Newt Gingrich wants to fire federal employees who voted for Clinton

[DonViejo]

"There won’t be any real cooperation until we change federal law so we can fire them”

SOPHIA TESFAYE

President-elect Donald Trump is set to assume control of the White House in a manner of hours, and his longtime adviser Newt Gingrich is giddy about reported plans to cut $10.5 trillion out of the federal government over 10 years by gutting federal agency budgets by as much as 10 percent while slashing 20 percent from the federal workforce.

The Trump transition team has reportedly met for months with career officials in the White House to outline a plan for massive cuts to the federal workforce. The plan, modeled after a budget championed by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, essentially calls for cutting nearly all of the government’s discretionary spending.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is so excited by the prospects that Trump will finally be able to deliver the extremely right-wing restructuring of the federal government he’s championed for decades.

“I would say by one week after the inaugural, it will be very interesting to look at how many things have changed,” Gingrich recently said at a Heritage Foundation event. Gingrich predicted that “Trumpism produces a balanced budget largely as a consequence of its policies rather than by focusing on the balance itself.”

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http://www.salon.com/2017/01/20/newt-gingrich-wants-to-fire-federal-employees-who-voted-for-clinton/

[NewJeffCT]

1. and, when they give out huge tax breaks to corporations

to build infrastructure, tax revenues will collapse and we'll be sent into a Depression.

[shraby]

2. Now we know why newts live in rotten logs in swampy areas. They're lizards.

[dalton99a]

3. Let's have show trials and send them to a gulag.

[liberal N proud]

4. I guess he is full onfascist

For if he was, he would want them jailed.

[KingCharlemagne]

5. You have to fire them first, BEFORE you can put them into concentration

camps. Otherwise, it creates problems with the accounting and payroll.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I'm seeing two friends tomorrow who are federal workers.

One is a VA nurse; the other is an actuary for the Railroad Retirement Board. Both are civil service.

Doesn't this violate some law?

[KingCharlemagne]

7. The Civil Service is so 20th Century. - nt

[Initech]

12. Laws don't matter to them anymore.

[Else You Are Mad]

8. Next, they will want to go after...

Private citizens that voted for Hillary. The sad thing is that they are already planning on how they can do it.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Just like the Nazis cleaned out opposition party members.

[JHan]

10. Why is this man venerated by anyone ? He despises democracy.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

11. And theylll know who voted for Clinton how? So, no secret ballot anymore which is the

cornerstone of democracy? Well be all tracked and retaliated against now depending how we vote?

I know that sounds extreme and ridiculous but somebody's gonna have to help me out here because we are entering a new era of the extreme and ridiculous.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. They shouldn't know! Party registration is often public record, though.

Newt would probably like to fire anyone who isn't a registered Republican.

[IndianaDave]

14. Yeah - The Republicans are almost orgasmic

about destroying the mechanisms of government that help ordinary folks. Even though they lost seats in the House and in the Senate, and their presidential candidate lost the people's vote by over 2.8 million, they seem to be trying very hard to convince themselves that they have a mandate. Maybe they're counting the Russian Factor. Kompramat can inspire you to do bizarre shit. And that looks like their plan.

[spanone]

15. there's never been a bigger turd in or out of congress

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Yep, these are the folks who we should find common ground and compromise.

Because we know they will return it in kind.

[dembotoz]

17. stalin did live a nice purge

[alarimer]

18. It's none of anyone's business who they voted for.

Certainly not for a vindictive asshole like you, Newt. Civil Service rules exist now to prevent this sort of political retaliation.

Proving once again that Republicans are undemocratic and anti-american. I've always thought they were Fascists at heart.