87% of Bureau of Land Management
Staffers Quit When Trump Told Them to
Move to Colorado
FrontPageMag,
by
Daniel Greenfield
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
1/30/2021 3:16:11 AM
This is a template for what could have been accomplished. It hopefully will be restarted under the next Republican administration.
The Bureau of Land Management rules the lives of people out west, yet its bureaucrats operate out of D.C. When the Trump administration began relocating BLM offices to Colorado to be close to where the people and land they control actually live, the hacks headed for the exit. Good.
Anyone who wants to run the lives of people in Colorado, but doesn't want to live there should quit.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 1/30/2021 4:58:16 AM (No. 678957)
I guess the hacks who left were more interested in DC cocktail parties and orgies than they were in serving the people...and they aren't the only ones.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 1/30/2021 5:52:07 AM (No. 678971)
Sounds non-essential to me.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/30/2021 6:29:47 AM (No. 678993)
I'll bet that those who chose to move will be able to accomplish their task easier without the dead weight of those who chose to remain. I've learned that 75% of federal employees are extraneous!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mobyclik 1/30/2021 6:59:12 AM (No. 679009)
There's nothing as stupid as having a bunch people that have never been further than 100 miles away from D.C telling people 2000 miles away how to live their lives and treat their own property. Can't have folks thinking for themselves now, can we?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Daisymay 1/30/2021 7:15:54 AM (No. 679011)
I'm betting those folks have never been to Colorado! There is no comparison between D.C and the Beauty of the Colorado mountains! I would never want to raise a family in D.C.! Colorado has so much more to offer! D.C. has, well, Nothing!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GO3 1/30/2021 7:24:50 AM (No. 679016)
Yes, this was the right way to do pare down the bureaucracy of any DC based fed agency. #1 is right. There is this mysterious draw to the swamp (literally and figuratively) on the Potomac. Tell them to move and they will early retire or seek out some other agency or whither on the vine.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TCloud 1/30/2021 7:27:36 AM (No. 679018)
Colorado and all those Pot Holes!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
franq 1/30/2021 7:30:25 AM (No. 679022)
The fact that I never was aware of this is illuminating. Lay off 50% of federal workers, and life will improve.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/30/2021 7:31:10 AM (No. 679025)
Probably AA jobs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
gone2pot 1/30/2021 7:43:24 AM (No. 679031)
Anything done in the last four years that used common sense, followed the Constitution, favored the rights of private citizens, etc will be overturned and made MUCH worse with AOC type geniuses in charge. Land owners in the west have no idea what's about to hit them. Those land owners with little to no debt MIGHT survive. Land and property was seized in the Soviet Union and the owners shot, imprisoned, or enslaved by the central government. Think along those lines and add a climate change-pandemic chaser.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LLAMA 1/30/2021 7:51:27 AM (No. 679036)
Bravo! This has been talked about, but I didn't know that it been acted upon. Another feather in President Trump's cap.
Doubt if China Joe will continue this, but as soon as we get competent people back in the WH, pick up the pace. Begin eliminating entire departments along with their Secretaries - Energy, Commerce, Labor, Education would be a good start, and then set a goal of 50% reduction of personnel in what remains in the federal government. Most of this remaining swamp work that is necessary should be relegated to the states, where it should have been all along in accordance with the 10th amendment.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 1/30/2021 8:07:10 AM (No. 679049)
I am sure they all went to make solar panels or code computers. /sarcoff
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/30/2021 8:10:17 AM (No. 679051)
Great insight, ...how to get rid of useless bureaucrats in one chess move...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rivetjoint 1/30/2021 8:20:18 AM (No. 679061)
Living in NJ I find it not unusual at all to run into people who have never been west of Pennsylvania or much past Connecticut but by golly everyone sure seems to have been to Disney World. I wonder how the folks in the western states feel about the two different "BLM's" in our country.
