Right, right!
Just as ridiculous as having judges with no training in some science "feel" that their opinion is a better judge than pure science and adjudicate for dumping more poison into a stream.
Oh wait, that's the opposite of what you want.
*You* want some politicians to overrule (probably due to bribes) what sober professionals in the field have assessed is the best path forward.
How can it be independent if the president can fire them for any reason at any time?
Couldn't he just get the people he wants in there? How "independent" is *that*?
Unfortunately, given how the laws are written, the president can fire and replace people he doesn't like, until the whole of the civil service does exactly what the president wants. He may not be a King as in able to declare Laws that Congress is supposed to (although he does, through EO, now) but he can have policies that in his own way enact the laws of Congress. Or just ignore them and hope Congress ignores your transgessions.
Takes too many votes to impeach, anyway. Any the boots on the ground, in every way, are doing what he wants, regardless of laws and congress.
President may not be a king but is surely acting like one.
Sorry, it's not.
Our government was set up with 3 and only 3 co-equal branches of government, not 4, not 5, not 67.
The civil service is part of the executive branch.
Thanks for playing and learn your civics.
Silly FCC, now it knows better!
As evidenced by the fact that is no longer has "independent" in its mission statement.
Except that would never happen, and the SC if necessary would make sure.
The laws are bought and paid for by Republicans now.
No, they expect the Supreme Court to back them up all all the court challenges made to Democratic rule.
Just wait, they won't let a Democratic president have nearly the same power as Trump has. Neither with the Democrat try to grab unconstitutional power.
"The executive branch should have zero authority over the civil service, which is intended to constitute a fourth co-equal branch of government"
Nope, no, and NO!
Your fourth co-equal branch of government would be the deep state, in that case.
There are only THREE equal branches of government and this nasty thought that the civil service should equal some fourth co-equal branch of government is just bunk.
This guy either socially engineered his way through a line, analyzed a weakness in the line, or time-traveled from the '90's not realizing we've set up an incompetent but totalizing police-state control grid to interpose every tiny aspect of our lives.
To be fair, "pay on board" is less applicable to airplanes than trains because seatbelts are important in turbulence.
That said, the lack of capacity is widely acknowledged to be a feature of wildly incompetent management.
We just heard they've started a new project to rewrite the air traffic control system for the umpteenth time (and billions and billions later) to hopefully allow for more frequent landings and departures. I fear it won't be specified for AI-assist takeoffs and landings and will be obsolete before it's done.
Better make some more 8" floppies.
It's good to have a second engine but it sure sounds like Gecko isn't long for this world.
You're already carrying the sphere!
