have been an appointed position
Yes. Also, why the fuck do electors need to exist still? Originally they were the officials who would communicate the votes from various states. Makes complete sense before, email, phones, internet. But now, with modern secure comms, it’s just dumb. AbolishTheElectoralCollege
U conveniently forget Denmark has a population of 5.8 million. The U.S. 328 million. Ur comparing Amazon to 7-11.
Short answer - yes
There are too many Presidents in the US government. It's a worthless position that adds no value.
Amen...
Only if you think about it. If there’s something rotten in Denmark 🇩🇰 USA 🇺🇸 is totally fucked.
“Government is not the solution to the problem....government is the problem”.....
We're a much bigger country in terms of population and land but we do also have too many positions of power.
YES!!!!!!!!
Yes it’s nuts, how does your government function at all? Oh .... wait ....
We are going to be fumigating for years to get rid of all of the crap that has burrowed into the Civil Service as a result of trump. So no, it is just fine that so many of them are political. Those we can just toss out on their asses.
LolaSweet Imagine comparing a country of 5M with a country of 325M. We have stand alone cities larger than the entire country and a land mass 228x bigger.
There were too many trumps.
Probably too many appointees.
Absolutely disturbing - America's democracy has way to many holes. Worse than Swiss cheese.
The population of Denmark is 5.8 million people which is less than NYC.
100000000%
What’s the point. United States is about 228 times bigger than Denmark.
Denmark is the size of Iowa
Yes! We need to have the most talented & competent in our governmental administration... not cronies, family, and political donors
Yes
Yes, but with the current political climate you're either this 50% or that 50%. Denmark isn't that politically divided I guess...
I must have read this same story every change of administration going back to Reagan
sounds like fraud
And History tells us that this started with Nixon's PURGE of Washington after he won Election in 1968!!!
Tldr: Yes
Yes, there are too many political appointees. This is known.
DrainTheSwamp
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