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87% is a really good start.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
idahoskook 1/30/2021 8:47:33 AM (No. 679091)
Next Republican administration. Lol 😂
Your a funny guy!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/30/2021 9:06:12 AM (No. 679106)
Early on for #45, I read an article about how the FBI was outgrowing its hq in DC. I commented that there was plenty of land and or office space in Detroit. It would cost less. Sure couldn't hurt the neighborhood.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/30/2021 9:06:48 AM (No. 679108)
Here's how the DC swamp operates... the jobs are given to good little socialists who follow the company line... when they are asked to do their jobs... they cut and run... no worries... they will be put back on the payroll in short order now during the obama/biden regime... time for cocktail parties and fawning over queen nancy and chuckie schummer... and let's not forget kamie harris is waiting in the wings... so they have a weekend off as Americans wait for their stimulus checks and vaccines... not very efficient are they?... warp speed is now snail's speed...and... WE the people wait as DC fiddles while the country burns...more proof that President Trump is an effective leader and the DC swamp is not...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
red1066 1/30/2021 9:11:31 AM (No. 679115)
Since the California escapees started moving to Colorado, the price of real estate has gone up, as has the construction of new homes. Still, if pressured by my employer to move there, I'd say ok. I've been to Colorado a number of times over the last ten years, and while the traffic around Denver has gotten worse, I just can't get enough of those mountains.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/30/2021 9:40:48 AM (No. 679151)
By that standard the entire top-scum level of the Biden regime should move to China.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/30/2021 10:18:56 AM (No. 679191)
Goes to show that the DC “Deep State” bureaucrats do not want to be decentralized. As they know that they will retain their power if they stay centralized in DC with direct access to the DC “UniParty” political establishment. As we have seen there is no way that a one man show like Trump, whose support came from the ordinary Americans who make the country outside DC go, and who reside across the country outside DC, who had little or no support from the combined and entrenched DC “UniParty” political establishment and the DC “Deep State” bureaucratic establishment, has as it stands now, has little chance to do anything substantial to reform that DC cabal.
As we have seen those establishments, and their liberal media propaganda arms attacked Trump 24/7 since he announced for President about five years ago as Chuck Schumer said they would do, and are still doing even after Trump is out of office. Clearly the “UniParty” and “Deep State” are scared to death that after the Biden-Harris crew overreach politically as the Democrats have been prone to do in the past, as examples, sabotaging the US economy and jacking up gasoline prices to $5-6.00 a gallon, that a more educated Trump will win the 2024 election and come back to DC with another opportunity to kick their corrupt Apple carts into the gutter.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
wildcat1 1/30/2021 10:22:08 AM (No. 679192)
I think a similar situation happened when President Trump moved several USDA offices to Kansas City. KC is right in the middle of America's farmlands.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/30/2021 10:37:06 AM (No. 679205)
Getting rid of these bureaucrats was great? Wait until you see their replacements! Sure, re-locate the offices to Colorado or elsewhere out West. Those young, blue, eco-warrior Californians need a place to land and good paying jobs in their diaspora.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Oysterhaven 1/30/2021 11:01:38 AM (No. 679235)
Pampered pukes.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LadyHen 1/30/2021 11:08:19 AM (No. 679242)
Maybe this is the key to separating the abundant chaff from the valuable wheat and destroying the elite useless cocktail party class of DC. But then I am sure the Founders could never have envisioned the need for 500 federal agencies regulating every second of ever human life in this country.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/30/2021 11:09:14 AM (No. 679243)
hey, all you pampered federal government bureaucrats, a little advice from someone who is not of your stripe: when someone has a problem and is trying to cry on my shoulder I simply say: you know what they say in the Soviet Union? toughski, s#@%ski. your salaries are bloated, your workload is the envy of civilian workers and yet, you complain because you're being told you have to re-locate to a better place to live. pampered, spoiled rotten, ungrateful and envious are not the kind of human characteristics we should demonstrate to the rest of the people in this country, who, by the way, are looking at unemployment as a future consideration. get off your high horse and eat a little humble pie, it might be the best remedy for an attitude adjustment, which you need, badly!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/30/2021 11:15:42 AM (No. 679254)
We've theorized this for a long time. Not only that but big corporations have discovered this in the last 10 years also as they try to shake older employees off their rolls. Just announce "reconsolidation of locations" or moving to a new one in another State with the kicker, "We'll provide you with a U-Haul, but you buy the gas." Of course the older, better established (and higher paid) employees will likely REFUSE and get laid off in place. It's happening all the time. Only difference being that our Federalistas get lavish moving expenses that we in the private sector NEVER see, and yet they still refused to move.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/30/2021 11:22:28 AM (No. 679267)
Sorry, it's never a good idea to spread cancer cells from the main tumor throughout healthy tissues of the body. Taking on California's shed cells is how Colorado turned reliably blue.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/30/2021 11:40:23 AM (No. 679298)
I live in Grand Junction, and the BLM has hired qualified locals here who are quite happy to take these jobs away from the beltway crowd. There is no love lost between the farmers, ranchers, and oil & gas people here, and these snotty DC BLM bureaucrats who have held their dim noses up in the air much too long. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Now back to my vacation on the Big Island.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 1/30/2021 11:46:47 AM (No. 679306)
Here’s the thing that hasn’t been mentioned by any previous poster: almost 9 of every 10 employees quit - and NOBODY NOTICED. The BLM just kept chugging along with 13% of its previous workforce, and things ran just fine.
