OPINION:
The Donald Trump administration is establishing a new hiring plan for the federal government that will recognize competency, skill and experience more than skin color, sexual identification or pronoun preference as key factors of selection.
It’s called merit-based. What a concept, right? Truly, it’s only after too many years of Democrat leadership that the idea of hiring employees based on their talent — on what they can offer in terms of benefits for the organization — has become radical and discriminatory.
That used to be the normal way of thinking.
“The American people deserve a federal workforce dedicated to American values and efficient service,” said Vince Haley, the assistant to President Donald Trump for domestic policy, and Charles Ezell, acting director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, in a written statement reported by Newsmax.
“Yet,” they went on, “federal hiring criteria long ago abandoned any serious need for technical skills and adherence to the Constitution. Instead, the overly complex federal hiring system overemphasizes discriminatory ‘equity’ quota and too often resulted in the hiring of unfit, unskilled bureaucrats.”
And this equity approach to hiring, also called Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, has seeped from the public sector into the private sector, nearly destroying American capitalism in the process.
The new federal merit system will make sure only those with skill for the applied position are considered and ultimately hired. And this is not a small matter.
Democrats, along with their anti-free market socialist, Marxist and communist compadres, have been steadily degrading the idea of work to the point of making it a dirty word. They’ve taken out the honor and self-respect; they’ve criticized any suggestion that labor actually breeds character; they’ve pitted the white collar wealthy class against the blue collar working class; they’ve demanded pay, more pay and even more pay for little work, less work, no work at all — and in so doing, created an entitlement class of lazy and largely ignorant bottom feeders who see nothing wrong with living cradle to grave off tax payer money.
Work has become to many something that must be avoided at all costs.
This is a purposeful design of Democrats to make the masses more dependent on government for daily provisions; for all the costs associated with food, shelter, clothing, child care, college, health care; and to turn entitlements into rights. Once Democrats achieve that brainwashing, they’re then able to campaign on promises to provide these cradle-to-grave provisions and simultaneously pit any of their political opponents who buck this redistribution of wealth and entitlement nation approach to governance as enemies of the people — as the bad guys who will take away their rights.
Just look at the difficulty facing Republicans who want to reform Medicaid by booting off the illegals.
Democrats have successfully sold the narrative that taxpayer funded health care is a human right.
And this is all tied into the regard for, and role of, work in this country.
A nation of people who firmly believe that individual rights and liberties come from God, and that government only exists to preserve and protect those God-given rights and freedoms and is therefore limited in power, also understand that the system only survives if citizens are responsible for their own behaviors, actions, decisions, choices. Those who choose to work will reap the benefits of their work — those who choose to sit on the sidelines and bemoan work, will similarly see the less prosperous outcomes of their laziness.
Democrats can’t as easily control those who take responsibility for their own successes, though. So they seek to destroy the systems that benefit the independent-minded and self-sufficient. They seek to destroy competence. They seek more DEI, more tax paid entitlements, more woke policies that reward those who check boxes that advance leftist political agendas.
Enter this new merit based federal workforce hiring policy from the White House.
It’s not just a reform of federal hiring practices. It’s a reform of societal work expectations and mindsets. It’s a return of the country to more common sense days when dreams plus hard work mattered — a resurrection of an America, land of opportunity for all.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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