What this means in practice is a return to the very corrupt system we had before there was a professional civil service, in which the winning party uses federal jobs as a means of rewarding supporters.

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    3 days ago

    So I’m not sure where you’re from, but the feds don’t run local governments in the US, with some exceptions in DC.

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      It’s more a general statement of local, state and federal. Government workers never seem to get fired. Then again, that might not be true in some states and counties, so who knows.