Grand Junction, CO is not a place that many D.C. denizens would like. Not too many Starbucks or French restaurants there. On the other hand, housing is affordable, the air is clean, and crime is reeaallly low; if you try to rob someone, you’ll likely be shot.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 1/30/2021 12:14:40 PM (No. 679320)
That's how you drain the swamp. We should break up the DC monopoly. Since 90% of the land is out west, this seemed to be a good idea.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
OK state mom 1/30/2021 12:32:52 PM (No. 679340)
Covid has proven people do not need to meet face to face. Work can be done from anywhere. That said, I'm sure President Biden will be calling the BLM home in the next set of Executive Orders.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/30/2021 12:34:19 PM (No. 679342)
What do you want to bet that none of those "staffers" have hunted, fished, camped or slept outdoors in their lives.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 1/30/2021 12:55:41 PM (No. 679358)
This just shows the country how little work is done by DC bureaucrats. I bet we could lose 87% of the federal bureaucracy and never become aware of a slowdown. Most of the states have a lot of deadwood also just not the extreme amount of useless drones that have wormed their way into an overpaid position and a Cadillac retirement plan with the feds.
I can remember my state senator from some years back saying that the state could fire 25% of its employees and no one would be able to tell a difference.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/30/2021 12:59:52 PM (No. 679363)
Proof positive that 13% of all employees in any agency do 100% of the work 100% of the time. The rest are just marking time until SSA kicks in, and of course, some sort of federal pension.
Time to burst another bubble: In churches and Synogogues, the same. 13 to 15 percent of the members do all of the giving and all of the work. The others visit on Easter, Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day, High Holy days and Christmas.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
geoguy 1/30/2021 1:03:54 PM (No. 679369)
I’ve worked in Grand Junction in the oil and gas business. Grand Junction is a nice town. I'd move to Grand Junction in a heartbeat. There are a lot of things to do outdoors, beautiful canyon lands, Moab, Utah nearby, snow skiing, Palisades peach festival, Etc.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
starboard 1/30/2021 1:26:08 PM (No. 679389)
Lived in fort Collins for 10 years back in the 80's before the locus from the East and West started to invade. Now living in NM, a couple of years ago I took a road trip back to Colorado, the first time in decades, and must say, was overwhelmed by the beauty and majesty of the state. It was as though I saw it for the first time. We circled the state, went North on I-25 and then West on I-70 and South on US - 550, the million dollar hwy which I don't recommend it for those with heart conditions. Then lastly southeast on hywy 50 to Albuquerque. It was a great trip. I recommend it to everyone. Colorado is a special place especially the western slope and Grand Junction.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 1/30/2021 2:22:04 PM (No. 679415)
Another reason why Trump was the greatest president in our life time. God I miss him so much.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/30/2021 2:35:34 PM (No. 679427)
They just didnt like his hair.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 1/30/2021 4:41:46 PM (No. 679519)
Absolutely spot on! And smart to try it first with one agency, for whom it made perfect sense; thus, they'd been able to identify any drawbacks which could be addressed before moving on to the next agency. Clearly, they just ran out of time.....
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It is a brilliant strategy for reducing government bureaucracy. Let's move the FBI to Carthage, Texas.
Congress should reconvene in middle America in a convention center with their offices at the holiday inn.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/30/2021 6:54:24 PM (No. 679582)
Headline is misleading. The employees have collective bargaining protections, bumping rights, reassignment on a priority basis to other agencies. They also have civil service protections for those things.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 1/30/2021 8:44:07 PM (No. 679628)
Restarted under the next Republican Administration? You’re joking right? There will never be another Republican administration you fool. The Democrats have four years to perfect the art of making elections irrelevant. They already did it this time and Republicans sat on their hands and watched it all happen. And guess what? The loser Republicans who watched it all happen still have their jobs. Therein lies the problem. There’s no price to pay for losing.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 1/30/2021 11:37:41 PM (No. 679730)
We would not miss 87% of all government employees including Congress which is missing 87% of our the time.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
DVC 1/31/2021 1:36:03 AM (No. 679781)
Getting rid of 87% of bureaucrats in any agency is a real Godsend.
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